Submitting Work to Magazines

I recently decided to submit some of my work to a children’s magazine, which you may already know if you follow me on FaceBook. I followed the guidelines meticulously. I’m pretty familiar with their work, and I thought my submissions in fit well.

But apparently they did not. The editors were very kind about it and even sort of complimented one of my submissions, but ultimately wished me luck elsewhere.

Man, I have never had so many regections! I’m on to 7 of them now.

But I’m not too discouraged. They haven’t accepted any of my submissions… YET. And they may not, but they’re going to be very familiar with my work and my name.

Not my image. Credit to whomever it’s due.

So, this post isn’t to tell you how to submit to magazines, but rather to encourage you to do it. You may get several rejections or they may accept every submission you send them, but you won’t know until you give it a shot!

Put your hard work out there. I’m routing for you.

I had a few more author interviews lined up, but I haven’t heard from the interviewees. I should probably follow up on those. I’ll letcha know how that goes.

I will (hopefully) have a new book out soon. Fingers and toes crossed and prayin’ all goes well.

Y’all keep lookin’ up. XOXO

~T