Publishing Single Short Stories

Originally posted on Lit World Interviews:

There are lots and lots of people who buy and read mainly stand alone short stories. Probably because of the speed of life these days. This came as a big surprise to me when I published my first one. There are short story connoisseurs who follow authors who only publish short, and are considered masters of the art. I thought it was a cop out to be honest ��� a way of publishing something a lot easier than a novel length book, because I thought that anyone can bang out a short story. There���s an art to creating a good short though, so that���s not entirely true. I���ve always enjoyed reading them and have piles of anthologies and singles on my Kindle, written by authors from debuts to Stephen King. A short story must still be a complete tale, with good flow, plot, structure and ending. In some ways getting���

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