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Publishing Tips Short Reads

by Madeline Smoot | Oct 16, 2017 | Buried in the Slush Pile, publishing, submissions, submitting manuscripts

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been experimenting with Short Reads, one of the sections on Kindle. Taking classes and conference speeches and other material, I have been slowly, but surely converting them into articles to publish using KDP (Kindle Direct...

Do’s and Some Don’t’s of Submitting

by Madeline Smoot | Apr 5, 2016 | Buried in the Slush Pile, children's book publishing, children's editing, submissions

Last week I got a submission. On the face this isn’t so odd. I get submissions all the time even though we aren’t taking unsolicited manuscripts over at CBAY right now. It wasn’t even unusual that this manuscript wasn’t for the kind of...
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