Reply #15: Good luck [View All]

I like to analogize this process with Discovery Channel documentaries about predators in the wild. In those shows (the honest ones, at least) they tell you that your typical cheetah has to pounce at 20 antelopes before she actually bags one. (And, unless they have enough of a budget to follow her around for a week, the footage they'll show you is likely to be of an unsuccessful attempt.)

And short stories are tough! You might actually have better luck selling a novel, if you've got one in you.

Do you read the Making Light blog, by Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden? They're editors for Tor, and they write a lot about the agony and the ecstasy of trying to get published.