Considerations When Compiling or Submitting to Anthologies

Writer/Editor/Publishing Consultant Ami McConnell Shares Some Best Practices for Submitting to Anthologies

EPISODE 56)

WriterFest Founder/Writer/Editor/Publishing Consultant/Talent Matcher-Upper Ami McConnell returns to teach us all some best practices for submitting to anthologies. And she teaches us some of her behind the scenes considerations when compiling one.

OUR HOSTS GET OUT OF THEIR BUBBLE

Emily relaxes, writes, and reports on the alligator situation in Florida.

Jon Meyers attends a live Q&A session with an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who, well… you just listen and make up your own mind.

YOU RESPOND!

We have three responses from viewers this episode — but you have to wait until THE FINAL ACT this week. Suspense!

#HEYJONMEYERS

Baby sign language. It’s a thing.

WEEK THIRTEEN OF WHY IS THIS BABY CRYING?

Jon Meyers teaches Emily yet another reason her child might be crying. Actually the intention is to increase awareness of reasons other children have cried so that Emily can avoid these situations once her child is born.

Of course if he learns sign language, he can just tell her himself.

CALL TO ACTION

Ami challenges you to collaborate with someone, a friend, a stranger, anybody — on a creative project, a bananagram, a drawing, anything!

Let us know how it goes or what you plan to do by responding in our show notes at writebettertogether.com/podcast, or in the comments on YouTube, Facebook, X, or Instagram.

THE FINAL ACT:

Matchy Matchy Flashy Flashy. Sheila Gunlock, Emily “Mily” Rhinelander, and David Corbly submitted some flash fiction to a previous Call to Action, and Emily (Brooks) has to match each of them to a random snippet from their Viewer Response.

LINKS

GUEST LINKS

AMI McCONNELL’s website: https://www.amimcconnell.com/

AMI McCONNELL’s beautiful anthology, Faithful Daughter: True, Inspiring Stories Celebrating a Mother’s Legacy and Love, via Amazon: https://amzn.to/4lxjKcj

WRITERFEST’s website: https://www.writerfestnashville.com/

OUR LINKS

Emily’s newest resource: Writing Women: Creating and Describing Compelling Female Characters.

Here’s the story referenced by Jon Meyers about the guy who, last February, kayaked into a whale’s stomach, or mouth, somehow. There’s even a video! https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c2k5e14vwx4o

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