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Pitching a Platform: The Experiment
Submissions to literary mags can involve lots of rules, lots of waiting, and lots of rejection. Writers send their bright jewels of stories into the void to live or die on their literary merits, or on the hope that they’ll align with the magazine’s aesthetic.
But what if there’s a way to spice things up? What if we told them how we’ll help sell copies, so that we’re pitching not just our stories but also our platforms, connections, and willingness to pay for ads?
With nonfiction, if your platform is relevant to your piece’s content, it’s good to mention it. But with fiction, the consensus…
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