The Writer’s Market

The Writer’s Market is to aspiring writers what seed catalogs are to aspiring gardeners-something to drool over and think about and have long, usually unrealistic, fantasies about.  I bought my first Writer’s Market when I was in high school, submitted my first short stories and poems as quickly as I could roll them out of my old manual typewriter.  What a lovely sound those keys made as they slapped the paper.  I miss that once in a while.  I soon moved up to an electric typewriter.  I still refer to the Return key and get blank stares from people who…

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