Take your first step to selling more stories and building a career as a short fiction writer-buy this book!In an engaging and conversational style, award-winning author Douglas Smith teaches how to market and sell short fiction-and much, much more.Even experienced writers will find value in these pages as Smith takes us on a journey that begins with making your first sale and ends with learning to use short stories to build a foundation for a career in fiction.The book covers the following:The Fundamentals: The different types of writers. The benefits of short fiction. Rights and licensing for short fiction.Selling Your Stories: Knowing when it's ready. Choosing the right market. Submitting stories. Mistakes to avoid. How editors select stories (and why). Dealing with rejections. When to give up on a story.After a Sale: Short fiction contracts. Working with an editor. What your first sale means. Dealing with reviews.A Writer's Magic Bakery: Selling reprints. Selling in foreign languages. Selling audio rights. Selling a collection. The indie option.As You Become Established: How to leverage your short fiction. Discoverability tools and promotion. Career progression in short fiction.With an introduction by the multi-award winning author and editor, Kristine Kathryn Rusch:"We short story writers have needed a book like this for decades. I'm glad Doug decided to write it. Read and reread this volume. Because you'll learn something each time you do. And take Do...