Writer's Relief's video: Help Publishing Short Stories: How Mike Cohen Found Help Publishing Short Stories

Want help publishing short stories? You’re not alone. Mike Cohen is a lawyer who decided to pursue his passion for writing short stories. He read, studied, and wrote—until one day he was ready to start publishing short stories. But with a busy work and family life, he knew he needed help publishing short stories. Enter Writer’s Relief (http://www.WritersRelief.com). Writer’s Relief has been helping writers publish short stories (and other short fiction) since 1994. We also help writers secure publication (via literary agency queries) for short story collections and books of short stories. We also help poets and novelists get published. Writer’s Relief handles our clients’ short story submissions. We begin by developing a short story submission strategy that will be efficient and effective. We help short story writers get published in literary magazines and journals, and we carefully research literary markets that are “just right” for our authors’ short stories. We also write cover and query letters, track editorial comments and submission responses, proofread and format to publishing industry standards, and advise on the many questions that come up when you need help publishing short stories. To secure Writer’s Relief’s help publishing short stories in literary magazines, potential clients my first submit a writing sample to our Review Board. An evaluation will determine whether a writer’s short stories are appropriate for our submission assistance program. Mike Cohen’s initial short story was accepted by the Review Board, and his submission team was able to find the perfect literary magazine for the story. Now—after finding help publishing short stories with Writer’s Relief—Mike Cohen's short fiction work has appeared in Adelaide Literary Magazine, American Writers Review, FRiGG, The North Dakota Quarterly, Penmen Review, Umbrella Factory Magazine, The Furious Gazelle Magazine and STORGY Magazine. An excerpt from chapter one of Mike’s 2017 Novel, Rivertown Heroes, will appear in The Evening Street Review. Mike’s book of short stories, The Three of Us, was released in 2018. But that’s just an abridged version of his author bio. Once Mike Cohen found help publishing short stories, he was freed up to dedicate more of his time to writing, reading, and studying his short fiction craft. Writer’s Relief worries about the research and paperwork of making submissions to literary journals; our clients, like Mike Cohen, can focus on doing what they do best: writing short stories. To learn more about how Writer’s Relief can with publishing short stories in literary magazines, please visit our website. https://youtu.be/9NbMX4vIIQw