Writer's Relief's video: How Excerpts Can Get Your Novel Published: Kathleen McCormick Talks About Landing a Literary Agent

Getting excerpts from your book manuscript published in reputable literary journals is a great way to boost your novel’s appeal to literary agents—as writers like Kathleen McCormick know. But what is the best way to make submissions of your excerpt to literary journals and get them published? If you’ve written a novel and want to learn more about how and where to submit excerpts as short stories to literary editors for publication, Writer’s Relief can help (http://www.WritersRelief.com). As an author’s submission service, Writer’s Relief has been helping creative writers since 1994. A trusted name in the publishing industry, Writer’s Relief works with writers of full-length books, poetry, personal essays, and short stories. We help writers make submissions, managing the entire submission process. Preparing submissions of short stories that are book excerpts and selecting the right markets requires a lot of time and effort. Most clients of Writer’s Relief, like Kathleen McCormick, would rather be writing! That’s why they turn to Writer’s Relief for submission assistance. Writer’s Relief identifies the literary journals that are best suited to your book excerpt short story submission. You need a professional approach toward making submissions; that means creating a cover letter that keeps with publishing industry etiquette, formatting your writing to meet guidelines, and, finally, developing a schedule so that you submit regularly and in meaningful quantity. Writers like Kathleen McCormick know that successfully getting excerpts published in literary journals will make literary agents more interested in the novel. To get one acceptance, many writers must submit to about one hundred literary markets. Strong submissions require a lot of time, focus, and energy. But it is possible to be successful at submitting excerpts as short stories to literary journals. If you would like Writer’s Relief to manage your short story submissions on your behalf, we invite you to contact us today. Visit our website, call, or chat online—our publishing industry experts will be happy to talk with you about the best way to get your writing published and to land a literary agent. Learn more about how to become a client of Writer’s Relief (like Kathleen McCormick) and read more reviews and testimonials from writers who have been working with Writer’s Relief! Visit our website, writersrelief.com: http://writersrelief.com/. https://youtu.be/ZUATz7XKz4c