Submissions for Among Animals will close December 15

I’m pleased to say that we’re on the home stretch toward choosing stories for the next edition of Among Animals. To give you a preview of what’s to come, we’ve got stories that feature cats and dogs and chickens and fish. And a mule. A kangaroo. A sea bear. A polar bear. And, of course, humans. We’re …

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How to get published

That’s a nice, attention-grabbing headline, but if course it’s nearly impossible to write a post that will fulfill this promise. That’s because every agent and every editor has his or her own interests, tastes, and moods — and a writer can never in a million years predict what those might be. As published writers know, …

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