spark of life
5th May 2017 | for Creatives | sci-fi, fantasy, writing, reaching your audience, magazines, Orson Scott Card |
"New writers are, if anything, even more welcome in the magazines. The appetite for new writers in the field of speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy) is still enormous. If you write competently and if your story has any spark of life, you will sell it."
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