The Usual Path to Publication: 27 stories about 27 ways in

A collection of essays about the UNusual, amusing, heartbreaking, random, and quite perfectly crazy ways writers got their words out there. CONTENTS: Cherie Priest, "How I Skidded Sideways Into Publishing" Alma Alexander, "Don't Try This At Home" Mark Teppo, "Mapping Uncharted Terrain" Laura Anne Gilman, "Two Paths" Jim C. Hines, "The Goblin's Curse" Katharine Kerr, "That Long Winding Road" David D. Levine, "How to Sell a Novel in Only Fifteen Years" K. Tempest Bradford, "It All Happened Because of Netscape Navigator" Ada Palmer, "The Key to the Kingdom" Ken Scholes, "My Path to Publication, and My Other Path to Publication" Nancy Jane Moore, "The Meandering Path" Jennifer Brozek, "No One True Way" Rhiannon Held, "Timeline Key Points" Jo Walton, "Not Deluded: How I Sold My First Novel" Chris Dolley, "First Sale" Brenda Cooper, "With a Little Help from a Poet" Chaz Brenchley, "My First Book" Tina Connolly, "Going from Short Stories to Novels in 60,000 Easy Words" Randy Henderson, "My Finn Fancy Adventure in Publishing" Elizabeth Bourne, "The Gypsy Curse" John A. Pitts, "My Path to Publication" Mindy Klasky, "April Is the Cruelest Month" Amy Sterling Casil, "I Was Rejected, Then Sold the Same Story to the Same Editor!" Deborah J. Ross, "The Magic Phone Call" Phyllis Irene Radford, "My Road to Publishing, or, Tiptoeing Through Mine Fields" Sara Stamey, "How I Became a 'Real Author'" Trisha Leigh/Lyla Payne, "Making It" Afterword (Your Editor's Story)