How to get published. Or not.

Here’s a list of tips I’ve collected over time. Help for your prose, pitfalls to avoid, how not to get ripped off.  Writing is mostly hard work.  If you read some of these pages, you’ll get a lot more back from your effort.

• http://www.superheronation.com/2010/08/05/14-reasons-your-manuscript-got-rejected-before-page-1/
• You are not a special snowflake.
• Erotica Readers and Writers Association (not well organized, some of the best advice is in previous years’ archives, so be sure to go look.
• The Pronouncements of Nick Mamatas:  Writing for publication and other ways of making money with writing.
• The Absolute Write Water Cooler forum of bewares and background checks.  Want to know if your publisher or agent is a rip-off artist?  Look here.
• Murder your Darlings, possibly the original quote.