Freelance writing submissions: stay in control of your sales

Many publishers say that they hate multiple submissions. (If you’re a new freelancer, you multiple-submit when you submit your work to more than one market at a time.)

Yes, that’s what they say.

Here’s how it works in real life: if you have a proposal which interests an editor, that editor will get in touch with you pronto. I’ve sent out email queries and had an editor contact me in minutes.

Generally speaking, it’s a mistake to send out THE SAME query/ proposal to multiple editors. Each magazine/ Web site/ publisher has different needs, and your queries should be crafted for a specific market.

However, it’s quite in order to send substantially the same query to multiple markets. Successful freelancers multiple-submit so that they can stay in control of their sales.

You need to know what you’ll be working on in upcoming weeks and months, and that means multiple submissions.

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