#PennedPossibilities 629 — How did you break into publishing? (If you’re already published, of course.)
Following several years of fruitless trad publishing submissions to agents and publishers, I was at an SF convention one day and overheard an author I knew talking to someone about an upcoming novel. Evidently a publisher.
I hung around till they were done talking, then sidled up to the publisher and asked if he was open to direct submissions.
He was.
He's my publisher to this day.
Sandra Bond
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