The Submission Desk: How to Prepare, Send, and Track Your Writing with Confidence

You know where you want to send your work. The Submission Desk shows you how to send it well.

This practical guide covers reading guidelines closely, formatting manuscripts in standard style, writing short and effective cover letters and bios, handling simultaneous submissions, and tracking everything you send. It explains response times and polite follow-ups, how to handle rejection and acceptance, and what rights such as FNASR, reprint, and electronic rights actually mean before you sign anything. You will also find contract basics, careful guidance on payment, a short primer on querying literary agents, and an etiquette guide.

It includes twelve copy-ready templates, a one-page pre-submit checklist, and a submission tracker spreadsheet (Excel, plus a CSV for Google Sheets or Numbers).

68-page PDF, US Letter, plus the tracker files. Calm, clear, and genuinely useful.

No. 2 in the Among The Letters Writer's Guides. Pair it with No. 1, The Opportunity Map.