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Writer’s Glossary, Part III: The Business of Writing
By Stephanie Lenz (Baker) This is the third installment in the ongoing Writer’s Glossary series. Part I covered Elements of Fiction Construction and Part II covered Genres, Subgenres and Supergenres....
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A Guide to Designing Assignments that Require Students to Submit their Work...
By Theryn Fleming (Beaver) Because Toasted Cheese is open to new and unpublished writers, we often receive submissions from students at all levels (graduate, undergraduate, high school, and...
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“You Shortlisted My Submission… Why Didn’t it Make the Final Cut?”
By Theryn Fleming (Beaver) I want to begin this article with a word of encouragement. Please don’t give up on Toasted Cheese as a venue because your work is rejected once (twice, three times…). Be...
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Tales From the Inbox: Baker & Beaver Discuss First Reading
By Stephanie Lenz (Baker) & Theryn Fleming (Beaver) Theryn: Let me start with this. It annoys me when people fail to put “submission” in their subject line and/or submit to the wrong address...
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Find the Right Social Media for You
By Billiard In “Negotiating Social Media for Writers,” we asked Jim C. Hines, Mary Robinette Kowal and Kameron Hurley their advice to writers regarding their internet/social media presence, and this...
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Negotiating Social Media for Writers: A Conversation With Jim C. Hines, Mary...
By Erin Bellavia (Billiard) “The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.” —Peter Singer The internet can be both a blessing and a curse, giving us a...
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Fifteen Ways to Get Your Submission Into My “No” Folder
By Stephanie Lenz (Baker) Simultaneously submit. Even once. Assume that your lack of publication credits will mean automatic rejection. Assume that your age has any bearing on whether your story is...
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Track Your Submissions
By Baker If you haven’t already, set up a way to track your submissions. Duotrope’s submission tracker used to be free but when Duotrope went pay, so did the submission tracker. Membership is $5 per...
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9 Years, 9 Percent: A Look at Toasted Cheese’s Submission, Rejection &...
By Stephanie Lenz (Baker) Inspired by other journals that do monthly, quarterly, or yearly public posts about their submissions, I did some very rough and dirty math about Toasted Cheese submissions...
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Elements of Style
By Beaver Some writers avoid social media like the plague, coming up with all manner of reasons why it’s detrimental to their writing (and everyone else’s). Other writers enthusiastically embrace it,...
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