In July 2013, I served as the “editor-in-residence” for the Codex Writing Group, which meant basically I was asking a month-long AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) interview. With Codex’s permission, I’m re-posting the Q&As here on my blog. The questions were all provided by members of Codex.

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What is the process of selling an anthology to a publisher? I understand how it works with novels, but how does the pitch process work? Do you have some of the authors on board already? Your agent takes your idea and approaches multiple publishers at once?

You’ve basically got it. You put together a proposal, then you recruit authors. Once you have a good number of established authors on board, your agent will shop the anthology to multiple publishers at once.

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