In the wee small hours of the second of May, I pondered about whether to submit a middle grade story I was working on to Story Shop. It was the middle of the night but I wasn’t tired, so I sat and listened to the creaks and groans of my… more

So. You’ve spell checked, formatted, polished and primed your baby and now it’s off. It’s flown the nest to another in-box awaiting perusal. It’s gone to a house of gatekeepers that will know from the first sentence whether they want to read on or not. They will look over your… more