Here's a submissions tip. I have given it before, but I can't say it enough.
If you have never worked with an editor before, then applying for the MOST PAGES an anthology will accept is going to be an incredibly hard sell, especially because we have to keep to specific page counts.
You are much better off going to the LOWEST end of the submission guideline, as it's much easier to take a flier on a story that is two pages than it is to take a flier on an eight-page story which is going to be a centerpiece story of the book.
I looked over a bunch of submissions this morning, and I'll be honest, I pretty much passed through EVERYONE who did a two-page story from the ones my co-editor culled, because...well...it's easy to take a flier on a two-page story.
A couple of reasons why:
If it's not great, then I only have to pay a kill fee for two pages, not eight.
If it's pretty good but not great then it's only two pages.
If it's awesome then I just found a collaborator who I'm able to work with for …
