One of the things I have done is write a short story to submit to Analog and Asimov's magazines to help market the first volume of my Darkside Trilogy. In Discovery a young woman goes missing and is the subject of an investigation by the FBI. The FBI suspects she is the latest member of a group of African Americans who have mysteriously disappeared without a trace over the previous four decades.
In the book, all we know is that she disappeared. In this short story, I tell of the circumstances of her disappearance; her background, her current circumstance in life, her recruitment, and the details about her actual disappearance. If this gets published by either of the mags, I'm pretty sure it will drive readers to want to know more about the superstructure of the created universe and hence, the books.
Knowing about the scheduling of submissions to these kind of magazines I'm looking at this as a long-term strategy. I finished the story last month and am in the process of polishing it up for submission.
Anyone interested in a sample of the story?
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