Kirk L. Shaw is senior editor for Covenant Communications. He has also done work for Boston publisher David R. Godine, Northwestern University Press, and the scientific journal Western North American Naturalist. During his career, he has produced and edited fiction (in most genres), memoirs, historical, art, gardening, gift, technical, scientific, scholarly, creative nonfiction, and other nonfiction. He enjoys writing short stories and especially relishes reading speculative fiction, historical and suspense novels, young adult, post-apocalyptic, and dystopia novels. He is looking for good suspense, historical, romance, adventure, and other fiction.
•Quick to communicate
•Humble
•Quick to learn (technology, process, skills, successful habits)
•Prolific
•Patient
•Well-versed in the market and process
•Dots I’s and crosses T’s: submits polished work
•Good negotiator and compromiser
•Picks the important “battles”
•Great public “presence”
•Good at networking, with contacts in the industry
•Has a good web presence and knows how to connect with readers
That's a good checklist!
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