Publishing A Collection

First question: may be advisable, and some publishers may ask you too. Not necessarily though. Second question: no particular ingredient. It's just the editors' pick of the day, and you could impress them in any number of ways. ~ I'll Show You Tyrants * Fuselit * The Prowl Log * Woe's Woe

Jack Cade's spot on. I would add that if I were publishing a book, however, I would choose to take the work off here myself - why try and sell it and have it available for here, free? Maybe leave a taster, but not the lot. It can be googled here. For general comps / magazines, etc, see Jack's post. Again, like Jack says, there are many ways to impress the reader. I cherry things I like and that's hard to define, but I can tell you, I don't cherry things that are guilty of the following: - Consistently bad grammar, especially on speech - Poetry that sounds like it's written by a 13 year old - Bad rhyming poetry; I can't take it seriously - Lack of imagination in delivery, espcially where the theme is a road well-worn (and most are) - If you've just posted more than 3 things back to back, and they're not very interesting. Happy to feedback on any specific pieces, feel free to email me. I *will* be blunt though. Ben

"If poems have been published on the ABCtales website, would the writers be required to remove these poems before publishing them in book form at a later date?" I this is less llikely to be necessary with poems that with, for example, a novel. I think all the poems in my book(let) were still on ABCtales when it was published. The publisher didn't ask about this and wouldn't have cared either way - it didn't make publishing my poems any more or less commercially viable than it would've been otherwise.