Susan Shapiro, THE BYLINE BIBLE

Susan Shapiro, THE BYLINE BIBLE

Susan: Pretty early on when I started, I got together with some friends for a writing group, people that I knew from NYU when I worked at The New Yorker as an editorial assistant. We all shared contacts. Within an amazingly short time, everybody was getting published. Everybody was helping each other. I thought, my friends and colleagues that are hoarding their contacts aren't getting anywhere. We were exploding. At that point, I decided I'm not going to be a hoarder. I'm going to share contacts because I thought that was good karma. It has been. Luckily, the classes are still filling up. People still want to write. The great thing is that there's a million more websites and webzines and different verticals of newspapers and magazines. There actually is probably more places that a beginner could start out, which is fantastic.