In line with our Spoonful of Chicken Soup tip last month, Write Life Workshops co-director, Rhonda Dragomir, had an idea for keeping up with submissions so we don’t submit a story more than once to a particular title. She suggests we use a spreadsheet to track submissions.

You may already be doing that, but be sure to keep up with the unique book title since Chicken Soup for the Soul repeats some themes every year or so. That can be hard when the titles are often similar and may change before the book comes out. If possible, use one column to record the release date of each book (found under Books – Coming Soon!) for each of your submissions.