Same Character, Different Story

Certainly...

literary short stories need to be published first before a publisher will consider a collection.

I'm not sure about genre collections, but I expect it's the same.

I would just warn you to be careful what rights you sell if you want to make a collection, or turn the stories into a novel later.

As long as you retain the rights to reprint the stories down the road and assuming the stories are good enough to get published in the short fiction markets, the fact that you're writing stories about one character is probably an advantage when it comes to getting a collection published later. I'm guessing this based on the fact that collections are a harder sell in general, but a book of episodes concerning the same character may not have to be marketed as such.

WojoWojo13 said:

Question from a newbie--

I have multiple stories involving the same main character. They all stand alone and I'm going to be working on submitting theme soon. My question concerns what might happen to them down the road. Suppose (and this is a long way away) that I want to turn all of them into one longer work, or try to market them as a collection. Would getting them published seperately now help or hinder any future plans?

Thanks.

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Collections are almost impossible to sell unless the stories therein have first been published in magazines.