If, after writing that first story, your intention i to toss the manuscript into a bottom dresser drawer and forget it, this guide is not for you! If, however, it is your intention to market the story you have labored so long to produce, then it is important that you use the information in this guide as an aid in doing so. The information here will assist you in cleaning and polishing your prose and finding the proper market for it.

It would be advisable to purchase this guide if: *Your first draft is rife with grammatical errors that would glare at an editor. *Your story plot-line has fatal or near-fatal flaws in its logic. *The story line is either too vague or has too many redundancies. *You feel it is good enough to sell were it to be properly edited for grammar and spelling. *You are clueless on submission procedure.