1) Pls include your current email address on your submission.

2) Pls know that this year, an intern we trust will be reading your submission and responding to you personally about the strengths and weaknesses of your submission with respect to our primary goal: publishing the 13 most interesting short stories found in one book in a given year.

3) Pls know we believe any feedback this intern or we (Elizabeth Coffey and Mark Wish) give you is arguably valuable to you because it prevents you from submitting consecutive mss with the same crucial weakness, thus saving you time & money.

4) Pls know we edit the stories we buy thoroughly with one goal in mind: making every word of every COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES story as interesting and compelling as possible in the hearts of readers from all walks of life.

5) If you want to see how compelling COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES stories are, find our most recent volume here: https://amzn.to/4958AFN Check out all those 5-star reader ratings, which we believe prove last year's 13 COOLEST authors have connected well with readers worldwide by making sure their stories are *interesting*! (smiley face)

Thank you for reading and considering the above. & good luck!

Mark Wish

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1) Pls include your current email address on your submission.

2) Pls know that this year, an intern we trust will be the first one to read your submission and responding to you personally about the strengths and weaknesses of your submission with respect to our primary goal: publishing the 13 most interesting short stories to appear in one book in a given year.

3) Pls know we believe any feedback this intern or we (Elizabeth Coffey and Mark Wish) give you is arguably valuable to you because it prevents you from submitting consecutive mss with the same crucial weaknesses, thus saving you time & money.

4) Pls know we edit the stories we buy thoroughly with one goal in mind: making every word of every COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES story as interesting and compelling as possible in the hearts of readers from all walks of life.

5) If you want to appreciate the compelling nature of a COOLEST AMERICAN STORIES volume, find our most recent one here: https://amzn.to/4958AFN Check out all those 5-star reader ratings, which we believe prove last year's 13 COOLEST authors have connected well with readers worldwide by making sure their stories are *interesting*.

Thank you for reading and considering the above. And good luck!

Mark Wish

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