I have a completely unprofessional and unmercenary way of choosing which anthologies I am going to submit stories to. What I do is, I peruse various guidelines and pick anthologies that have genres I am interested in writing, and especially anthologies for which I can write stories using characters I have already created and have an affinity for. I don't recommend this method for writers whose sole income is derived from writing, but if I can't figure out an angle that interests me I'm not going to bother writing a story I don't like.
Now, it still happens that not all editors are keen on my stories, but if they reject my work then, at least, I have one more story towards completing a collection of tales featuring the same character. So my time and effort were not wasted even if I don't make the sale.
Speaking of anthologies which I've written a story for, check out
Low Noon, an anthology of Weird West tales which includes
Five Disciples, a Lone Crow story. Lone Crow is an infamous Native American gunslinger who roamed the West (and a number of other places) and here we find him on the Barbary Coast hunting Shotgun Ferguson, a wanted killer. Throw in a witch and five disciples of the Immortals and you get havoc and destruction on Telegraph Hill. Low Noon is available on Amazon in both
hard copy and
Kindle formats. If you are a Prime Member of Amazon you can actually borrow a digital reading copy of Low Noon at no cost.
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