A: Kären Hess, the author or co-author of more than 30 trade books and college-level textbooks on a variety of topics including financial planning, dental marketing, art, literature, engineering, hospice care, reading, management and report writing:

"Many journals publish the years' article focus month by month."

A: Michael Lennie, Authoring Attorney and Literary Agent, Lennie Literary and Authors' Attorneys:

"Not to be flippant, but likely you don't. Yours would need to be a particularly time sensitive article to bump others already accepted, or to cause an editor to alter the theme or plan for an upcoming issue. The best you can do is either accept being placed in the queue, or contact several possible journals before submitting to find out informally the likely wait for publication. (Of course, you want to avoid appearing overly aggressive.)"

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