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- From: lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Publishing
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.001250.12534@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:12:50 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.182246.22772@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Organization: Society for the Appreciation of Janni Lee Simner
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- Get from the library or buy the 1993 WRITER'S MARKET. It is not the
- Bible, but it's the most accurate thing you can get.
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- Find markets in there that sound like they might print the sort of
- story you have written. Write to these markets for guidelines for
- submission. Include an SASE.
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- As soon as you finish a story, start the next one. This is important.
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- While waiting for those to return, find copies of as many of these
- markets as you can, read the stories, and see whether they are, in
- fact, publishing the sort of story you have written.
-
- Simultaineously, keep working on the next one.
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- When you have guidelines for at least the one you want to shoot for
- first (ideally, a paying market), print out your story in proper
- manuscript format. This is important. Mail it off. Include an SASE
- with sufficient postage (and or suffiient size) that the story can be
- returned -OR- clearly mark that "this is a disposable copy" and
- include a regular SASE. This is also important.
-
- Do not send any story to a market that doesn't print that sort of
- story. E.g., children's books to a publisher of military fiction (this
- really happens).
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- While waiting, keep writing the next story after that, and continue the
- market research.
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- When ever a story comes back, send it to the next market on your list.
- When you finish a story, send it to the top of the list.
-
- A rejection that says "This isn't right for us" means just that.
- Trying to read anything more into it is like trying to prophecy from
- entrails.
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- A letter tha say "We want to buy it" means just that. What comes after
- is out of the perview of this reply.
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- If you've reached this step you should be several stories beyond the
- first one. Keep writing.
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- As soon as you finish a story, start the next one. This is important.
-
- Anyone who wants you to pay them to print something should be
- dropkicked out the window, the name scratched permentantly off your
- list, and forgotten about.
-
- As soon as you finish a story, start the next one. This is important.
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- Larry "Keep sending them out. This is also important" Hammer
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