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- Internet Writer Resources
- =========================
-
- Compiled/Edited/Maintained by L. Detweiler
- <ld231782@longs.LANCE.colostate.edu>
-
- This document is primarily a list of magazines and various outlets
- accepting submissions by email, and branching out into Internet
- resources for the writer in general. Thanks to everyone who has
- responded. This list will be updated and maintained as long as *you*
- send in updates and improvements. See the bottom for information on
- distribution.
-
-
- Contents
- --------
-
- - How to Submit
- - Electronic Submissions List
- - MCI Mail Magazine addresses
- - A Note to Writers
- - A Note to Editors
- - A Vision of the Future
- - The FAQ as the Future
- - Other Electronic Resources
- - CRAM
- - Most Wanted List
- - Credits
- - Change History
- - Distribution
-
-
- How to Submit
- =============
-
- These addresses are provided through the courtesy of the publisher for
- the purpose of submitting queries or complete manuscripts. In all cases
- it is best to first *query* the publisher with a short description of
- your article idea or outline of an already-written article. In your
- query, you should address how your article fits in with the magazine's
- scope and focus. If you are querying multiple editors, do this for
- each. Make sure that you are familiar with their general magazine
- content enough to avoid wasting their time with irrelevent pieces or
- ones that have just recently been covered. If the entry states that the
- magazine has writer's guidelines, ask the editor for those first and
- adhere to them.
-
- Multiple submissions: in general, if you want to adhere to the utmost
- standards of politeness, avoid multiple simultaneous submissions.
- Particularly with email you generally receive a very rapid turnaround,
- so that the necessity of multiple submissions is decreased. If you
- absolutely must attempt simultaneous submissions, and one editor accepts
- an article, immediately email to all others that you are withdrawing
- the article. Explicitly noting the status of your submission as
- exclusive or simultaneous is a good idea. Do not carbon copy send a
- single article with no individual attention to the receiving editors.
-
- If you learned of the email address from this source, please tell the
- editor that. It will encourage the editor to maintain the capability,
- spur other editors to set up their own email addresses, and in turn help
- expand your own list of possible and alternative outlets for your
- writing.
-
-
- Electronic Submissions List
- ===========================
-
- These magazines are published monthly unless otherwise noted. The
- `content' category describes the general content and requested writing.
- `compensation' describes the remuneration policies (if any). `rights'
- describes the rights to the material that are sold to the publisher.
- `contact' is the email address of the publisher, editor, or the general
- submission address.
-
- Note: the accuracy of this list is not guaranteed. In particular, the
- rights involved in a particular `sale' may be variable or negotiable.
- Make sure you understand the terms of the arrangement with the
- publisher. If you are interested in only certain kinds of contracts
- (such as retaining the copyright, which is usual the usual case but not
- guaranteed) be sure to tell the editor.
-
- - Alternate Hilarities
-
- Type: magazine of humor in speculative fiction
- Content: humorous pieces from all areas of the speculative fiction
- field, horror, science fiction and fantasy of all types. ``We're
- looking for stories ranging in length from 1 to 5k words. We like to
- work with original stories, but reprints are OK if the author still
- holds the rights. The main point is to be funny.''
- Compensation: Payment for first time publication will be 1 cent a
- word (and a one copy). Payment for reprints is two copies.
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: ``We're more likely to buy something that's consistently
- funny over something that's acceptable to all audiences.'' E-mail
- submissions preferred.
- Contact: Talestwiceto@Genie.geis.com (Co-Editors: Alexandra Zale,
- Devon Tavern)
-
- - The Blind Spot
-
- Type: small press 'zine (?)
- Content: Duke's fantasy, SF, and horror fiction. 10K words or
- less. Artwork.
- Compensation: $10 plus contributors copies.
- Rights: (?)
- Contact: awhit@acpub.duke.edu (Andy Whitfield)
-
- - Circlet Press
-
- Type: small press 'zine, published anthologies (?)
- Content: Erotic science fiction and fantasy. Short stories
- primarily under 10K words. Anthologies. Other subcategories.
- Compensation: half-cent per word. Royalties for single-author
- anthologies negotiated on cases by case basis.
- Rights: one-time anthology rights.
- Comments: Write for guidelines or booklist. Query first.
- Contact: ctan@world.std.com
-
- - Claustrophobia
-
- Type: small press newsletter
- Content: social issues, privacy (?)
- Compensation: no money, but `credit, exposure, samples for
- portfolio'
- Rights: nonsimultaneous publication.
- Contact: dbruedig@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-
- - CONNECT
-
- Type: small press magazine
- Content: ``Covering the major commercial online services,
- Internet/Usenet and smaller Bulletin Board System networks, CONNECT
- focuses on telecommunications from a user-oriented perspective.''
- Compensation: ``Authors are paid a flat rate of $75 for
- mini-reviews. Authors are paid between $100 and $300 for feature
- articles, depending on the length, subject matter and newsworthiness
- of the article. The longer the article and the more complex the
- subject matter, typically, the more the payment for the
- submission.''
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: seeks articles and reviews.
- Contact: pegasus@grex.ann-arbor.mi.US
-
- - CYBERSPACE VANGUARD
-
- Type: electronic magazine
- Content: ``News and Views of the Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Universe carries interviews, feature articles, and lots'o'news on
- current happenings on the science fiction, fantasy, animation, and
- comics genres.''
- Compensation: ``Right now we cannot pay our writers, but we are trying
- to line up a publisher for a paper version, and once that happens we
- will be attempting to pay people.''
- Rights: ``We "buy" one-time rights, but the remuneration policy may
- change at any time.''
- Comments: ``We are seeking articles and interviews from writers who
- can be fun without being long-winded. Write for guidelines, but in
- the meantime a query is preferred to an article.'' See
- etext.archive.umich.edu: /pub/Zines/Cyberspace.Vanguard for past
- issues.
- Contact: Submissions should be send to xx133@cleveland.freenet.edu.
- Other correspondence should be sent to cn577@cleveland.freenet.edu.
-
- - FringeWare Review
-
- Type: electronic magazine
- Content: ``Our centroid (th/m)eme [is] "Building Community around a
- Fringe Marketplace'' ``sidebars, tutorials, interviews and reviews,
- with tasty, mind-twisting fiction as synthesis''
- Compensation: ``We pay up to US$0.03 per word plus byline and two
- copies of each issue in which you appear. We pay the full amount for
- work we choose to run which: (a) hasn't appeared elsewhere, (b) fits
- within our issues' themes, (c) and meets word count criteria; also,
- you must provide an email address for the byline. Otherwise, we'll
- negotiate. We pay US$20 per page for artwork and comix, or do
- trade-outs as mentioned above. In the case of comix, we do not need
- the work to be first run.''
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: ``We limit our magazine to 48 pages, at least 35% of
- which contains catalog, subvertising, editorials, letters and
- administrivia, so writers only have 25-odd pages, less artwork and
- comix, in which to express their collective brilliance. We seek
- terse, opinionated, first-person, active-voice, period.''
- Contact: <fringeware@wixer.bga.com>
-
- - GRIST
-
- Type: electronic magazine
- Content: a magazine of poetry, prose, essays and articles
- Compensation: (?)
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: Well-crafted prose, experimental prose, discussions of
- network prose, interactive/collaborative language, all considered
- and solicited for publication. FTP or Gopher to
- etext.archive.umich.edu/pub/Poetry/Grist
- Contact: mail subscriptions and work submissions to
- <fowler@phantom.com>.
-
- - InterText
-
- Type: bi-monthly electronic fiction magazine
- Content: Short stories primarily under 15,000 words, though
- exceptions can be made. Not genre-specific -- stories from all
- genres welcome. Write for guidelines if needed.
- Compensation: publication & exposure to ~3000 subscribers on
- 6 continents.
- Rights: One-time publication; all copyrights revert to authors
- immediately.
- Comments: FTP to network.ucsd.edu (128.54.16.3) in /intertext Or
- Gopher to ocf.berkeley.edu in OCF On-Line Library -> Fiction ->
- InterText On the World-Wide Web, point your WWW browser to
- file://network.ucsd.edu/intertext/other_formats/HTML/ITtoc.html
- Contact: <intertxt@network.ucsd.edu> Editor: Jason Snell
-
- - The Lighthouse
-
- Type: monthly magazine, email version
- Content: focuses on various forms of contemporary Christian music
- (Rock to Rap to Metal to Adult Contemporary to Alternative to
- Dance). Artist spotlights and album reviews. The ministry of
- Christian music.
- Compensation: `A BIG thank you'
- Rights: no exclusive rights requested
- Comments: write for more details and text-only email version.
- Contact: JWS@SABINE.PSU.EDU
-
- - OtherRealms
-
- Type: Science Fiction/Fantasy Reviewzine
- Content: ``50% Reviews of SF/F. 30% other non-fiction about SF/F.
- 20% commentary and other interesting stuff at whim of editor.''
- Compensation: contributor copy
- Rights: ``one-time non-exclusive rights on reviews. Prefer first
- rights on other material, but we can talk.''
- Comments: ``preferred review length 500-1000 words. Criticism
- accepted, but it better be well-written and well-informed. Send
- reviews directly. Query on all other material (and read the zine
- first to get a feel for what I'm looking for. Published
- approximately twice a year (with no electronic edition). Sample
- issues on request.''
- Contact: chuq@apple.com
-
- - Paladin Science Fiction Group
-
- Type: anthologies and novels
- Content: ``Fiction anthologies in science fiction, fantasy, and
- horror for mature readers; erotic science fiction, fantasy, and
- horror for adult readers. Length: supershort to novella. Maximum 10K
- words. Novels in science fiction, fantasy and horror 40K-60K words
- for general to mature audience.''
- Compensation: One cent per word, two copies for poetry.
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: Do not submit without reading guidelines first. Both
- electronic queries and simultaneous submissions OK. No electronic
- submissions in North America.
- Contact: S G Johnson <corsair@camelot.com>
-
- - Quanta
-
- Type: online magazine
- Content: `science fiction by amateur and professional authors around
- the world and across the net.'
- Compensation: publication & exposure to ~2200 subscribers
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: ASCII and Postcript versions. See ftp.eff.org:
- /journals/Quanta
- Contact: submissions to <quanta@andrew.cmu.edu>.
-
- - Sixth Dragon (prev. Mushroom Opera)
-
- Type: student-run magazine published twice a year at Michigan State
- U. at Lansing
- Content: generally science fiction and fantasy
- Compensation: contibutor's copy
- Rights: (?)
- Contact: David Scott Martin <martind@student.msu.edu> or
- <bard@cemvax.msu.edu>
-
- - Sound News and Arts
-
- Type: local small press 'zine
- Content: ``Accept writing of ALL types, mainly about arts, music and
- interviews with interesting and innovative people. Also accept
- poetry, short stories and artwork. SOUND is a local publication and
- is pretty open content-wise. Geared toward the younger, more
- energetic crowd.''
- Compensation: ``No payment as of yet (save for a few free issues),
- planned payment in late '93.''
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: uuencoded or FTPed submissions to sunsite.unc.edu in the
- /pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS/Incoming directory). Submissions
- should be in ASCII text format (or TIF, GIF or JPEG for pictures.
- Contact: sound-na@unomaha.edu (or ed@sunsite.unc.edu)
-
- - The TRINCOLL JOURNAL
-
- Type: liberal Arts Multimedia Magazine
- Content: The TRINCOLL Journal is a liberal Arts Multimedia Magazine
- created by students from Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut.
- The Journal is a weekly publication with its writing and art work
- created by readers from around the world.
- Compensation: (?)
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: To view the Journal use your favorite WWW browser to open
- a URL to: http://www.trincoll.edu/homepage.html FTP:
- troy.trincoll.edu /pub/incoming/TrincollJournal
- sumex-aim.stanford.edu /info-mac/per
- Contact: <journal@trincoll.edu> Peter Adams, Paul Tedesco Editors
-
- - Wilde Oaks
-
- Type: literary journal
- Content: South Bay (San Jose, CA) Lesbian and Gay Community Center
- literary journal. Accepts fiction (less than 6K words preferred),
- prose, poety, photography, and artwork from gay, Lesbian, bisexual,
- transgender, or supportive people. Erotica is okay, but no
- pornography. Submission guidelines are available.
- Compensation: One contributor copy
- Rights: One-time publication rights
- Contact: jrd@frame.com (Jim Drew)
-
- - Writer's Nook News
-
- Type: national quarterly magazine
- Content: ``dedicated to giving freelance writers specific
- information for their immediate practical use in getting published
- and staying published. It contains news; writing tips; book reviews;
- legislative/tax updates; conference, contest, and market listing;
- and various related topics.''
- Compensation: ``The Nook News pays 6 cents per word on acceptance
- for First North American Serial Rights to short, pithy articles (400
- words max.) on the writing experience.''
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: ``Simultaneous submissions will be rejected. Articles
- must be specific, terse, and contain information my readers can put
- to immediate, practical use. Avoid third person whenever possible.
- Include a short bio (25 words or so, not a resume) with your
- submission.''
- Contact: <comprophet@delphi.com> (Eugene Ortiz, Publisher)
-
- - WIRED
-
- Type: monthly national magazine
- Content: Cutting edge computer technology, `techno-culture
- and hardware' (?)
- Compensation: (?)
- Rights: (?)
- Comments: Write for guidelines.
- Contact: submissions@wired.com, editor@wired.com
-
-
- MCI Magazine Addresses
- ======================
-
- The following entries were retreived from the public MCI electronic
- yellow pages. They are being included in this FAQ with *no* prior
- warning to the publishers. The FAQ author has emailed a few of them with
- no result. `Your mileage may vary.' The author would greatly like to
- receive more information (contents, compensation, rights, comments) on
- these outlets to move the entries into the previous section, and hear of
- any `success stories' in receiving *any* response (even simple
- submission guidelines) from these addresses.
-
- To send mail to these addresses from the internet, use the form
- [x]@mcimail.com where [x] is the ID given below. DO NOT INCLUDE THE
- HYPHEN in the address.
-
- (Generated ~8/93)
-
- `MAGAZINE' search
-
- MCI ID Name Organization Location
- 596-6620 Avionics Magazine Avionics Magazi Potomac, MD
- 371-5189 Biotechnology Magazine Nature Publishi New York, NY
- 250-0135 BYTE Magazine Peterborough, N
- 411-2547 C Magazine Softbank Corp JAPAN
- 323-9250 CIO Magazine CIO Magazine Framingham, MA
- 379-1932 Computer Graphics World Ma Computer Graphi Westford, MA
- 324-3008 Computer Shopper Magazine Computer Shoppe Titusville, FL
- 393-3639 ComputerLand Magazine Pleasanton, CA
- 339-5237 CPI Purchasing Magazine Cahners Publish Newton, MA
- 280-8275 Data Based Advisor Magazin Data Based Advi San Diego, CA
- 416-2157 Data Communications Magazi McGraw Hill New York, NY
- 335-7244 DBMS Magazine DBMS/PCA San Mateo, CA
- 477-1898 Dyna Magazine Softbank Corpor JAPAN
- 391-5774 EDN Magazine EDN Magazine BLANK
- 427-6021 Electronic Products Magazi Electronic Prod Garden City, NY
- 582-3736 Epicurean Magazine Epicurean Magaz San Fernand, CA
- 601-1044 Food Product Design Magazi Food Product De Northbrook, IL
- 312-3728 Foreign Policy Magazine Foreign Policy Washington, DC
- 313-3729 Foreign Policy Magazine Foreign Policy Washington, DC
- 598-8565 Fortune Magazine Fortune Magazin San Francis, CA
- 442-3685 Frequent Flyer Magazine Frequent Flyer New York NY
- 312-4471 IN Magazine MCIC Washington DC
- 319-3071 Interior Design Magazine Interior Design New York, NY
- 376-9627 Interiors Magazine Interiors Magaz New York, NY
- REMOTE 567-3913 LAN Magazine Computer Pubs AUSTRALIA
- 503-2941 Laser Focus World Magazine Laser Focus Wor Westford, MA
- 422-5920 MacUser Magazine MacUser Foster City CA
- 355-9510 Maintenance Technology Mag Maintenance Tec Barrington, IL
- 564-3622 Metroland Magazine Metroland Magaz Albany, NY
- 387-0963 Modern Motor Magazine Modern Motor Ma Australia
- 445-5851 NewMedia Magazine San Mateo, CA
- 318-3782 Omni Magazine New York, NY
- 468-2934 Packaging Magazine Cahners Publish Des Plaines IL
- 157-9301 PC Magazine PC Magazine New York, NY
- 447-7466 Popular Science Magazine Popular Science New York Ny
- 413-3658 Prepared Foods Magazine Prepared Foods Chicago, IL
- 392-5775 Purchasing Magazine Purchasing Maga BLANK
- 514-3313 Risk Magazine Ltd. Risk Magazine L Chicago, IL
- 500-0238 Sail Magazine Cahners Newton MA
- 317-3309 Smithsonian Magazine Smithsonian Mag Washington, DC
- 277-9362 Software Magazine Software Magazi Westboro, MA
- 556-3896 Solutions PC Magazine PC Magazine New York NY
- 103-5034 Teleconnect Magazine New York, NY
- 494-4254 Telephony Magazine Chicago, IL
- 402-6156 The Kfar Chabad Weekly Mag Tzeirei Chabad ISRAEL
- 519-6247 Treasury Magazine Treasury Magazi Boston, MA
- 380-3905 Turbo Magazine Kipp E. Kington Huntington Beac
- 424-1434 Variety Magazine Variety Magazin Lakebluff IL
-
- `PUBLISHING' search
-
- MCI ID Name Organization Location
- 527-0613 A I Publishing A I Publishing Japan
- 586-1732 American International Pub American Int'l Harrison, NY
- 471-0440 Axel Springer Japan Publis Tokyo
- 543-0709 Bloc Publishing Bloc Publishing Coral Gables, F
- 561-9762 Brana Publishing Brana Publishin Pacific Pal, CA
- 594-5629 Cardmember Publishing Corp Stamford, CT
- 531-2388 CFO Publishing Corp. CFO Publishing Boston, MA
- 583-9841 Clark Publishing Inc. Clark Publishin Lexington, KY
- 458-2083 Cowles Publishing Company Cowles Publishi Spokane, WA
- 589-5427 First Image Demand Publish Norcross, GA
- 572-8673 HHO Publishing HHO Publishing Los Angeles, CA
- 220-0783 Hitchcock Publishing Co. Hitchcock Publi Carol Stream IL
- 497-2767 Hortideas Publishing Gravel Switch
- 581-6677 Indemp Publishing Indemp Publishi Casa Grande, AZ
- 294-3992 Information Publishing Cor Info Publishing Houston, TX
- 293-5313 Isthmus Publishing Company Isthmus Publish Madison, WI
- 422-1911 Kluwer Academic Publishing Kluwer Academic Norwell, MA
- 266-2543 Kohgaku-Sha Publishing Co. Kohgaku-Sha Pub JAPAN
- 380-2809 Laurin Publishing Co., Inc Laurin Publishi Pittsfield, MA
- 583-5230 Linmore Publishing Inc. Linmore Publish Barrington, IL
- 399-2652 Macmillan Computer Publish Macmillan Compu Carmel, IN
- 452-8706 Malakoff Publishing Malakoff Publis Shepherdstown
- 605-4375 Meister Publishing Meister Publish Willoughby, OH
- 273-9287 M.M. Cole Publishing Co. M.M. Cole Publi Chicago, IL
- 557-0450 Mondadori Publishing Mondadori Publi New York, NY
- 294-3756 M&T Publishing Administration Redwood City
- 292-3754 M&T Publishing Pete May Redwood City
- 489-8359 Nelson Publishing Nokomis, FL
- 350-9803 Olympia Publishing, Inc. Olympia Publish Little Rock, AR
- 332-7597 Phillips Publishing - Potomac, MD
- 542-5761 Phillips Publishing Phillips Publis Potomac, MD
- 245-8579 Pinpoint Publishing PINPOINT Publis Glen Ellen, CA
- 602-7175 Pinpoint Publishing Santa Rosa, CA
- 533-8478 PRENTICE HALL COMPUTER PUB PRENTICE HALL C CARMEL, IN
- 297-6976 Roger Wagner Publishing. I Roger Wagner Pu Santee, CA
- 340-4180 Rush Franklin Publishing Rush Franklin P Douglaston, NY
- 289-9011 Software Publishing Corpor P.R. Dept. Mt. View
- 273-0600 Software Publishing Corpor Quarterly Rept. Mt. View CA
- 264-0158 Software Publishing Corpor Software Publ Mt. View
- 566-5907 Spencer & Associates Publi Spencer & Assoc Melville, NY
- 426-7566 Step-By-Step Publishing PEORIA, IL
- 586-7891 Surburban Publishing Surburban Wayne, PA
- 493-3568 The Wichita Eagle & Beacon Wichita, KS
- 581-5678 Troy Publishing Troy Publishing Troy, NY
- 559-7594 UpClose Publishing El Granola, CA
- 509-3687 Walsworth Publishing Co., Marcelini, MO
- 240-3935 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 241-3936 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 242-3940 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 243-3938 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 243-3941 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 244-3942 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 245-3927 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 245-3930 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 246-3928 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 247-3932 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 248-3933 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 249-3918 West Publishing Company St. Paul Eagan, MN
- 273-5540 West Publishing Company Schoolbooks St. Paul, MN
- 284-6776 West Publishing Company West Publishing St. Paul, MN
- 314-0105 West Publishing Company West Services, Seattle, WA
- 326-8021 West Publishing Company COP-Collections St. Paul, MN
- 543-3405 Western Publishing Racine, WI
- 218-4001 WGE Publishing, Inc. Hancock, NH
- 173-2546 Wordware Publishing, Inc. Wordware Publis Plano, TX
- 350-2648 Ziff Davis Publishing PC Computing Boston, MA
-
- `PRESS' search
-
- MCI ID Name Organization Location
- 597-3297 Capra Press Capra Press Santa Barba, CA
- 259-0558 Clarity Press, Inc. Atlanta, GA
- 593-8735 Daily Press Dow Jones & Co, NEWPORT NEWS, V
- 507-9207 Global Financial Press Global Financia NY, NY
- 403-1178 Gum Tree Press Cowles Magazine Unionville PA
- 582-3930 Islamorada Free Press Islamorada Free Islamorada, FL
- 584-5231 Long & Strider Press Long & Strider Scottsdale, AZ
- 574-6460 Magnetic Press, Inc. Magnetic Press New York, NY
- 587-6181 Micro Pro Litera Press Micro Pro Liter San Francis, CA
- 263-5152 Microsoft Press Redmond, WA
- 381-5247 New York Press New York Press New York, NY
- 533-9561 The Mercantile Press, Inc. Mercantile Pres Wilmington, DE
- 595-4427 TRAPLESS SANDS PRESS TRAPLESS SANDS PALO ALTO, CA
- 295-9492 University of California P University of C Berkeley, CA
- 517-0393 Western Computer Press Tualatin, OR
- 546-5105 Westview Press Boulder, CO
-
-
- A Note to Writers
- =================
-
- Email submissions have many advantages. In addition to the fast and
- reliable transmission, the editor may give more rapid turnaround to
- email inquiries. The opportunity for writer-editor communication and
- feedback is increased. The ability to find the specific outlet for a
- particular piece is improved. Also, in comparison to the telephone,
- people can read their mail whenever they want instead of at random
- interruptions. They can measure their responses carefully and archive
- them for future reference. For submissions, the intermediate step of
- rekeying typewritten text is largely eliminated.
-
- Please treat this capability of email submission with the utmost
- respect. If you abuse it you may jeopardize your own and fellow writer's
- future opportunities. An editor may decide capriciously that only junk
- comes in electronically, and ignore or remove the capability. Or, the
- editor may pay special attention to all the gems of articles that can be
- discovered and polished there. Always treat the editor with kind regard.
- If an article is rejected, simply resubmit elsewhere, make changes, or
- abandon it. The email address is *not* a hotline to flame or harass
- editors.
-
- Whenever you hear of a new address, please inform the author of this
- list. You do not gain anything by withholding it from your fellow
- writers. Everyone benefits when the list is thorough and complete. A
- comprehensive list of outlets encourages competition between them for
- your writing based on rights and remuneration policies, similar to an
- electronic Yellow Pages.
-
- Also, feel free to approach editors you know about the idea of setting
- up the service of internet email submission addresses. Tell them that
- their competitors have set up the system and that there are many
- potential benefits, perhaps ultimately eliciting improved reader
- satisfaction and interest.
-
-
- A Note to Editors
- =================
-
- From the current perspective, you are in one of two categories: a
- backward Luddite or a visionary pioneer, depending on whether you have
- never heard of internet email or are utilizing it and supporting
- submissions through it. (That is a joke.) Sincerely however, in the near
- future conducting writing transactions over the internet may become the
- medium of choice for many markets. Of course, there are disadvantages
- along with the grand incentives to support this capability. Many editors
- however have found the ability to receive submissions and queries via
- email to be immensely valuable in cultivating future issues' articles.
- In some cases, you may be competing with them directly for knowledgeable
- and interesting articles and writers. If a writer sees two outlets with
- similar content but one with more ideal rights or remuneration
- arrangements, which will s/he submit to?
-
- The author of this list strongly encourages you to support and solicit
- articles via email. It may allow you to interact and direct your writers
- more effectively and less stressfully. It may allow you to improve the
- quality of submissions by expanding the available pool and increasing
- the target and focus of individual pieces. Ultimately it may make you
- more responsive to readers than your competition. Potentially, both the
- writer, editor, and reader benefit from the dynamic arrangement. All
- this is written in speculative terms, however, because it is not
- guaranteed. You may find that irrelevant or useless queries increase,
- but even so a wider selection pool may render that unproblematic.
-
-
- A Vision of the Future
- ======================
- (By L. Detweiler)
-
- I wrote this FAQ for a variety of reasons. The Internet has completely
- exploded into the collective human psyche and it is radically altering
- the realm of writing, and writing for money. It is clear that Cyberspace
- offers unprecedented opportunity for *everyone* to profit from writing
- and editing, not just a anointed elite clique as is often the case in
- many existing publishing structures. This threat to the status quo
- upsets many. But to me the bottom line is that the quality of writing
- available to the consumer (the reader) is ultimately going to improve,
- and the cost of that quality is going to decrease, and selling writing
- will be more accessable and profitable for everyone who truly has
- something valuable to offer.
-
- But the definition of `valuable' is going to be upheaved and
- revolutionized over the next few years. I feel very strongly that a
- certain kind of `parasitism' whereby a middleman takes advantage of a
- writer, reselling the `product' without adding any value himself, is
- going to become a much more difficult or even impossible niche in the
- future cyberspatial society, because all writers will have available
- their *own* unparalleled publishing capabilities.
-
- I think we are entering an age where *everyone* will be able to run
- their own publishing stations at home (sort of like FTP sites but far
- less complicated!) -- they will become perhaps as common as answering
- machines. And a structure to allow for transparent, seamless, painless
- transaction charges will evolve very soon as well. And ultimately, this
- was partly the motivation in writing this FAQ-- to encourage everyone to
- market their writing independent of people who seek to take advantage of
- them by denigrating, underpaying, monopolizing, and diminishing their
- choice of outlets. I seek to advance this vision of the future where
- everyone who can type can `publish'.
-
- Some people think, or fear, that the role of the writing `middleman' is
- threatened to the point of extinction. But I must emphasize that most
- existing editors, critics, proofreaders, etc. *do* add value to writing
- and deserve to be rewarded and sought by the better writers. In fact, I
- think these future developments in Cyberspace will also help to
- separate, more than ever before, the parasites from the truly talented
- artists (writers) and `meta-artists' (critics, proofreaders, editors,
- etc.) by rewarding the latter beyond their wildest dreams and making the
- former an unprofitable and untenable existence. Cyberspace is going to
- revolutionize publishing *more* than the printing press did, and in
- amazingly similar ways.
-
- One example of this emerging egalitarianism and populism in
- cyberspatial writing is in the explosion of electronic `zines'. While
- generally of marginal quality compared to more sophisticated outlets,
- some 'zines have built up immensely prestigious reputations and quality
- of editing and writing surpassing many paper-published journals. This
- trend will continue until an entire spectrum (a sort of `food chain')
- of magazines will exist in cyberspace from the lowliest free, irregularly
- published, slapped-together paragraphs to the most professional, slick,
- typeset, paying, even advertising- and subscription-based outlets all
- coexist.
-
-
- The FAQ as the Future
- =====================
- (By L. Detweiler)
-
- An interesting form of cyberspatial writing has existed for essentially
- as long as Usenet and continues to gain momentum and prestige, and may
- be the bridge to the vision of the future I have written about above.
- The Frequently Asked Question List, or FAQ, a document designed to
- answer questions that pop up on newsgroups to decrease the annoyance
- factor in reading them, started out as not even something that was ever
- archived at a public site-- FAQs were just regularly posted by their
- authors. (A regular Usenet posting itself represents different kind of
- publishing that is unique to cyberspace-- somewhat reminiscent of the
- way an electron beam of a television set displays a picture by
- continually retracing it.) But FAQs have evolved into extremely
- sophisticated collections of information on virtually any subject,
- becoming highly refined over many years and in involving whole
- hierarchies of teams and editors. A FAQ is even superior to many other
- types of static collections of writing in this way-- they are far more
- valuable (but also sometimes more difficult to keep track of) because
- they are continually updated.
-
- The most important new development in FAQ writing is that of the
- `commercial factor'. Buried in that phrase are many multifaceted pots of
- gold, but also many bugaboos. Very soon, the Internet will have a
- standard for mercantile commerce, and some FAQs will be one of the first
- pieces of the pie to be commercialized. I foresee some great, wrenching
- upheavals in the FAQ structures as the forces of `volunteerism' and
- `entrepreneurialism' meet face to face. I believe that a certain
- percentage of all FAQs, which in many ways are a microcosm of the
- Internet, will remain free and maintained by volunteers. But the rewards
- to both writers and readers in a fee-based structure for access are
- great. For even extremely inconsequential fees to individual readers,
- writers could be compensated, rewarded, and encouraged in their writing
- quite tangibly. And I believe a commensurate increase in the quality of
- the FAQs written by them, for their `consumers', will be quite dramatic.
- The FAQ will continue to be at the forefront of cyberspatial writing
- frontiers.
-
- I encourage you to read about my CRAM service below involved
- `publishing' the collections of others into the FAQ infrastructure. This
- removes some of the bothersome overhead to the writer in disseminating
- their writing by having an `agent' take care of the details. I have
- propagated over a half-dozen different compilations into the FAQ
- structure with extremely rewarding benefits to everyone involved. The
- writers are quite delighted at the increased exposure and the readers
- are quite delighted at running into the quality compilations they might
- never have discovered otherwise.
-
- I also urge anyone interested in cyberspatial writing to read the
- news.answers FAQ posted to that group and write a FAQ on their favorite
- subject of interest if it is not already covered. Even the simple
- process of taking existing FAQs and reorganizing them into more useful
- collections of information is an extremely valuable service to the net.
- Writing a FAQ in many ways is one of the ultimate community services to
- your fellow cyberspatial citizens. Just browsing the rtfm.mit.edu
- archives is an extremely pleasureable activity.
-
- The FAQ is a beautiful model of the future of writing in cyberspace. As
- it exists, the current process on Usenet to submit an `official' FAQ is
- far from Herculean and in fact highly accessable to virtually anyone
- with a modicum of interest in writing. In fact, the effort is
- astonishingly less than that required for that of say, a book, but, with
- newsgroup distributions reaching tens of thousands of readers, amazingly
- the exposure in many cases can be *greater* than that of a published
- book. And this exposure will increase tremendously as cyberspace becomes
- more ubiquitous, and I am convinced the `entrance requirements' will
- also become even more trivial to pass such that, as I wrote above,
- virtually anyone who can write can publish. Even the necessity of owning
- a computer is bypassed!
-
-
- Other Resources
- ===============
-
- Newsgroups
- ----------
-
- alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo
- ``Original science fiction in the Cyberpunk / Shadowrun genre'
- posted for review. Accomplished and beginning writers as well as
- fans. Submissions of stories (any length) or poetry related to
- Cyberpunk themes will get constructive feedback from other writers
- in this style. Interactive stories with other authors a
- possibility.'' (Jay Brandt, FAQ maintainer)
-
- alt.journalism
- Journalists and journalism students.
-
- alt.prose, alt.prose.d
- Predecessors to rec.arts.prose, lower distribution. Disscussion in
- alt.prose.d only.
-
- alt.zines
- `zines' or small low-circulation low-cost newsletters of fringe
- elements
-
- misc.writing
- Accomplished and beginning writers. Submissions, queries, markets,
- etc.
-
- news.answers
- Also alt.answers, comp.answers, misc.answers, etc. The standard
- moderated newsgroups for `approved' or `official' Usenet FAQs.
-
- rec.arts.prose
- Posted fiction for review. Discussion of posted articles.
-
- rec.arts.poems
- Posting and discussion of original poetry.
-
- rec.arts.sf.written
- Written science fiction. Great authors. Writing style. (?)
-
- rec.mag
- Magazines (?)
-
- rec.mag.fsfnet
- Fantasy and science fiction discussion, movies and television (?)
-
-
- Mailing Lists
- -------------
-
- - MAGAZINE
-
- Topics: ``Expert opinion or help from established scholars and
- professionals. Covering the history, current state and future
- prospects of the American Magazine, and issues related to magazine
- publishing. Primary focus is journalistic, but also addresses
- other magazine-publishing matters of economic (management,
- marketing, circulation, production, research), technological,
- historical and social importance.''
- Subscription: send JOIN MAGAZINE <YourFirstName> <YourLastName> in
- message body to <COMSERVE@VM.ITS.RPI.EDU> or (BITNET)
- <COMSERVE@RPITSVM.BITNET>
- Moderator: David Abrahamson <ABRAHAMSON@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU>
-
- - Small Press Mailing List
-
- Topics: ``Concerns of authors and editors involved with the small
- press, both of books and of magazines. Printers and services,
- announcements, calls for submissions, bookstores, discussion of
- acceptance and rejections, book and signing events,readings, `war
- stories', advice for writers, editors, self-publishers.''
- Subscription: send your human-readable *request* to join or leave
- to <small-press-request@world.std.com>. *Posts* to the list go to
- <small-press@world.std.com>.
- Moderator: <ctan@world.std.com> (Cecilia M Tan)
-
- - Writer's Workshop
-
- Topics: ``Although started for discussion of writing,
- submissions, critiques, various mind-joggers, and exercises also
- are passed among the participants. All postings are archived and
- available to participants.''
- Subscription: The workshop is self-serve - send email to
- <listserv@vm1.nodak.edu> (or <listserv@ndsuvm1.bitnet>) with the
- message SUBSCRIBE WRITERS <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>.
-
- - Fiction and Writing lists
-
- Topics: Fiction Writers Workshop. Fiction list is for submissions
- and critiques, Writing list is for general discussions, new member
- introductions, and announcements of various sorts. Tone is
- professional. Most members actually pursue publication. Usually in
- science fiction or fantasy genres.
- Subscription: send mail to LISTSERVE@psuvm.psu.edu, `subscribe
- <listname> <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>' where <listname> is
- `fiction', `writing', `novels-l'. For the nonfiction list send
- `subscribe nfictn-l <yourfirstname> <yourlastname> to
- listserve@american.edu.
- Posting: FICTION@PSUVM.PSU.EDU, WRITING@PSUVM.PSU.EDU. Also,
- <NOVELS-L@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> for novels and and non-fiction and poetry
- <NFICTN-L@american.edu>.
-
- - Poetry list
-
- Topics: ``This list is designed to be a forum where original
- poetry (either complete or in progress) may be posted by members
- interested in critique-style discussion, examination, and analysis
- of their work. ...It is assumed that all members will at some
- point post an original piece, and not merely assume an exclusively
- responsive role.''
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@gonzaga.edu, `subscribe
- poetry <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <POETRY@GONZAGA.EDU>
-
- - Screen Writing Discussion List
-
- Topics: ``a discussion list of the joy and challenge of screen
- writing for film and TV ... Any topic of interest to writers or
- potential writers is appropriate (i.e. format, story ideas,
- dialogue, characters, agents, producers, directors, actors,
- studios, problems and/or solutions).''
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@tamvm1.bitnet, `subscribe
- scrnwrit <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <SCRNWRIT@TAMVM1.BITNET>
-
- - Creative Writing Pedagogy for Teachers and Students
-
- Topics: ``a place to discuss how and why creative writing is being
- taught at colleges and universities, including the role it plays
- in the curriculum, the history of creative writing programs, the
- shape and flavor of creative writing courses, and the influence
- it has or should have on students' lives''
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@MIZZOU1.BITNET, `subscribe
- crewrt-l <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <CREWRT-L@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
-
- - Megabyte University
-
- Topics: ``an unarchived list primarily for professors, teachers,
- graduate students and administrators involved in teaching
- composition using computers.topics of discussion have included
- software descriptions and comparisons for use in teaching
- composition, determining real audience for composition students,
- and announcements of upcoming conferences, both actual and
- virtual. Many of the members of this list also participate in the
- MediaMOO weekly online conferences and other activities''
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@TTUVM1.BITNET, `subscribe
- MBU-L <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <MBU-L@TTUVM1.BITNET>
- Moderator: Fred Kemp
-
- - The Composition Digest
-
- Topics: ``a weekly newsgroup for the study of computers and writing,
- specifically writing instruction in computer based classrooms."
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@ULKYVX.BITNET, `subscribe
- COMPOS01 <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <COMPOS01@ULKYVX.BITNET>
-
- - Purdue Rhetoric
-
- Topics: ``Rhetoric, Professional Writing, and Language Discussion
- Group - a scholarly forum for discussion of rhetoricand
- composition, professional writing, and language research.
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@URCCVM.BITNET, `subscribe
- PURTOPOI <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <PURTOPOI@PURCCVM.BITNET>
-
- - English Forum
-
- Topics: ``An archived discussion forum on electronic
- communication in instruction and research of English, writing, and
- literature.''
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@MIZZOU11.BITNET, `subscribe
- ENGLMU-L <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <ENGLMU-L@MIZZOU11.BITNET>
-
- - WIOLE
-
- Topics: Writing Intensive Online Learning Environment, an archived
- list for writing instructors.
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@MIZZOU1.BITNET, `subscribe
- WIOLE-L <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <WIOLE-L@MIZZOU1.BITNET>
-
- - Writing Center
-
- Topics: ``A discussion list for directors of academic writing
- centers, including evaluating software for writing instruction,
- use of tutors, and other issues specific to writing centers.''
- Subscription: send mail to listserve@TTUVM1.BITNET, `subscribe
- W-CENTER <yourfirstname> <yourlastname>'.
- Posting: <W-CENTER@TTUVM1.BITNET>
-
- FTP sites
- ---------
-
- A large collection of electronic `zines' and other miscellaneous
- electronic text files can be found on the University of Michigan
- archives, etext.archive.umich.edu.
-
- Other writing-related FAQs can be found on rtfm.mit.edu:
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/writing. The FAQ site is also an
- outstanding collection of highly refined writing by `amatures' on
- virtually any topic, highly accessable to both readers and writers.
- The FAQ maintainers mailing list is available by request to
- faq-maintainers-request@mit.edu.
-
- Miscellaneous
- -------------
-
- A more accurate list of electronic `zines' is posted intermittently
- to alt.mag, alt.zines, posted by John Labovitz <johnl@netcom.com>.
- See netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/e-zine-list (most recent) or
- rtfm.mit.edu:/pub/usenet/news.answers/writing/zines.
-
- ``Electronic Writers' Workshops and Online Education in Creative
- Writing'' (Bowers & Butcher, 1993) is available from gwuvm.gwu.edu:
- /WRITERS.RESOURC. Compilation of resources for writers and for
- writing teachers on the national network services, part 1. Part 2,
- virtual classrooms and tools for collaborative writing projects.
- Part 3, `a new breed of literatary magazines that are written,
- published, and read exclusively by network users...finding a
- readership beyond the best hopes of many professional and academic
- literatary magazines' editors.' Part 4, copyrights, what constitutes
- publication in the electronic realm, antidotes to `remarkable
- examples of misinformation'.
-
-
- CRAM: the Cyberspatial Reality Advancement Movement
- ====
-
- In an effort to bring valuable information to the masses, and as a
- service to motivated information compilers, I (L. Detweiler) will help
- others unfamiliar with Usenet `publish' their documents for widespread
- dissemination via the FAQ structure, and act as a `sponsor' knowledgable
- in the submissions process. This document is being distributed under
- this arrangement.
-
- I have found these compilations tend to appear on various mailing lists
- and are valuable enough to deserve wider distribution. If you know of an
- existing compilation of Internet information that is not currently a
- FAQ, please contact me and I may `sponsor' it. The benefits to the
- author include:
-
- - use of the existing FAQ infrastructure for distribution:
- - automated mail server service
- - FTP archival
- - automated posting
-
- - a far wider audience that can improve the quality, accuracy,
- and coverage of the document enormously through email
- feedback
-
- - potential professional inquiries for the use of your
- document in other settings, such as newsletters, books,
- etc.
-
- - with me as your sponsor, I will also take care of the
- technicalities in the proper format of the posted version
- and updating procedures, leaving you free of the `overhead'
- to focus on the basic updates alone
-
- The choice of who I `sponsor' is entirely arbitrary. You always
- have the option of handling the submission process yourself.
- See the FAQ submission guidlines FAQ in news.answers.
-
-
- Most Wanted List
- ================
-
- This list can grow and prosper if you help keep it updated, use the
- information herein wisely, and help recruit new sources. Please do
- NOT send random editor email addresses unless those editors specifically
- approve of advertising them. Currently most wanted:
-
- - More popular newstand magazines, esp. paying ones. Asimov's, Analog,
- etc.
- - Old discussion on MAGAZINE email list about email submission
- addresses.
- - More HTML magazines like GNN and Trincoll.
- - FTP sites.
- - any elaboration on places with `(?)'
-
- When submitting updates to the list, PLEASE include all known
- information in the categories recorded. That is: email address,
- description of the general content of the outlet, remuneration policies,
- and the rights involved. The editor of this list prefers outlets that
- are `well established' and are not likely to disappear. Also, another
- list by J. Labovitz better tracks electronic `zines'. See `Other
- Resources' above.
-
- Send comments to <ld231782@longs.lance.colostate.edu>.
-
-
- Credits
- =======
-
- Special thanks to the following people for contributing especially
- valuable information to this list:
-
- Kyle Conway <kconway@nyx.cs.du.edu>
- Ed Stastny <ed@cwis.unomaha.edu>
- Cecilia M Tan <ctan@world.std.com>
- David Abrahamson <ABRAHAMSON@ACFcluster.NYU.EDU>
- Laura Packard <ae099@freenet.buffalo.edu>
- John Bowers <JBOWERS@gwuvm.gwu.edu>
- Chuq Von Rospach <chuq@apple.com>
-
- Special thanks to the forward-seeing editors who have the patience,
- vision, and expertise to support email submissions.
-
-
- Change History
- ==============
-
- v2.0 (1/94)
-
- `A Vision of the Future' inspired partly by Chuq Von Rospach
- hostility in email. `CRAM' and `FAQ of the Future' added. Alternate
- Hilarities (Tales Twice Told), OtherRealms, Intertext, Trincoll
- Journal, Writer's Nook News added. Mailing list entries modified to
- indicate list address vs. subscription addresses (apologies for
- inconvenience, but blame J.B. :).
-
- v1.3 (11/93)
-
- Grist addition. Fix of the Lansing vs. Ann Arbor (thanks many
- people!) Fringware Review. Fiction & Writing lists. Bowers papers
- on cyberspatial writing resources FTP pointers (highly recommended).
- Poetry list. Screen Writing list. Creative Writing Pedagogy list.
- Megabyte University. Composition Digest list. Purdue Rhetoric list.
- Writing Intensive Online Learning Environment list. Writing Center
- list. (New mailing lists added are from Bowers paper, thanks!)
-
- v1.2 (9/93)
-
- MCI Mail magazine addresses included. Posting frequency changed.
- Glitch that posted to `misc.writers' oblivion instead of
- `misc.writing'.
-
- v1.1 (8/93)
-
- Writer's Workshop list, Cyberspace Vanguard added.
-
- v1.0 (8/93)
-
- Wilde Oakes, Lighthouse added. Posted to *.answers groups &
- archived at rtfm.mit.edu.
-
- v0.6 (8/93)
-
- Added `rights,' `comments,' `type' categories. Reordered
- list categories. Added small-press list. Paladin and Circlet added.
-
- v0.5 (7/93)
-
- Basics of email address, newsgroup list, editor & writer notices,
- submission protocol, etc. in place after initial query on
- misc.writing.
-
-
- Distribution
- ============
-
- FTP
- ---
- This FAQ is available from the standard FAQ server rtfm.mit.edu via
- FTP in the file /pub/usenet/news.answers/writing/resources
-
- Email
- -----
- Email requests for FAQs go to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with commands
- on lines in the message body, e.g. `help' and `index'.
-
- Usenet
- ------
- This FAQ is posted every 21 days to the groups misc.writing,
- rec.arts.prose,rec.arts.sf.written,misc.answers,rec.answers,
- news.answers.
-
- --
-
- ld231782@longs.LANCE.ColoState.EDU
-