Here's an odd coincidence. N.K. Wagner, the Chief Editor and Publisher of Page and Spine, responded to the previous posting and wondered if that particular publisher had snared anyone into that bad contract. I wondered about that too, so I went to the publisher's website to find out.
There are at least two other authors now publishing with that author. The coincidence is that one of those authors was a story author in this month's Page and Spine.
{ Blurb: My monthly review column is now there for March on Page and Spine's Writers Table Tab.}
It was because I'd written a review of that story that allowed me to recognize the name. I contacted her through her website, introduced myself, referenced the entry on my blog, and expressed a curiosity about the contract she signed. This blog entry is as late as it is because I've ben waiting for a response from her. But it has not showed up so I have no easy way to see if the contract offer has improved. If this author does respond, I'll pass it on here.
In the meantime, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have developed a new model contract for magazine publishing. Anyone at all interested in writing anything in the speculative fiction genre for magazines should read this contract. It is also available for download so the reference can be at your fingertips. Here's the link for that: http://www.sfwa.org/2015/09/sfwa-releases-a-new-model-magazine-contract/
Speaking of writing for magazines, I submitted three stories this weekend. I submitted two to Flash Fiction On Line, one of about 500 words and another just under a thousand.
I also submitted a reprint, "Battle Scars" to the Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show magazine. They seldom take reprints, but will consider them if the previous incarnation was very obscure. This was--it was published in a very limited edition, never for sale and never on line. It is in the anthology In Places Between for 2013 featuring the winners of the Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Fiction Competition and was only distributed to the authors, editors and publishers of the book.
{Good News: The Quickfic Publishing imprint of Digital Fiction Publishing has accepted my reprint story, "Transition", to be published on their website and in an anthology that may be digital or print or both.} I will update this development as appropriate.
Once again I thank you for visiting.
There are at least two other authors now publishing with that author. The coincidence is that one of those authors was a story author in this month's Page and Spine.
{ Blurb: My monthly review column is now there for March on Page and Spine's Writers Table Tab.}
It was because I'd written a review of that story that allowed me to recognize the name. I contacted her through her website, introduced myself, referenced the entry on my blog, and expressed a curiosity about the contract she signed. This blog entry is as late as it is because I've ben waiting for a response from her. But it has not showed up so I have no easy way to see if the contract offer has improved. If this author does respond, I'll pass it on here.
In the meantime, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have developed a new model contract for magazine publishing. Anyone at all interested in writing anything in the speculative fiction genre for magazines should read this contract. It is also available for download so the reference can be at your fingertips. Here's the link for that: http://www.sfwa.org/2015/09/sfwa-releases-a-new-model-magazine-contract/
Speaking of writing for magazines, I submitted three stories this weekend. I submitted two to Flash Fiction On Line, one of about 500 words and another just under a thousand.
I also submitted a reprint, "Battle Scars" to the Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show magazine. They seldom take reprints, but will consider them if the previous incarnation was very obscure. This was--it was published in a very limited edition, never for sale and never on line. It is in the anthology In Places Between for 2013 featuring the winners of the Robyn Herrington Memorial Short Fiction Competition and was only distributed to the authors, editors and publishers of the book.
{Good News: The Quickfic Publishing imprint of Digital Fiction Publishing has accepted my reprint story, "Transition", to be published on their website and in an anthology that may be digital or print or both.} I will update this development as appropriate.
Once again I thank you for visiting.
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