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mary rosenblum
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Hello,all!
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me, Mary Rosenblum, LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today
we're talking about submitting and publishing your work. If you're new
here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the
'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the top of the screen, or
use the ask a question icon in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send'
bar won't reach me! You can also type /ask in front of your question to
reach me.
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mary rosenblum
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I hope you all had a great
weekend,and are all finding more time to write as we move into fall and
'writing weather'. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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I wanted to talk about
publishing and submissions since I get a lot of questions from both Long
Ridge students and people on the website.
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mary rosenblum
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So if you have any questions,
this is where to ask them!
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mary rosenblum
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Remember that if you can't
send a long quesiton in your 'ask a question' send bar...
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mary rosenblum
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you can send it from your
regular send bar by simply typing /ask in front of it.
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mary rosenblum
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I wanted to start with the
question I probably get asked most:
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mary rosenblum
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When can I query? I haven't
heard back from the editor and I sent my story/query/article in MONTHS ago.
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mary rosenblum
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This is a tough one. If you
are submitting a book length work and you are submitting to a publisher who
is willing to take unagented ms, a full manuscript might take more than a
year to work its way up to the editor.
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writermom
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Mary I just wanted to announce
again that I have been named Section Editor for Just For Mom an online
magazine. The section I will be editing is Timeout For Parents. I am
looking for unpublished Moms and Dads to submit their work. We want
fiction, non fiction and poetry about absolutely anthing, NO THEME LISTS.
Just adhere to the Just For Mom writing guidelines and keep it at 1000
words or less. submit all your work to timeout@justformom.com Thanks Chris
Weigand
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mary rosenblum
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Oh, cool, writermom!
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mary rosenblum
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Why don't you email me a copy
of your writers guidelines and I'll post it in the new markets section in
Writing Craft?
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mary rosenblum
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Do stress that 'unpublished'
requirement, please. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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You can send it to me at
maryrsn@comcast.net
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mary rosenblum
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I'll be sending out a website
update tomorrow, so if you get it to me today sometime, I can include it in
the update.
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mary rosenblum
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Right now, for those of you
who ARE yet unpublished, the internet offers...
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mary rosenblum
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a host of non-paying markets
and markets that don't pay much.
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mary rosenblum
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While I always advocate
sending work first to top paying markets, if you don't sell something
there, try for the small markets.
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mary rosenblum
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A publication is a publication
and while a publication in a small no-pay market is not like publishing in
Red Book or one of the top markets...
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mary rosenblum
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many of those markets are well
respected. And they do prove that you can write something publishable. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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And writermom tells me that
Just for Mom is not a paying market, but it is a clip!
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t green
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I know the difference between
'pays on acceptance' and 'pays on publication', but is there a time limit
on how long a publisher can hold your work without telling you they're
holding it for publication at a later date? I've sent a query after 4
months, still received no reply. Now what do I do? withdraw the article or
send another query?
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mary rosenblum
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Thank you for bringing this
up, t.
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mary rosenblum
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This is something that you
really need to think about.
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mary rosenblum
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Let's first talk about on
acceptance versus on publication in terms of payments.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me, Mary Rosenblum, LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today
we're talking about submitting and publishing your work. If you're new
here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the
'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the top of the screen, or
use the ask a question icon in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send'
bar won't reach me! You can also type /ask in front of your question to
reach me.
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mary rosenblum
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Most publishers now 'pay on
publication', including Long Ridge.
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mary rosenblum
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That means that you don't get
the check until the issue including your story/article goes to press.
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mary rosenblum
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This cuts down on large
capital investments in inventory and is to the publisher's financial
advantage...not yours!
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mary rosenblum
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But it IS a fact of life these
days.
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mary rosenblum
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However, if there is no
kill-fee or pub-by date in your contract, then yes, the publisher can hold
that story indefinitely.
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mary rosenblum
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And it is a good idea to write
in a 'pub by' date in your contract.
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mary rosenblum
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Now if you are going to do
this be reasonable. Remember that often magazines are 'roughed out' six
months in advance, so if you put a pub-by date into your contract...
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mary rosenblum
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that is six months from the
date you return it, your editor may refuse the change or refuse to buy the
story.
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mary rosenblum
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I would set your pub-by date
for two years. That gives the editor plenty of lead time.
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mbvoelker
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My biggest sale, a cover story
for Bird Talk, was pay on publication. It ws published almost precisely 2
years after acceptance. Pay on acceptance might have been nice but for
something big like that I was more than willing to wait.
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mary rosenblum
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That's about right, mb.
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mary rosenblum
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Asimov's, for example, usually
publishes my work about a year after they buy it, but because I'm an
established name, I get to go head of less well known writers.
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mary rosenblum
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New writers generally wait a
couple of years.
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bravo6
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Kill-fee? We PAY to have it
killed or THEY pay us becuase they can't/won't use it or we request it
back????
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mary rosenblum
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A kill fee is the fee that the
publisher pays YOU if they decide not to publish your work after all.
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mary rosenblum
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Generally it is about half of
the original purchase price.
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mary rosenblum
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It is not often mentioned in
short story contracts, unless you are in a top market, but should be
mentioned in contracts for book length works.
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sailor
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I've had 2 articles accepted by
a pay on pub mag. They are national, but operate loosely - no written
contract, just e-mail acceptance. The guidelines say they buy one-time
rights. What rights can I sell elsewhere while I'm waiting?
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mary rosenblum
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Well, sailor, you're in a bind
here. They are assuming, I'm sure, that they are buying First Rights, and
you don't know when the article will be published.
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mary rosenblum
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That means while you can go
ahead and sell reprint rights (Second Rights), you have to be sure that the
buyer of those 'reprint' rights doesn't...
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mary rosenblum
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publish that 'reprint' before
you national mag publishes the article!
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mary rosenblum
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So if you want to offer
reprint rights, you need to tell that editor that it depends on when the
article is published by the first buyer, and I doubt...
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mary rosenblum
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that the editor will buy it
happily. She/he isn't going to want to commit to an article when she has no
idea when it can be used.
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bravo6
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- per sailor's comments about
first rights, etc (Hi Sailor...) Couldn't she give it a twist a resell it
to someone else with a differrent slant?
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mary rosenblum
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Sure, but it must be a
genuinely different slant.
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mary rosenblum
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I just heard of a case where a
well know PRO sold the same article to two top markets with minimal change
and got threatned with a lawsuit by one of the mags. NOT a good way to help
your career along.
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t green
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There is no contract. it's a
magazine article, sent for submission 'cold' with a cover letter.
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mary rosenblum
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Then you're just waiting to
hear if they want it or not, t.
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mary rosenblum
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The magazine's writers
guidelines will tell you what they buy and how they pay for it.
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t green
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I've got no problem waiting, I
just want to know if they're interested in purchasing the piece at all, or
if they even received it! (I sent it to Scholastic)
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mary rosenblum
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Ah. Well, if they've had it
for longer than their specified response time...
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mary rosenblum
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again in the writers
guidelines...then go ahead and query them.
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mary rosenblum
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Send them a nice letter saying
that you're afraid that the article never arrived and offering to resend
it. ;-)
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mary rosenblum
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Prodding someone's guilt
response is never a bad idea!
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mary rosenblum
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MUCH better than an angry
letter saying 'I assume you don't want this and just didn't bother to tell
me'...or something like that.
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mary rosenblum
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You get remembered for that,
and if your article and someone else's are of equal itnerest...guess which one
the editor will buy?
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curseofthe44
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If you have and article or story
that is submitted to one magazine, but find another that you would like to
submit the story to as well, could you change the story somewhat and submit
to the next publication and not be breaking your contract with the first
publication?
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mary rosenblum
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Only if you REALLY change the
story, curse. Changing the setting or renaming the characters is not going
to do it.
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mary rosenblum
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Remember...you are looking at
a lifetime career here, not just one sale this year.
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mary rosenblum
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If you alienate an
editor...how often do you think you'll sell to him?
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mary rosenblum
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Yes, if you're Stephen King
you can jerk anyone around...
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mary rosenblum
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but until you ARE...think
about selling to this person again. Is it worth the sale if you cut
yourself out of a market?
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mary rosenblum
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EVERYBODY is anxious to get
there stories and queries out fast, fast,fast...
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mary rosenblum
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and the long response times
are very frustrating.
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mary rosenblum
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You will really help yourself
as a writer if you cultivate the long term view. Those pieces are your
lifetime inventory...
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mary rosenblum
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Instead of chewing your nails
until you hear from THIS market, work on the NEXT piece and get that one
out.
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mary rosenblum
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You have the rest of your life
to sell these things.
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mary rosenblum
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Unless you are writing about
current events, articles and stories have a forever shelf life.
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mary rosenblum
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You can always revise to fit
current trends if you don't sell it for years.
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sailor
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Sometimes the editor geniunely
did not receive it. I e-mail an article with lots of attached photos to an
editor who usually gets back to be very quickly. (She apologized once when
it took 2 weeks for her to get back to me.) This time 3 weeks passed. I
e-mailed asking if she rec'd it, saying I was sorry to bother her but she
had spoiled me with her usually quick response. She said she never got it.
I resent and got an acceptance in a week.
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mary rosenblum
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That's absolutely true,
sailor. I've had several ms go missing over the years.
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mary rosenblum
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That's why it is fine to
query, but just do it politely. If you whine or demand and catch the editor
on a bad day...
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mary rosenblum
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that editor may just go find
your ms, slap a form rejection on it and send it right back to you.
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mary rosenblum
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And do realize that many
editors will HOLD a new writer's piece...
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mary rosenblum
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waiting for an opening in an
issue that has plenty of strong, established writers in it. YOU aren't
going to sell any copies for her...except to your mother...
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mary rosenblum
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so you won't help her
magazine, but she wants to give you a start and hangs on, waiting for a
chance.
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mary rosenblum
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BUT...if you then send her a
snippy letter...want to guess what she'll do? That 'did it get lost in the
mail' is a good strategy.
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bravo6
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When should I see the contract I
need to sign? ;-)
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mary rosenblum
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You will get a contract after
you sell the story or article or book, bravo.
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mary rosenblum
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You should know what the
publisher is buying...that is in the guidelines...but the contract will
include...
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mary rosenblum
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other details that you must
read.
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mary rosenblum
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And it is okay to make
reasonable changes...I just changed a contract I received for an anthology
sale,.
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helen h
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If an editor returns a story
saying they don't have space at that time and often send back good
material, is it acceptable to resubmit it to them say a couple of years
later in the hopes they have more space?
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mary rosenblum
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Sure, helen. Now that may be
the editor's polite way of simply rejecting you, and I'd sure send it out
elsewhere...
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mary rosenblum
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unless the editor specifically
says 'try me in six months'.
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mary rosenblum
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But eventually, try it again
and remind the editor that she liked it in the first place but didn't have
space for it.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me, Mary Rosenblum, LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today
we're talking about submitting and publishing your work. If you're new
here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the
'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the top of the screen, or
use the ask a question icon in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send'
bar won't reach me! You can also type /ask in front of your question to
reach me.
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shayon-joseph
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Hi Mary, my question deals with
peripheral writing assignments. Can you speak at all to things like,
Technical Writing or Consultative writing for business (i.e., marketing ad
copy) as a stop gap measure between getting one's articles published or
waiting for an agent to pick you up on a book length project.
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mary rosenblum
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Sure Shayon...by all means do
it, if it doesn't get in the way of your main writing.
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mary rosenblum
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It DOES for me, which is why I
prefer teaching, myself...
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mary rosenblum
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but many writers help pay
bills by doing tech writing or hollywood writing or hack writing.
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owlybear
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I've seen magazines that want
all rights.. Should we avoid those ones??
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mary rosenblum
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Yes, yes, and YES!!! ALL
RIGHTS means you are selling your WORDS>
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mary rosenblum
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When you sell 'rights' you are
selling permission for someone to use your words in a certain way, but the
words themselves still belong to you and you can sell other types of
permission.
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mary rosenblum
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All rights means the buyer
OWNS your words.
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mary rosenblum
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Now many 'new editors' use
this because they don't know how to write a contract and this seems
simpler...
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mary rosenblum
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and a lot of newbie writers
will sign it. Top markets do not.
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mary rosenblum
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Just change it...what does
thatpublisher need? Is it a website?
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mary rosenblum
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You can sell electronic rights
for a limited time...say a year...
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mary rosenblum
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or two.
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mary rosenblum
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Or offer first world rights...
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mary rosenblum
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But do NOT offer ALL RIGHTS.
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sailor
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What is "hack
writing"?
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mary rosenblum
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THat's a somewhat derogatory
term, but what it means is writing something that you don't much care about
for pay...usually fiction.
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mary rosenblum
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And it also means you do it as
'work for hire'...
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mary rosenblum
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and own no rights.
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mary rosenblum
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Nothing wrong with it...lots
of people pay bills donig that.
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mary rosenblum
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Porn is a big hack-writing
industry, btw.
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mary rosenblum
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Not my idea of how to pay the
bills, but it works for some.
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jackie7777
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All Rights Reserved - meaning?
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mary rosenblum
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In what context, jackie. Where
did you see that?
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roe
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If I publish something online on
a member only site and then offer to a hardcopy mag. what rights am I
selling and do I have to tell them it's published online. Are electronic
first rights different than First North American Serial?
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mary rosenblum
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This is a sticky issue, roe.
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mary rosenblum
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And it depends on the
publisher.
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mary rosenblum
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Most will probably not be
willing to pay you First Rights rates..even if it is memebers only.
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mary rosenblum
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And some ...markets that don't
publish reprints...may not be willing to buy it at all.
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mary rosenblum
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But you DO have to tell the
editor. Remember you are signing a legal contract.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me, Mary Rosenblum, LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today
we're talking about submitting and publishing your work. If you're new
here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the
'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the top of the screen, or
use the ask a question icon in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send'
bar won't reach me! You can also type /ask in front of your question to
reach me.
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tkat_2
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So which is the safest way to
send an MS or query?
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mary rosenblum
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If you are sending a book
length ms, by all means send it economy fedex or UPS.
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mary rosenblum
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That way you can track it and
you know it got delivered.
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mary rosenblum
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Copying a ms is expensive, but
NEVER EVER send your only copy...
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mary rosenblum
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the gods love to get people
who do that...your ms will be lost and your hard drive will
crash...guaraneed. Murphy's Law Number 243
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mary rosenblum
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I send short work and queries
first class. They get better treatment...
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mary rosenblum
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you can put 'received' post
cards in the envelope but they make editors roll their eyes.
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mary rosenblum
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Often they are not even
discovered until the editor takes the ms out of the envelope to read the
cover letter.
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jackie7777
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All Rights Reserved - saw this
printed in a novel.
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mary rosenblum
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That's what I assumed. That
means that the publisher reserves all the rights you granted to it...nobody
can copy and distribute the book without consuting them.
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bravo6
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Would this be considered
published? If I e-mailed them all individually they could just delete the
file if they didn't want to, but this allows them to pick the ones they DO
want to crititue
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mary rosenblum
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Doesn't sound like it, bravo.
Published is displayed in some publically accessible format...and members
only sites ARE publically accessible if you join!
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mary rosenblum
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But email is not published any
more than a computer print out handed around at a writers workshop is
published.
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mary rosenblum
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This is the Tuesday Forum with
me, Mary Rosenblum, LR Web Editor, fiction and nonfiction writer. Today
we're talking about submitting and publishing your work. If you're new
here, remember that you need to click on the 'Ask a Question' button or the
'word bubble' next to the red question mark at the top of the screen, or
use the ask a question icon in order to ask a question. Your regular 'send'
bar won't reach me! You can also type /ask in front of your question to
reach me.
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helen h
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have you ever encountered
editors who layout and print first,, then send you the contract after the
fact? or are they the exception.
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mary rosenblum
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No, helen. They don't have any
right to use my words in any way until I sign the contract. What if I say,
no, I don't like this, you can't have my story?
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mary rosenblum
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If someone is doing it, they
are likely to run into trouble eventually.
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joanc
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Mary what does it mean when they
say they want 'clips' obviously they don't want whole manuscripts, or do
they?
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mary rosenblum
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Joan, a clip can be a copy of
a magazine or newspaper article...
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mary rosenblum
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or if you have published a
book, you can simply give publisher, date of publication, and maybe an ISBN
number. And title of course.
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mary rosenblum
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They don't want the
book...BUT...if you think the book might sell whatever you're offering and
it's worth the cost...send the book.
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bravo6
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But what if you stipulated
something that wasn't outrageous, for those. I.E - a word, a word for ALL
rights??? :-) Other than avoidance...
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mary rosenblum
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Feel free, bravo.
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mary rosenblum
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And if they make a blockbuster
movie out of that story that maybe netted you 3000 dollars won't whine to
ME!
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mary rosenblum
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Remember 'Sometimes a Great
Notion' by Ken Keasey? It was made into a blockbuster movie.
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mary rosenblum
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You want to guess how much he
got for that?
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mary rosenblum
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Yep. Nada. He had a bad agent
and signed away his movie rights.
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mary rosenblum
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He didn't get a dime.
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sailor
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If you see something in a
contract you don't like, do you just change it and send it back, or do you
call the editor first to discuss what you want to change?
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mary rosenblum
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Sailor, I just change it
because I know what editors are likely to give on and what is not
changeable...BUT...if you do NOT know your way around the industry, by all
means call first.
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mary rosenblum
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It's a headache for both of
you to swap contracts by mail!
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mary rosenblum
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Now if I want to make a change
that is major, I will call.
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mary rosenblum
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and I'm talking short work
contracts. I don't touch book length contracts. That's why my agent gets a
chunk of my money!
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roe
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Does first world rights take in
electronic rights?
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mary rosenblum
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It CAN. IT merely specifies
that the work can be published anywhere in the world and is generally used
for electronic publications...
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mary rosenblum
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but usually as First World
Electronic Rights...unless the publisher intends to publish in both print
AND on the internet.
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mary rosenblum
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Then electronic rights are not
always specified.
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shayon-joseph
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Mary, back to the issue of time
to publication. So, is it usual for a Editor/Market to take "months or
even years" to get one's article published? If so, then, how can the
freelancer make a living without starving to death?
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mary rosenblum
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One to three years, shayon.
For short work.
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mary rosenblum
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You make a freelance living by
sending our MANY MANY articles.
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mary rosenblum
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You keep that day job until
you are getting checks regularly enough that you can pay the bills.
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mary rosenblum
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Yes of course you will have a
long early lag as you make sales and not much shows up in print.
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mary rosenblum
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This is a VERY frustrating
period for everybody, believe me.
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mary rosenblum
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But as you keep writing and
selling, work shows up more and more often as your stuff gets published.
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t green
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on the "all rights"
question... what if it's a TOP magazine... Highlights, Women's World,
Ladies Home Journal, Reader's Digest, etc.? would you sell all rights to
them?
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mary rosenblum
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I wouldn't. I'd find out what
they were willing to buy. I would be amazed if they are tough about that. I
don't know any real pros who will sell All Rights.
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writermom
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Mary what does one time rights
mean When my article was accepted by ONce Upon a Time she specified one
time rights in the release
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mary rosenblum
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Means they get to publish it
one time in one place.
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mary rosenblum
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They have to pay if they want
to use it again.
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mary rosenblum
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I buy one time nonexclusive
rights for LR.
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mary rosenblum
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For a period of one year.
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mary rosenblum
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That means after one year, I
should take the article down and I can't use it again.
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mary rosenblum
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The contract also specifies
that LR can use it in a newsletter if they choose, or post it on the ICL
website, say, for an additional fee.
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mary rosenblum
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And nonexclusive means you can
publish it elsewhere at the same time.
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bravo6
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TRoe's question begs this.. .
I"publish" most of my stuff on my website. But it is STRRICTLY
for critiquers whom i have signed up to help critique it. It puts the
document in a place they can come, sign in, get it, critique it and give me
feedback
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mary rosenblum
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That can be problematic,
bravo. Probably not, since it's a novel, and if your critiquers have to use
a password.
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mary rosenblum
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But it might cost you first
rights for short work.
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mary rosenblum
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If your post is not mentioned
on your website anywhere and ONLY your critiquers know about it, then I
think you're fine. Just don't mention it!
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mary rosenblum
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How is an editor going to know
about it/
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mary rosenblum
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But if you invite the public to
view the chapters...that might even get you in trouble with say, Tor.
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helen h
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I've heard that sending a sase
is a newbie sign. Yet all guidelines request one. can you clarify if you
should do it or not?
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mary rosenblum
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Oh you misheard, Helen! If you
do NOT send a SASE most publishers will trash can your ms unread.
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mary rosenblum
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That is a very hard and fast
rule!
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mary rosenblum
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Sending a 'did you get
this?" postcard is a newbie signature.
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mary rosenblum
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NEVER EVER send in a
submission without a SASE.
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mary rosenblum
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It will simply not get read
and will get tossed.
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mary rosenblum
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And that is INDEED one of the
NEVER!s in writing!
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mary rosenblum
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ALWAYS include a SASE.
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curseofthe44
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Should a SASE be paper clipped
to the manuscript?
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mary rosenblum
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Yep. If it ends up left in the
envelope, the editor may think you didn't invclude it. I always type enc:
Story Title, SASE, at the bottom of my cover letter...
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mary rosenblum
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so that the editor knows I
included it. :-)
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jackie7777
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Email submissions?
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mary rosenblum
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Email subs are hard, if you
don't hear back. I often find that LR student ms vanish on their way
through cyberspace and they have to resend 'em.
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mary rosenblum
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Many publishers send out
automated 'we got this' replies.
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mary rosenblum
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If you don't hear back..query.
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mary rosenblum
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I have had a number of people
send me submissions that never arrived.
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mary rosenblum
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A lot of spam filters tend to
eat letters with attachments.
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curseofthe44
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What if you have signed the
contract, but then when your story is published, the editor has made
changes that you were never asked about and possibly don;t approve of?
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mary rosenblum
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If your contract does not
require that the editor get your approval to change things, then tough.
You're stuck, curse.
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mary rosenblum
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Again...using the LR contract
as an example..it specifies that I have the right to edit.
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mary rosenblum
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It does not require that the
author approve them...few contracts if any do...if the editor agreed with
you, he wouldn't make those changes...
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mary rosenblum
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Some contracts, like Asimov's,
do promise to allow authors to see the page proofs but if you change them,
the editor can refuse the changes.
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curseofthe44
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For submitting fiction, what is
best in a cover letter? I've read that you should come up with something
witty to attract the editor, and I've also read that it should be kept
simple, since most editors don't read the cover letters. If there are no
set "rules", how do you know which to use?
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mary rosenblum
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Out of all the editors I know,
I know exactly ONE who says the cover letter matters to her,.
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mary rosenblum
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The rest glance at it to see
if you A: seem competant and B: see if you''re published...
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mary rosenblum
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and then read the ms. The
story or personal narrative sells itself. The cover letter does not.
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mary rosenblum
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Now I WILL use a hook line at
times when I send something to a new editor...
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mary rosenblum
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but only if a great one occurs
to me and it adds no more than a sentence to the letter.
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arfelin
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Do winners of writing contests
usually have contracts? AHMM asks for your SSN on submissions for their
Mysterious Photo Contest, if possible.
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mary rosenblum
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You only get a contract,
arfelin, if you winner gets published. (And then you have just used your
First RIghts, remember). The reason AHMM asks for your SSN...
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mary rosenblum
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is to simplify the
bookkeeping. YOu know what? I'm not risking MY SSN just to make someone's
life easier.
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mary rosenblum
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You don't know who is working
in the mail room and ID theft is a big deal . Just put SSN provided on
request.
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mary rosenblum
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They're reasonable people at
Dell.
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mary rosenblum
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They only need it if they are
going to cut you a check.
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joanc
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Mary what does it mean when they
say 'provides 1-3 contributor's' copies?
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mary rosenblum
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Nearly all publishers will
give you at least one copy of your work for free.
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mary rosenblum
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After that you buy it.
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mary rosenblum
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Now book publishers give you
more.
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mary rosenblum
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My agent usually specifies
about 25 copies. She sends a lot out to foreign publishers.
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mary rosenblum
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But for magazines you won't
usually get more than two or three..
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mary rosenblum
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although nearly every
publisher will give you an 'authors discount' on more...usually forty
percent off.
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mary rosenblum
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Oh yes...
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mary rosenblum
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a bit of book publishing
reality here.
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mary rosenblum
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In the real world of sales
figures...which dtermines your future book sales...
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mary rosenblum
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Get your friendly local
bookstore to buy copies of your book for you. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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THOSE sales (and they get a
discount, too) will count as 'sales'...
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mary rosenblum
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if YOU order them from your
publisher..they dont.
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mary rosenblum
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BRB....puppy needs to go
out...
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mary rosenblum
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back..
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mary rosenblum
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sorry. Eight weeks old...when
it's OUT it's OUT.
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curseofthe44
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If given a preference, would you
take, say, one copy and money, or (if offered) all copies and no money?
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mary rosenblum
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Curse, my writing pays my
bills. I want money! :-)
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calgal
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Hi Mary, any new news on the
novel writing course?
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mary rosenblum
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Yes, actually. WE had to take
a break on working on it...the LR editor had other projects to finish, and
I had two novels to get out..
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mary rosenblum
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what I hear now is that it
should be online in spring or early summer of 05.
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sailor
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Mary, did you get a new dog?
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mary rosenblum
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Yep. Thanks, Sailor. A real
gem. She slept at my feet the whole Forum. Nice of her. :-)
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mary rosenblum
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Well, I'll post this in
Writing Craft: Forum Transcripts!
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mary rosenblum
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Have a good week! Do query
when you think your ms has been somewhere way too long, but be polite about
it!
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mary rosenblum
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Do drop into our casual chat
tomorrow, same time, same place.
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mary rosenblum
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It's nice to see new faces!
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mary rosenblum
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See you all on the website!
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sailor
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Congrats on the new dog, Mary.
Another Rottie? I got a 1 year old Westie 2 wks ago. Owners could not keep
her. She's a sweetie.
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mary rosenblum
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Yep, sailor, baby rottie...my
3 year old DJ's neice. And she's now rampaging through the house. Gotta go!
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mary rosenblum
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Bye all!
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