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Bibliophile Stalker: October 21, 2009 Links and Plugs
Gareth L Powell - science fiction writer: Online Genre Magazines
Gareth L Powell - science fiction writer: Online Genre Magazines
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YES!!! RT @jacquesbarcia AWESOME!!! RT: @johnklima: excellent write-up of online magazines: http://is.gd/4wnSE 10/22/2009 |
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RT @jasonsanford: My take on the good, the bad, and the ugly of online genre magazines. http://tinyurl.com/yjaczq2 10/21/2009 |
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RT @jasonsanford: My take on the good, the bad, and the ugly of online genre magazines. http://tinyurl.com/yjaczq2 #fb 10/21/2009 |
October 21, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... Strauss on Author Mills and a Request for Contact. Hivelogic on Podcasting Equipment Guide (2009). Guy Gavriel Kay on Authors draw their knives during literary awards season. Jeff VanderMeer on The Pillars of Your Public Booklife: What Do You Find Most Important? Edward M Lerner on Intelligence, algorithms, and anthropomorphism. Rachelle Gardner on It Takes All Kinds. Jaosn Sanford on Online Genre Magazines: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Lynne Patrick on Ladies who do a whole ...
Online Genre Magazines
Gareth L Powell - science fiction writer —
... way to build readership and name recognition, they also tend to be more accessible than many print magazines, with most accepting electronic submissions, featuring rapid acceptance to publication turn-around times, and a willingness to work with new writers. However, all online magazines are not equal in the exposure they bring to a writer’s story.”
He even includes an up-to-date list of well-read online markets, which you can read here.
Speaking as someone who had stories published online before ...
Online Genre Magazines
Gareth L Powell - science fiction writer —
... way to build readership and name recognition, they also tend to be more accessible than many print magazines, with most accepting electronic submissions, featuring rapid acceptance to publication turn-around times, and a willingness to work with new writers. However, all online magazines are not equal in the exposure they bring to a writer’s story.”
He even includes an up-to-date list of well-read online markets, which you can read here.
Speaking as someone who had stories published online before ...
SF Tidbits for 10/22/09
SF Signal —
... Eoin Colfer @The Lovecraft News Network: Silvia Moreno-Garcia @BSC Review: Michael Connelly @Tor.com: Dan Hillier and Tom Lloyd Stomping on Yeti interviews M. Rickert.
Apex Publications signs two book deal with Gary A. Braunbeck. Phillip Palmer asks: Is this the Golden Age of SF (and if not, why not?) [via The Website at the End of the Universe]
Jason Sanford Online looks at Genre Magazines, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. ...
Jason Sanford reviews online genre magazines
Variety SF —
His post is from the point of view of authors wanting to submit stories, but makes a good overview for readers too - particularly the annotated list towards the end. Listing includes free & for-payment magazines. ...
Fame And Fortune (Well, Fame Anyway) Can Be Yours By Submitting To These Online Magazines [Writing]
io9 —
Writer and marketing guru Jason Sanford has a nifty roundup of webzines that publish short science fiction, including handy facts like their payrates and which ones will help you qualify as a professional writer under the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America rules. (And if six cents a word seems kind of a puny "professional" pay rate to you, then John Scalzi agrees. [Jason Sanford]
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The Weight of Paper
Auxiliary Memory —
... , general interest magazines started in 1731 with The Gentleman’s Magazine, so will we see the era of the printed magazine end before it’s 300th anniversary? When I was born the pulp magazine format was dying and the science fiction and fantasy digest magazine was beginning. Today those digests are disappearing and a new crop of online SF/F magazines are emerging. Read Jason Sanford’s recent survey of these new short story venues for emerging writers of fantastic fiction. Will getting published be as exciting? It will certainly be easier to ...
