I'm a gnatts whisker off of actually completing my 1st proper short story & thinking of giving it a go.
Also, I've read a few articles and stuff on there & it seems like a promising web based magazine. Fairly impressed so far, although I've not had much experience with short story mags in the past.
Posted by tchernabyelo (Member # 2651) on :
I submitted "The Box Of Beautiful Things" about a month ago.
No response yet.
Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on :
Submit. If he likes it, he may buy it. If not, you can submit it elsewhere. You'll never get published if you don't send out your work.
Ask anyone who is published if they've ever had work rejected. You'll not find many who will say no.
Posted by benskia (Member # 2422) on :
OMG OMG OMG. I just made my first ever submission.
Posted by pantros (Member # 3237) on :
Congratulations!
Posted by mikemunsil (Member # 2109) on :
Scary, isn't it?
Congratulations on getting in the game. Best of luck with the submission.
Now, go do another!
Posted by Minister (Member # 2213) on :
Congratulations, good luck, and keep it up!
Posted by Silver3 (Member # 2174) on :
Congrats!!! FYI, the current response time, according to both OSC and the Assistant Editor is about 3 months (I think OSC wants it to match WOTF's, which he considers one of the fastest of the market).
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 747) on :
I submitted about six weeks ago and got a rejection last week. I'm curious about whether my rejection was their standard rejection or whether I should take some of the nice things the rejection said seriously. Hm.
Posted by franc li (Member # 3850) on :
Were the nice things at all constructive? If so, I'm sure it wasn't a boilerplate.
Posted by Silver3 (Member # 2174) on :
Different markets have different ways to reject. The clincher is whether: -they make personal comments which prove they have read the thing -they ask you for more.
Until we know what their form reject is, we don't know whether they're usually nice or not
Posted by Isaiah13 (Member # 2283) on :
Way to go, Benskia!
Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on :
Way to go Benskia. May you not get frustrated when you can't get three manuscripts back in the mail fast enough.
Posted by MaryRobinette (Member # 1680) on :
I don't think they have a standard response time yet. Mine has been there since mid-August. Fortunately, I have enough other stories out at market that I don't often remember to be antsy about this one.
Posted by Silver3 (Member # 2174) on :
Well, it's only his second issue. And he did say he was paying more attention to former bootcampers (actually, what he said on the other forums was that he strove towards a 3-month response time, except that he had a couple stories by former students languishing in the drawer while he considered them--or something like that).
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 747) on :
They said they would like to see more of my stuff. I'm wondering if that was just a nice way to say, "Yeah, keep trying, and good luck to you," or if they meant it.
Posted by Crotalus@work (Member # 2959) on :
If they said they would like to see more of your stuff, then I suggest you send them more. To me, that doesn't sound like a typical form letter response.
Posted by luapc (Member # 2878) on :
Hey Brinestone, I'd take that seriously. I submitted a short story and all I got back was a statement saying that they wouldn't be using it, and was free to sell it elsewhere. Sounds like your response is promising and probably means they'll look for your name when you submit again.
Good luck and never stop trying.
Posted by tchernabyelo (Member # 2651) on :
Yeah, not that I'm experienced at this kind of thing, but if I got a response from an editor saying they wanted to see more, I'd darned well make sure they saw more! No way would a standard rejection letter say "we're not going to publish your story, but send us more stuff!".
Posted by Silver3 (Member # 2174) on :
Editors never ask to see more of your work unless they mean it. Way to go, Brinestone !
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
All I know is what the click-on ad in this site says when I click on it...maybe I've missed a reference here or there, but I'm a bit vague on one extremely important detail.
Is this a print magazine or an online magazine?
I know print is an old fashioned medium and the future lies with the Internet and the Web and all that kind of thing...but I'm kinda old fashioned myself. I generally pass over online stuff, but will usually make time and space for something printed on paper, if I can find it. (I looked for it today, in my local Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million both, but not everything I want or need will pop up on their racks...)
Posted by Matt Lust (Member # 3031) on :
strictly online is my understanding. This becomes more clear if you read the submission guidelines.
Best
Posted by luapc (Member # 2878) on :
Intergalactic Medicine Show is an online mag only. Nothing is in print, but the difference is that they are paying premium prices just like you'd get from the other top magazines like Analog, Asimov's, and so on. It's aiming to be a top tier market and probably going to be as difficult to get published in as those premier magazines.
It is a little early to tell if it will last (only one issue so far), but I think considering that OSC is backing it, putting his own content into it, and committed to it, it'll be around awhile. It does pay top dollar for stories, unlike other online zines.
New content is posted continually, but the main issues are done quarterly and costs only $2.50 an issue.
Posted by benskia (Member # 2422) on :
Well. I am on a roll now. I just submitted something to that Verbsap sight, which Beth's character story (see my other thread) is on.
