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I am hearing a lot of reports about it being nearly impossible to crack into this market with no previous publishing history. It's too long for most magazines, and the ones that do accept such submissions do so from only established writers.
Serials could be a solution, but, again, most only accept already published writers.
Does anyone have any suggestions about cracking into this length? Any links to zines that publishes pieces of such length from unpublished writers?
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I lean towards "write it at whatever length it comes out, then worry about marketing it." Whatever length the story calls for, that's it. But I've only hit that range, like, once or twice in my career---things either fell out before at novelette length or blazed ahead to short novel---so it hasn't been a problem for me.
Then again, they've been real picky about picking my pickings at any length. Someone around here must have marketed one.
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As someone who's had many novelettes doing the rounds, I can assure you that they are a harder sell. For a start, fewer markets take them. And you have to be realistic: buying a novelette costs more money to the magazine than buying a short story. The novelette has to be extraordinary to sell.
I had a novelette rejected at Tales of the Unanticipated. The editor said that competition was particularly fierce in that range, because there were so few spaces but still many writers trying to place their stories.
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No, that's when I sit down to write a quick short story for the Short Story Challenge. The flash ends up as a short story Posts: 1075 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Well, now, this is easy. All you have to do is set out to write a novella, and BANG! You'll have a novel!
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