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.
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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).
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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.
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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
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Way to go Benskia. May you not get frustrated when you can't get three manuscripts back in the mail fast enough.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!".
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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...)
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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.
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