Re: [epub] Article Submission

["Donna Schwartz Mills" <dmills@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Dale:

You raise excellent points, and I am an editor who is guilty of not
responding to every article submission I receive.

No, I do not have 200,000 subscribers -- but I publish two ezines
three times a week to a combined subscriber base of 53,000.  I have a
website to maintain.  I only have 20 hours per week to work while my
little one is in preschool (but I probably put in 40 hours, which
causes stress in my family).

Answering every email was easy when I first started out.  Nine months
later, I am swimming in the stuff.  I *delete* 1000 messages each
week, much of it spam.  I probably keep about 50 -- much of it
articles.

I am on several mailing lists to receive articles. I glance through
them to see if they are on topic for my ezines and website and file
them into one of 20 different topic folders for use when I need them.
Because writers want to get the most exposure, they list their
articles with several distributors, so I get many duplicates. The
moment I see that it is a title I already have, I delete the
message -- why bother reading the whole thing again? Most of the ones
emailed directly from authors were already received from the services,
and if there is no personal message, I delete that too.  I *will*
respond if I am asked a direct question and if the message is
personalized for me.  But if the message is addressed to "Dear
Publisher" and there has been no effort to match the article topic
with the focus of my publications, I'm not certain that courtesy is
necessary.

Otherwise, I do not contact the authors until I run the article -- I
do not know if I will be running the article until I reprint it.  I do
make an effort to contact the authors and send them a copy of the
ezines that feature their articles.

Would some kind of acknowledgment that I've received each author's
message be nice?  Yes, and when I get around to changing my email
program to one that will better autorespond to types of messages, I
may do so.  But right now, I find myself pressed for time -- counting
down the hours between when I've dropped my daughter off at school
until the time to pick her up again.  I need to cut corners -- and
email niceties is the area where that usually happens. I'm not proud
of this.

Anyway, thank you for bringing this topic up. I shall try to do better
in the future.

Donna Schwartz Mills
Editor, NOBOSS Online and NOBOSS e-Marketing
http://www.noboss.com
Editor/Webmaster, The NOBOSS ParentPreneur Club
http://www.parentpreneurclub.com



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