[epub] Article submissions to dirt word publications

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Doug Green <flowers@simplegiftsfarm.com> Wrote some
things

> If you snail mail the *same* article to 40 print 
> magazines - you need your head read. You'll only do
it once if -by chance - more than one editor > wants
to buy first N.A. rights. You won't get a second
chance with print editors unless you are very, very,
very good.

Cantu says, This is offered under the belief that one
may want to submit articles to dirt-world publications
as a promotion tool for one's ezine (I do.)

Common wisdom in the publishing world: €  ’±Don't submit
to more than one publication at a time.  Lest two
editors want to buy it'

Cantu's wisdom: Editors can sometimes take 3-4-5
months to reply (I am a writer with 30 years
real-world experience).  I don't want to tie one
article up that long.
As for what will one do if two editors want to buy
article - what will one do if hell freezes over?  One
will worry about it when that day comes.  One finds it
hard enough to get one editor in 100 interested let
alone two.
I will tell you what my experiences are when that
result occurs.

> Single submissions - 
> 
> *If* the editor knows you - you'll always get an answer. 

Cantu's wisdom - If the editor knows you - you'll
always get an answer assuming that the editor hasn't
been fired, quit, been reassigned to another
department, suffered a sudden change in personalty
(all of which I have experienced)

Cantu's wisdom: Regarding if you're established in the
field - you'll always get an answer, I haven't a clue
as to what it take to be established in a field.
 
>On the other hand, if you're not established or 
known  
> then
> 
> if you include a SASE, then you'll get at least an 
> acknowledgment

Cantu's wisdom: You may or may not get a reply.  It
may or may not be in a week, a month, six months or a
year or more ( I have gotten replies back so late, I
had forgotten I wrote the original article.  Thus my
no longer waiting to submit one-at-a-time
sequentially)
Your manuscript may or may not be returned.  It may or
may not have writing on it in ink, coffee stains,
folds or tears that make it unsuitable to submit
elsewhere without re-typing) and other damage and
evidence that editors do not cherish your manuscript
to the degree you do.
It may or may not be accompanied by some form of
rejection slip formal preprinted or personalized to
some degree.

> if you don't include a SASE, then it depends on the 
magazine and the idea
> you submit.  Good ideas get responses, others . . . 

Cantu's wisdom:  I no longer include a SASE because of
previous observations/experiences I have written
above.  If the editor wants it, he/she will send
acceptance letter and release forms to signed and/or
check at their expense or will send check after you
bill them.
> 
> Good magazines will usually send at least a postcard
 or  the typical form letter inside the SASE envelope.

Cantu's wisdom says €  ’±Good magazines' doesn't
necessarily mean €  ’±the biggest,' €  ’±the ones with the
largest budgets,' €  ’±then ones who's name you
recognize,' €  ’±the ones you see on the magazine racks in
stores' . . . €  ’±Good' is a tautology and means pubs
that usually send at least a postcard or the typical
form letter inside the SASE envelope

<SNIP>

> It all depends. :-)

Cantu's wisdom.  I concur.  It all depends.

PS: I have been the editor of several small dirt world
newsletters and am well aware of the lack of time and
the limited budget that often keeps a well-meaning
editor from being perfect in dealings with writers.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Tom Antion started his speaker's ezine in January
1999.  Using his ezine as a template, I published my
first CantuHumor issue March 1999.  I have 475
subscribers. Antion now has 12,000+ subscribers.  I
found out why here: 
http://www.antion.com/t.cgi/102055/buttcamp.htm



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