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The Lounge at the End of the Universe => The Writing Forum => Topic started by: lowky on April 30, 2010, 09:00:46 PM
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Thanks to Corey Doctorow and John Scalzi pointing out that Asimov's is now accepting electronic submissions to their magazine.
http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.shtml (http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.shtml)
http://whatever.scalzi.com/ (http://whatever.scalzi.com/)
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Cool!
Pity I have like maybe two scifi stories total, and hardly the hardest of science involved, to boot...
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Thanks to Corey Doctorow and John Scalzi pointing out that Asimov's is now accepting electronic submissions to their magazine.
http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.shtml (http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.shtml)
http://whatever.scalzi.com/ (http://whatever.scalzi.com/)
Amazing, they finally got an email account. Cool! Now it won't cost me $2 to get a printed form rejection.
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Very good news!
Hopefully F&SF and RoF will follow suit soon...
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Very good news!
Hopefully F&SF and RoF will follow suit soon...
Seriously. It costs me more like five bucks to get the form letter, 'cause I have to print at the library. >:-|
Of course, they're probably just as happy not to hear from me...
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Very good news!
Hopefully F&SF and RoF will follow suit soon...
Seriously. It costs me more like five bucks to get the form letter, 'cause I have to print at the library. >:-|
Of course, they're probably just as happy not to hear from me...
I think I spent something like $15 to get two rejections. Fortunately both came with personalized letters, so it was worth it, because both made the story better. But it was $15... (I don't own a printer because the ink ends up costing ruinous amounts of money.)
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Cheez - personalised rejections! One step away from publication :)
Only ever got one of those, and that was near 20 year ago
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Cheez - personalised rejections! One step away from publication :)
Only ever got one of those, and that was near 20 year ago
I've gotten about a dozen over the past year (not from Asimov's). Although to be honest I'd rather have no personalized rejections and that story published by Asimov's... :)
For every personalized one, though, I have 20 or so that are form.
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Hm. No personalised rejection and loads of frustration trying to do the stamped addressed envelope thing from the UK. At least being booted back won't have involved standing in a queue at the post office next time ;D
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As it's been revived, I'll threadjack to ask those of you who've applied to both pubs with email submissions and online form submissions if you've greatly preferred one or the other? Does the more certainty you're getting the formatting/necessary info down with the online form outweigh any additional hassles?
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As it's been revived, I'll threadjack to ask those of you who've applied to both pubs with email submissions and online form submissions if you've greatly preferred one or the other? Does the more certainty you're getting the formatting/necessary info down with the online form outweigh any additional hassles?
Admittedly, email subs can be easier if the market takes attachments. When you have to reformat a 6000 word story from standard manuscript format to single spaced text file with line breaks instead of indents and _characters to set off italics, it's a pain in the trunk (car not elephant) and always, ALWAYS, introduces errors of some sort, and always forces going back to the original manuscript and fixing things that get changed in the body of the email (this is also inevitable). I've got the reformat process down to about 10 minutes of work with a text editor and search/replace in Word, but that's still ten minutes I could be spending on a query letter or whatever.
Online form submissions are a crap-shoot as I never know what the thing is going to do to the format of my submission. Typically I weigh whether or not I really like the market before using an online form to submit, unless it simply allows me to upload a document as an attachment.
There's my 2 cents. Add 150 of your own cents and you can get a small coffee at Dunkin Donuts in beautiful downtown Derry, New Hampshire.
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I'm with Derego, email subs are nice but the text reformatting can be a pain. It's alleviated a bit by keeping a copy of the text file in the same folder as the main file and only altering it when I make revisions (which I usually don't do once I start submitting). Then I check the modify date for both before the next time, and as long as the text file has a more recent modify-by date then I don't need to redo the process.
I don't really mind web forms, and I really like the ones with shnazzy tracking systems that give you additional information, especially the ones that tell you your number in the queue (like Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Electric Velocipede).
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I write flash. Standing in a queue can take longer than writing the darn thing in the first place! :D
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As it's been revived, I'll threadjack to ask those of you who've applied to both pubs with email submissions and online form submissions if you've greatly preferred one or the other? Does the more certainty you're getting the formatting/necessary info down with the online form outweigh any additional hassles?
I love online form submissions that are attached to the clarkesworld sub system, because it's worth the online sub to get the down to the second queue info. If it's an online sub system that doesn't give me any feedback, it's six of one with an email sub, imo, email slightly better because I can check what I sent when I'm feeling paranoid.
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Online submission systems that send out a notification e-mail (WITH the story's title) are also good. (That way, when I'm doing a paranoia check on whether a given story is under consideration or not and I search my mail for the story title, I don't miss it.)
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I've also really liked the Clarkesworld/Lightspeed online form. Being able to see where you are in the queue is keen, even if it also encourages obsessive refreshing and the biting of nails.
I'd say I like online form and email submissions about equally, provided you can upload your .doc/.rtf/.txt file. The online submission forms that require you to copy/paste into a text box NEVER keep my formatting, so I spend time grumbling and muttering and making sure all the line breaks and italics are in the right places.
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Pretty much agreeing with the last few posters - online sub forms are GREAT and easy and keep me from being too paranoid, especially when you can view your place in the queue.