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I had a poem published in a crappy local publication, for which I was paid ten dollars.
Also, an Essay of mine was once featured on a now defunct anti-Bush site.
I've yet to "make it big."
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Apart from school-related stuff published in school-related magazines back when I was into school-related things...
A short story appeared in a "literary" magazine after I'd sent it to a short story competition. The same piece ended up being published in a book that featured the best 100 stories from the competition.
TO DO: Become own hero. Push piano. Survive celebrity.
I got a poem published in this book once. Not a bestseller or anything, in fact I don't think anyone bought it, but, oh well. Like terroja said, I've yet to make it big.
[COLOR=YellowGreen][FONT=Arial]Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view, facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out. Facts are getting the best of them. Facts are nothing on the face of things. Facts don't stain the furniture, facts go out and slam the door. Facts are written all over your face. Facts continue to change their shape.[/COLOR][/FONT]
A couple of articles in professional journals. Three or four features in the newspaper. The only fiction I've published has been two shorts in a tiny local literary mag.
Decoy - I'd say the number of hits to the site does count if it's self-published or a friends site, etc. Kind of like a self-published book only counts if a lot of people read it.
If you got paid for it, that would count.
If a group of strangers chose your work over a significant number of other works, I'd say that counts.
This is all just speculation, but maybe it'll help.
eg
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One article written about our local music scene her in Asbury Park NJ...Tri City News our of AP, NJ
Still working on the often feared, liftime epic my "First Novel" Entitled "Forget me Not"
Leave Plato's cave while you still can
I thought I was going to get a poem published in this anthology, but it turns out the anthology will print anything as long as you buy the book. That's what I found based on some reviews of the previous books from this publication. It sucks, cause I was really excited. I basically told them that I didn't want to be published after all, because it wasn't something I earned. I wouldn't have minded seeing it in the book, but not like that. Hopefully I got my request to them soon enough to keep it from being printed. I sure as hell won't pay for the book now. It was really disappointingm though, because the poem is something I'm pretty proud of. It's a frustrating business, I suppose.
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Man, I haven't published anything in print for years. Then again, I haven't submitted anything for years either. Maybe the two are related?
In the past I've had a short story and two poems published in small literary magazines which I'm sure no longer in exist. I've had an editorial reply published in the NY Times, which was quite a shocker as it was the first reply to an editorial I'd ever written (and the first of only two ever).
I write for an online gaming site, the highlight of which is the preview I wrote for World of Warcraft (an upcoming MMORPG I alpha tested and am currently beta testing). It was read by the folks at Blizzard (a huge game development company) who gave me a link on their official site, which led to the largest number of reads for anything ever published on our site (almost 14,000). My work for the online site is mainly game reviews and editorials. I know that there's an argument about online publishing going on here, but I think averaging thousands of reads for a particular article and having other sites link to said article counts as a form of being published...mainly because I need to stroke my own ego :)
My only paid writing work was freelance ad copywriting for radio. I also wrote promotional radio copy as part of my actualy radio job. Neither of these things were ever printed out and distributed (beyond the producers/readers), but tens of thousands of people heard them on the air...does that count? hehehehe
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Well, I still feel a little "raw" about trying to publish anything narrative/fictionalised etc....
But...
I've been regularly published in two national magazines (both crappy kid's mags. Robot Wars and Techno Games - no great kudos) and I have written a published book/annual for the TV prog Robot Wars in Britain. I know nothing of these progs really, and I am not in any way technical. It has opened my eyes to the marketable power of bullshit.
Also, I currently write film reviews which, to my amazement, are being published both online and soon in a bi-monthly journal.
Next step is plucking up the courage to start and finish something that I really want people to read...something that I would read....
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Oh yes...and I currently write newsletters for GamesNetwork, Psychic TV and...BabeStation.
The latter is effectively porn. It is my most satisfying assignment.
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[QUOTE=DecoyRobot]I wrote a sarcastic letter to the local newspaper about how much I hate idiots who put up wind chimes on apartment balconies. Then, I made copies and left them for the offenders in my building as a warning. Does that count?[/QUOTE]
You are my new hero.
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I was once one of the runners-up in a poscard competition by the Royal Mail (the main postal service in England) when I was nine. All the other kids in the class wrote to Nelson Mandela or the Primeminister (it was John Major then) and I wrote to Robin Williams.
Some guy published my poetry on his website a few years ago. I've had some stuff in school magazines, but they basically beg you to submit an article.
This thread is quite old. I remember posting here some while ago... maybe it's a different one.
Another story published! In a real book, along with 102 other short stories, after an open competition. But, there's a new one to be published in one of the most appraised lit. mags over here - and I get paid for it. Not sure how much. Still...
So far, four published stories. Yet, more people have read my blog then these stories, since a lit. mag is a lit. mag and no one really reads it. One day though, one day...
TO DO: Become own hero. Push piano. Survive celebrity.
In the past two years I've been published a total of, (as an aside it's kind of embarassing to admit I ~know~ I've forgotten one or two.) six-seven times. Three of which got me cash, the rest were for exposure.
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I plan on finishing 4 short stories and publish them myself through Aventine Press. I was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year just a few days after my 30th Birthday. Not sure if I have enough time to immortalize myself through writing. That's why I'm trying to get as much written (fiction and poetry) as possible for publication.
How do you submit a story for a literary magazine, except for contest. Like can I just e-mail them like "hey, I'm cool, publish my great story that I have attached"? Or is it much more complicated? And how about these short story collections. Do they invite you? I'm thousands of miles away from every english or american publishing house so I can't really go there and ask in person. Is e-mail okay. I don't need to be paid. I'd just like to order the book from amazon or something,
check these sites, you might have to search for the submission guidelines.
[url]http://www.diceybrown.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.3ammagazine.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.mcsweeneys.net/[/url]
[url]http://www.greentricycle.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.yankeepotroast.org/[/url]
[url=http://smithandstephenson.net]Another LitBlog[/url]
Try these also:
[url]http://www.glimmertrain.com/index.html[/url] - 200+ page quarterly. A few contests per year ($2000 contests)
[url]http://www.nerve.com/[/url] - online 'zine which specializes in sexual stories (no hardcore, just open, frank stories about sexuality). New articles every week.
[url]http://www.missourireview.com/[/url] - College magazine that pays $30 per page.
[url]http://www.newyorker.com/site/contact/[/url]
[url]http://www.carvezine.com/contest.htm[/url] - Carve is another e-zine.
[QUOTE=stoyan]How do you submit a story for a literary magazine, except for contest. Like can I just e-mail them like "hey, I'm cool, publish my great story that I have attached"? Or is it much more complicated? And how about these short story collections. Do they invite you? I'm thousands of miles away from every english or american publishing house so I can't really go there and ask in person. Is e-mail okay. I don't need to be paid. I'd just like to order the book from amazon or something,[/QUOTE]
You shoudl pick up a recent copy of [i]The Writer's Market[/i]. Specificaly, the Novel and Short Story writers edition. In it, you'll find lots and lots of information on journals as far as contact information and what type of work they publish, how open they are to submissions, that sort of thing. Also, you'll find detailed submission guidelines (i.e. Is email okay?). It a VERY valuable resource.
[QUOTE=P]You shoudl pick up a recent copy of [i]The Writer's Market[/i]. Specificaly, the Novel and Short Story writers edition. In it, you'll find lots and lots of information on journals as far as contact information and what type of work they publish, how open they are to submissions, that sort of thing. Also, you'll find detailed submission guidelines (i.e. Is email okay?). It a VERY valuable resource.[/QUOTE]
You could try Googling Preditors & Editors. They have some good listings, and warnings if the pubs are a scam.
As for the topic at hand: 2 shorts published in real paper lit mags (total readership amounting to the six people I was able to coerce into reading them); plus one novel, Uncle Dirty, released last fall. Second novel due out this summer.
[QUOTE=alex cassun]We've discussed what have we completed, so its only natural to take it to the next level. I don't care if it was in a magazine that sold 2 copies.
I haven't sold jack-shit. What about you?[/QUOTE]
I've had a bunch of non-fiction published over the past 13 years or so. Some investigative reporting, but mainly music, book, and film reviews for local tabloids. Used to have a top-ten column in one also.
The past seven or eight years it's been a lot less, papers go out of business and I have't really been bird-dogging for new outlets for that stuff. I've been more focused on the fiction side, mainly on a novel.
Oh, and aside from the five years where my full time job included typesetting, distributing AND writing, I've never been paid a dime for anything I've written. I write because I love to do it, and the pubs I've written for don't typically pay for content.
[QUOTE=Parkaboy]I wrote The Hunt For Red October. Maybe you saw it?[/QUOTE]
Hey Tom, glad you joined the Cult. You're the 1054th best writer here!
Actually, you had a good debut and then started recycling yourself. Not as bad as John Grisham, who said all he had to say in two books. . .
[QUOTE=Chixulub]Hey Tom, glad you joined the Cult. You're the 1054th best writer here!
Actually, you had a good debut and then started recycling yourself. Not as bad as John Grisham, who said all he had to say in two books. . .[/QUOTE]
Actually, I'm the 1052nd best writer here, I called in a few favors at Langely and the two ahead of me met with unfortunate circumstance.
Sometimes I think about John and me, and how we don't have much to say, then I cry myself into my pillows of nostalgia.
Then I rub my millions on I'm my naked, middle-aged body and feel better!
A few places... I self-published two books. Published a few poems in a book and a few sites. I published a few articles on a few sites as well. You can find more of my stuff here http://www.leonbasin.net
Glad to be here with you all. We will all soon be published:)
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Short story in my college literary magazine, and nonfiction piece in school newspaper. Um...that was 1990.
Short story in Cause & Effect couple of months ago.
Short story online at Opium.net.
Two shorts in coloredchalk.org issues #1 & #2.
Working on more as we speak.
I have a scientific paper published in an Ocean Engineering conference proceedings that will be read by noone. However it is available for sale, I believe, for $20 at IEEE.org. I'm not a writer, I'm just here as a reader, but I've been published.
Think for yourself. Question Authority.
I was quoted in a local newswebsitething about two years ago I think. There was a picture of me too. I was at the library and some guys were there and started asking me stuff. That was back when I was going to be in a college/high school thing that was going on (long boring story) and they quoted me saying something like "I'm gonna miss my friends and being on track blah blah blah good opportunity blah blah blah hi mom!"
I bet I could find the link if I wanted to. But I don't.
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