Points of Interest: Silly Editor, Tricks Are For Kids!

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• 14:07 - Catching up on 39 backlogged writing newsletters. + Interesting articles and markets!
• 14:20 Dear editor: Charging $2 to submit a short story "to defray the costs of switching to online submissions" is B.S.

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Comments

[joeboo-k.livejournal.com]

I have to know...who's charging? My Disdain-o-meter needs something to aim at.

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

Like the saying goes.... money flows towards the writer. Any market that charges to submit only deserves my disdain and mockery.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Don't remember the name, since I didn't add it. It was some literary magazine that actually paid reasonably well--but charging to submit? No. Not acceptable.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can sort of understand contests that charge entry fees if they need them to fund the pot and to hire high-level judges, but I don't submit to them either. Regular pubs? No. It's something I've seen more than once in literary magazines, though.