[Writingworkshop] submission attempt

[Adam Holland]

I appreciate that, thanks.
I've been to the site, but am not really actively flogging stuff right now.
This was more because of the length and because Joe recommended it.
A three - four day turnaround time isn't to be sneezed at either.
Compare F&SF's six weeks by regular mail.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Samantha F Weiss <samweiss at mit.edu> wrote:

> Adam--
>
> Ralan.com has the (pretty much complete) list of genre markets.  (Also
> specifies
> what they pay, whether or not they are SFWA approved, etc.)
>
> It is a good place to start your research.
>
> I wasn't sure if that was common knowledge or not, but I thought I'd let
> you
> know.
>
> -S
>
>
> > Gutsy move, Adam. The editor sounds like he genuinely liked it, as did
> > I. Thanks for letting us know about this.
> > Neale
> >
> > Adam Holland wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey everyone,
> >>
> >> As you may know,  *Nature* opened up its "Futures" fiction feature to
> any
> >> submission.
> >>
> >> I sent them my "Sing-song of John-Q. Post-human"
> >> .
> >> Joe had actually suggested I do that when I wrote it a few years ago,
> but
> >> submissions were by invitation only at the time.
> >>
> >> It was rejected, sadly. (My guess is it wasn't "hard" enough, take a
> >> look at
> >> their guidelines if you want details)
> >> but my correspondence with the editor was very friendly and real, and
> >> encouraging.  anyone have any ideas for pieces under 1000 words?
> >>
> >> I include the relevant pieces of it below, mostly because I imagine
> that
> >> anything surrounding submission for publication is the sort of thing
> >> people
> >> are curious about.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Adam
> >> --
> >> When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
> >>
> >> Dear Mr. Gee,
> >>
> >> Attached please find a submission for *Futures, * my story ""The
> Sing-Song
> >> of John Q. Post-Human."
> >>
> >> I wrote this while taking a course entitled "Writing SF" with author
> Joe
> >> Haldeman.  He enjoyed it, and given its length, encouraged me to submit
> it
> >> to you for publication.
> >>
> >>  The story is a humorous bio-tech reimagining of Rudyard Kipling's "The
> >> Singsong of Old Man Kangaroo <http://www.boop.org/jan/justso/kanga.htm
> >",
> >> and I find that it has a narrative cadence that works best if it is
> read
> >> aloud.  I hope that you enjoy it.
> >>
> >> I also have an accompanying poem, in the same way that Kipling's
> original
> >> did, but have left it out based on the length constraints on your
> website.
> >> If you'd like to see it, please let me know.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Adam Holland
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks very much for your interest in Futures, and for sending us your
> >> story
> >> 'The Sing-Song of John Q Posthuman'. Unfortunately it's not for us.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I have attached our guidelines, for your future reference.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for reading it, Henry.
> >> I know you are busy, but may I ask if you personally enjoyed it, even
> >> if it
> >> isn't right for Nature?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, I did, more for the quality of the writing than anything else. I
> >> think
> >> this might work in a magazine that does SF and nothing else, as a kind
> of
> >> light-relief item. For a magazine that has one SF item a week, we must
> >> steer
> >> fairly close to a conventional story format. As this is very hard to
> >> achieve
> >> in a vigntette - and vigntettes do lend themselves to non-narrative
> >> forms -
> >> I do stretch a point, as you have seen.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Don't be discouraged. You write well.  More, please.
> >> --
> >> When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
> >>
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