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|    C. E. Gee to All    |
|    Re: Definition of 'published'    |
|    22 Jun 14 12:03:39    |
      From: thelastearthman@gmail.com              On Saturday, June 14, 2014 12:43:54 PM UTC-7, William Vetter wrote:        -- back in the day, I sent a couple manuscripts to digest-sized semiprozines       that kept them for a year.              I just had a story published by "Perihelion Online Science Fiction Magazine.        Prior to submitting the story to them, I had thought the story perfect for       Analog, and had submitted it to them. Analog sat on the story for seven       months!! (7 months!!!!)        before rejecting it.               >        >        > So, yeah, if you write some experimental short story these days, you're not       gonna have a hard time finding a little magazine to mail it to. But I really       have no idea how to feel about sf e-zines when I look at them now.              E-zines and web-zines are great because they have "world-wide distribution."        The first fan letter I ever got was from New Zealand, for crying out loud.                                   >        > > Granted, some of the publishers are much less than "professional."        However, the point is to get your fiction out so others can read it.                      C.E. Gee              http://www.kinzuakid.blogspot.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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