Question for you

[jayphoenix.livejournal.com]

As a writer, when you are looking for places/sites to submit your work to, what do you look for?

Is it name value; is it an actual printed publication as opposed to electronic only; is it something else?

In terms of payment do you only look for sites that pay you for your work and, if so, is there a minimum that you would accept (for example I know sites that make a ‘token’ payment of $1) or are you happy with the ‘prestige’ of your work being chosen in the first place? Would recompense that isn’t financial (so, a piece of art, for example) count as payment?

Do you look for open submission sites or do you prefer ones that focus on a specific genre or theme – or even sites that run different genres/themes regularly?

Thanks in advance for helping me by answering these questions!

Jay

Comments

[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

I'm on novels rather than short pieces but this is what I would look for first and foremost:

#1 is that they have to accept the genre I'm writing. Check out their guidelines to see what they are looking for and do not send things they aren't looking for. (Like, don't send hard SF to a romance mag).

#2 check Predators and Editors to make sure they are legit and not scammers.