For anyone who needs a laugh about all those “good” rejections they’ve been getting, check out this blog post.
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Lit Mag Submissions
Here’s a very interesting guide to submitting to literary magazines and contests free for download or online viewing.
Ebook Trends
Here’s a literary magazine that has become a publisher of ebooks.
In the past few years, I’ve noticed several kinds of organizations entering the ebook arena. Most notable are the handful of book agents who have opened publishing companies.
This is one of those indicators of how large the shift is in traditional publishing these days. When agents, and some of the nation’s top agents at that, are shifting where they spend their time, nearly anything can happen.
Keep this in mind as you consider whether to approach traditional publishers, self-publish through print and/or ebooks, or do both at once. These days, it pays to play your cards across a wide spectrum.
New Trends
No one doubts that electronic devices have dramatically changed the face of publishing today. For years, doomsayers brayed that print would shrivel and blow away. I’ve always held that the new devices would generate shifts but that print would still be alive centuries from now.
In particular, the bad-news prophets claimed that tablets, cell phones and ereaders were all supposed to suck subscribers from print versions of newspapers and magazines. For a time, that appeared to happen.
Now, however, there’s a big shift. Esubscribers are generating new and stronger sources of income for magazines and newspapers. This article presents yet another new way for readers to access their favorite journals…by paying MORE for the eversions than for print.
Green Blotter is associated with Lebanon College.
Green Blotter, Lebanon Valley College’s literary magazine, is open for submissions of poetry, fiction, photos and other artwork for the Spring 2013 issue. Undergraduate students at colleges and universities anywhere in the world are invited to submit work via email between now and February 28, 2013. See our submission guidelines for complete instructions.
WHAT is it that frightens you there? Stories you have heard? Residuals of murder you feel? The tale of the little boy–and his mother who did things she should never have done?
Drunk Monkeys is an eclectic web zine that provides a home for emerging writers and poets, offers in-depth discussion of cultural issues, and features critiques of film and television that rely on analysis rather than snark.
Workshop: Query Letters in NC
Writing the Perfect Query Letter with Laine Cunningham, presented by Alice Osborn
Location: Center for Excellence, 3803-B Computer Dr. Suite 106, Raleigh, NC 27609
Saturday, March 9 Time: 1:30-4:30pm
Fee: $55 (Early Bird till March 1st)/$75 after
Registration: Click here
Your query letter is every bit as important as the opening pages of your novel. It’s your first opportunity to show your writing skills to a prospective agent or editor. Make it count! Make it shine! A good query letter should make that editor and agent want to read your material…and it should grab their hearts in the thirty seconds or so they give each query in their pile. In this class, publishing consultant and owner of the Writer’s Resource Laine Cunningham will discuss the three important elements to inject into your query so you can get published. Fiction and nonfiction authors writing books, stories or articles will benefit from this class.
Laine Cunningham’s clients consistently garner attention from the nation’s top publishers and agents. Several of her clients’ books have been shopped around Hollywood and have received film options. She has been quoted on CNN Money, Media Bistro, and The Writer Magazine for her opinion on the end of the Harry Potter series, the “Oprah Effect,” and Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter. She has presented workshops and lectures for The Loft, the nation’s largest independent literary organization; the National Writer’s Union; The Writer’s Workshop in Asheville and writing conferences across the country.
Here’s a roundup of multiple literary magazines from Treehouse.
Literary Magazine
Writing Tomorrow is a brand new magazine. We launched our first edition October 1, 2012. We are seeking all types of quality literature and welcome submissions of original, unpublished short stories, novel excerpts, and poems. Our next issue will be out in early February.
More on the trending of literary magazines: growth and shrinkage.
From Hubpages:
Recently I found a master list of online literary magazines I had printed out in 2005, and I wondered how many of them were still in action.
Literary Magazine/Contest
The Blotter is one of the few literary magazines that still has a print run of 8,000 copies…and that’s every month! They’re reaching for 10,000 so they’re a great place to submit.
Their annual contest is still running. Submit any book-length fiction, including young adult, short story collections, literary novels, commercial novels (like sci-fi, horror, mystery, thrillers, romance, etc.), mainstream, and novellas.
Trends
Here’s good news on the magazine front from The Guardian newspaper.
New York literary magazines – start spreading the news
The death of journalism has been grossly exaggerated, according to a band of ambitious young New York writers and editors who are shaking up the publishing world
Literary Magazine Online
Here’s an interesting blog/lit mag concept called Twenty-Four Hours that’s online. It’s more of a chat about literature and other performance art but many of the posts are interesting enough to check in on now and then.
The American Reader is a relatively new journal you should keep an eye on.
Writer's Resource/Sunspot Lit 