Business suggestion...

[j_cheney]

OK, so I've fluffed up "The Dragon's Child" and it's ready to go out...only the market I want to send it to is still closed. Hmmph!

I think that Ralan should start a side business...where you can send him your story and he'll suggest 5 good market matches for it. All for the reasonable cost of...say $5. (Somehow, I think he's going to ignore this suggestion.)

It's very difficult to 'know' all the markets. I currently have subscriptions to: Shimmer, Black Gate, Baen's Universe, Asimov's, Fantasy (actually, I think this issue might be my last)and Speculations. In addition, I have recent copies of ROF, Weird Tales, Locus....And I still don't feel like I've seen a tenth of what's out there.

OK, so if anyone knows of a good market-niche-locater out there, (who's willing to work dirt cheap) let me know!

Comments

[keesa-renee.livejournal.com]

:snickers: For the low, low price of ongoing subscriptions to every speculative fiction market out there, I will happily read over your stories and suggest, not merely five, but ten top possibilities, in descending order of appropriateness, with payscales. But maybe that's not quite as dirt-cheap as you were hoping for? ;-)

[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Could work, if you got enough takers... add the $$ together and you have your subscriptions.

Of course, then you'd make all those writers Rich and Famous and they'd leave you high and dry without renewing anything.

[keesa-renee.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, but that's why I specified magazine subscriptions rather than money. Money evaporates; with magazine subscriptions, you still have the copies you recieved, and you still have all that familiarity with the magazines. Just because I gained that familiarity to market other people's work, doesn't invalidate it for marketing my own! :-D So even if they didn't renew, I'd still have as much as I gave them left over for myself. If that makes any sense....

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

So you're saying that if everyone pitched in and bought you subscriptions to...all the important ones, you'd do it for free?

Interesting thought....