I should be writing...
May. 13th, 2007 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritBut instead I'm poking through Ralan's and seeing what the latest publishing buzz is.
First of all, there's one anthology looking for dragon stories, and another looking for lycanthrope stories. Hey, SCORE, thinks I...until I look at what they pay.
Dude. Anthologies pay CRAP. Fer serious.
That being said, I have no idea if my cred would be better for having been published in an anthology rather than magazines. And I really wish that Renard's Menagerie would get back to me on the DragonFic. I didn't even get an acknowledgement of my sub to them, and I think that three months is quite long enough to have the thing and make a decision. And I really want to send it to F&SF.
And THEN. What do mine eyes behold? Nicky the Goth is doing an anthology and calling for subs? "Payment to be discussed at publication"? Published by lulu.com?
Um.
Lulu is one of the better vanity presses out there, by all accounts, but it IS a vanity press. YOU pay THEM. Plus, Nicky can't write his way out of a paper bag with a sharp pencil, so I can definitely understand why he's soliciting other writers for this anthology. I just... gargh... It's Nicky the frelling Goth, people... Is there anyone in the online horror world who doesn't know that he's a wanker extraordinaire? I mean, name recogition is one thing, but I don't want my name to cause people to go screaming in panic in the other direction, y'know?
I'm just glad I didn't have a mouthful of anything when I saw that, because it would have messily made acquaintance with my laptop screen, and nobody wants that.
First of all, there's one anthology looking for dragon stories, and another looking for lycanthrope stories. Hey, SCORE, thinks I...until I look at what they pay.
Dude. Anthologies pay CRAP. Fer serious.
That being said, I have no idea if my cred would be better for having been published in an anthology rather than magazines. And I really wish that Renard's Menagerie would get back to me on the DragonFic. I didn't even get an acknowledgement of my sub to them, and I think that three months is quite long enough to have the thing and make a decision. And I really want to send it to F&SF.
And THEN. What do mine eyes behold? Nicky the Goth is doing an anthology and calling for subs? "Payment to be discussed at publication"? Published by lulu.com?
Um.
Lulu is one of the better vanity presses out there, by all accounts, but it IS a vanity press. YOU pay THEM. Plus, Nicky can't write his way out of a paper bag with a sharp pencil, so I can definitely understand why he's soliciting other writers for this anthology. I just... gargh... It's Nicky the frelling Goth, people... Is there anyone in the online horror world who doesn't know that he's a wanker extraordinaire? I mean, name recogition is one thing, but I don't want my name to cause people to go screaming in panic in the other direction, y'know?
I'm just glad I didn't have a mouthful of anything when I saw that, because it would have messily made acquaintance with my laptop screen, and nobody wants that.