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Market Listings & How to Submit

• Market Listing Websites
  • Don't undervalue your work. Submit to the highest paying markets first.
  • duotrope's digest: [A]n award-winning, free writers' resource listing over 2975 current Fiction and Poetry publications. MOST USEFUL FOR: Well designed searchable database of current markets allows you to set criteria like length, genre (and subgenre), payscale, and even details like whether or not the market accepts simultaneous submissions. FUN BECAUSE: With your free account you can track your submissions and not even bother with how to set up an Excel spreadsheet. Also, since other registered users do the same, there is aggragate data available on user experiences with markets. Wow.
  • Ralan's Webstravaganza: This website is so sparse I can't even find an About Me chunk of text to quote at you. Basically, this is a massive very up-to-date market listing website that specializes in speculative fiction and humor. MOST USEFUL FOR: Making sure your information is current. Ralan users are quite good at sending tips to the site editor who is, in turn, very good at getting those tips up and date stamped. FUN BECAUSE: Ralan is blunt about reporting what comes in from tipsters. Sometimes it's not just "closed for submissions," it's "backlogged."

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• How to Submit
  • Always make sure that you follow the guidelines specified by an agent or editor.
  • Query Shark: Query Shark critiqes fiction queries. You have to send a query to the shark for it to be considered. MOST USEFUL FOR: Writers who have completed a novel and are ready to shop their manuscript to agents. FUN BECAUSE: Dude. It's Query Shark. She rips people apart.
  • There is a very handy essay on the subject of "Manuscript Preparation" by Vonda N. McIntyre on the SFWA website.

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