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From: ins_amap@jhunix.UUCP (Mark Aden Poling)
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Subject: Getting published
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 15:54:36 EST
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	I have this problem.  I want desperately to be published as a
Science Fiction Writer.  The only thing is, my (formal) training is as
an Engineer, and I don't know much about Real Life when it comes to
selling the Written Word.

	Okay, enough of that.  I've got the old IASFM guide to writing
a proper manuscript, plus I've got a girlfriend who has done proofreading
on printer's galleys.  If I write anything that might be printable, the
MS won't be a problem.  The booklet Amazing is putting out on writing
SF strikes me as a tract on how to write stuff that George Scithers
might like.   I've not actually read it, so I don't know.  Does anyone
out there publish in any of the digests?  Steven Brust is off the net, if
only temporarily, or I'd write him directly.  I've written some things that
I think are saleable, and I've got an MS sitting at the offices of 
Fantasy and Science Fiction right now, and response to this or not, I'm
going to try to get published.  (Sorry for the Defensive Defiance.)
If anyone out there could/would reply to this, by e-mail or otherwise,
I'd appreciate it. 

	(Has anyone noticed that, once one has assigned a story to the
loving care of the US Postal System, one becomes a nervous wreck?  Not
to mention all the worries over what those mean nasty editors are going
to *DO* to the poor thing.  Or even the pre-response depression over
the aniticipated rejection slip.  Why does anyone do it?)

	Ah, the price of fame.
								Mark!