Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site jhunix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!aplcen!jhunix!ins_amap From: ins_amap@jhunix.UUCP (Mark Aden Poling) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Getting published Message-ID: <1051@jhunix.UUCP> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 15:54:36 EST Article-I.D.: jhunix.1051 Posted: Mon Oct 28 15:54:36 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 23:37:47 EST Distribution: net Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr. Lines: 28 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!