Let's Brag amongst oursleves.

[AChild]

Who is published? Where are you published?

I am self publishing my first book on lulu.com of "For Lack of Better Words" it will be ready by the end of the month.

I would like people to share their stories good or bad about sharing work with the world.

 

[Maria2394]

Who is published? Where are you published?

I am self publishing my first book on lulu.com of "For Lack of Better Words" it will be ready by the end of the month.

I would like people to share their stories good or bad about sharing work with the world.

you know I rarely brag..but..

I am in-

Red River Review

Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

Trim- Mannequin Envy Anthology

Mannequin Envy

Thieves Jargon

Zygote in my Coffee

Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets, 2006 and 2007

Clean Sheets, (poetry and a story)

Hiss Quarterly

and Poets Against War ( 2 poems of the month)


and, I have begun submitting after a year of not, so wish me luck



~m

ETA-- I have a boatload of rejections, but it is just a little canoe. I try to submit places where my work would "fit". That is the most important thing, you don't send erotica to the New Yorker, for instance.

There are some folks here whose pub credits would take 5 pages, we have Pushcart nominees, contest winners, chapbook authors, my God, there are some talented people here and I only wish I had a tenth of their tenacity and success. But, I let one man hurt me to the point where I couldn't write a poem for probably a year now, just crap. ( sorry Pat, I used the C word...) It takes perseverance, if you get turned down, try again. Matt, the editor at Thieves Jargon turned my first subs down, but gave me some suggestions, I worked on my poems and he took them.

Not all editors have the time to do that though, and sometimes, you don't even get a response. I tend not to submit to those places because I am left wondering, "did they even get it? The submission, that is.".

I find it rude, actually....not rejection, but a lack of response in either way, good or bad.

I have had some places say, submit again in a few years when you have more experience. That was The NY. I have my eye on Paris Review though. It is okay to dream big, it is okay to hope and the anticipation of a response is wildly exciting, even when it turns out not so good.

 

[Angeline]

Hey AChild, congrats on the Lulu thing. I'll check it out. And if you aren't submitting to other places, you should. You're good and I'm sure you'd get the acceptances.

I have a bunch of online and print publications. Let me think.

Exquisite Corpse
Agnieszka's Dowry
Mannequin Envy
Thieves Jargon
Zygote in My Coffee
Literary Mama
Carnelion
Poets Against the War (only 1 poem of the month, Maria!)
Barking Dogs (2 different anthologies)
Four Hour Hard On (that's Denis Hale's site; I have a story there)

That's all I can think of without checking. I know there are some I'm missing. Exquisite Corpse is one I'm especially proud of cause it's hard to get in there. I had a bunch of stuff at a great erotic literary site that is no more: Erosha. Oh and Jerry Jazz Musician had a few of my jazz poems up a few years back.

And Maria, weren't you in Poets in the Wartime (I think that's the name), too? Didn't they use one of your poems in a documentary film they made? I seem to remember that.

I have three new publications coming up, too. I'm going to submit more this year again. I slacked off on it for a while, but I need to push myself.

There are some

 

[UnderYourSpell]

The only two I can tell you off the top of my head are the very light weight ones although both for good causes. Three poems in a fund raising book made from winning entries in a poetry competition to raise money for Age Concern and one in a similar book raising money for Guide Dogs for the Blind that was judged by Caterina Irene Elena Maria Imperiali Di Francavilla the daughter of Italian marquis, the Marchese Demetrio Imperiali di Francavilla. Doesn't that sound fabulous?! In actuality she is an English televison presenter usually known as Katie Boyle!
I've got some more poems published in some heavier tomes but for the life of me I don't know where they are packed away

 

[hmmnmm]

only poetry?

 

[AChild]

Thanks for the advice

Angeline thank you for your kind words. What drives you toward the publication? How do you push yourself? I will try looking at all the of publications you have poems published in. I think one of my biggest problems is that I don't know much about the market. Aside from the "great deads" they show me in school and her of course I am really out of touch with the poetry world. I don't even know anyone personally who owns a newer book of poetry or publication.

Thanks for your words as well Maria and Underyourspell.

Hmmmmm as long as the moderators are happy I don't see a problem with bragging about what ever you want here.

 

[Angeline]

Angeline thank you for your kind words. What drives you toward the publication? How do you push yourself? I will try looking at all the of publications you have poems published in. I think one of my biggest problems is that I don't know much about the market. Aside from the "great deads" they show me in school and her of course I am really out of touch with the poetry world. I don't even know anyone personally who owns a newer book of poetry or publication.

Thanks for your words as well Maria and Underyourspell.

Hmmmmm as long as the moderators are happy I don't see a problem with bragging about what ever you want here.

There's a book that comes out once a year called Poets Market. You may be familiar with it. It's a sort of compendium of all the major (and many minor) literary publishers--journals, magazines, etc--in the US. For each one it gives some information like their submissions guidelines, whether they take email submissions or snail mail only, how long before they respond if you submit, and (this is important) how likely they are to accept poems from people without a lot of credentials. It's around 20 bucks and is well worth it because you can get a sense of what these different places want and how likely they are to accept (or even read) one's poems. And most places in there also have websites so I can see who they have published in the past. That way I can narrow down the group of places where I submit to publishers I think might like my kind of poems and might actually publish me.

I also spend time online researching. I'll go to, say, a poetry journal's site and check out whose sites are linked from there. That's another way to find good places to submit.

Pushing myself to do it is another story. I'm much more motivated to write than I am to try to publish but every few years I give myself a big push. I usually get at least a few things accepted when I do that. But I get many more rejections than acceptances. Someone once told me that for every acceptance you'll get enough rejections to paper a room. That sounds about right to me.

And then there's my holy grail. I have two rejections from them, but the last one was sort of encouraging, so I'll keep trying. But if you look at who they publish, you'll see it's an uphill battle.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I've never tried anyone online in fact I haven't tried anything for years I was just looking at the Guide Dogs one and it's 1994!

 

[hmmnmm]

Been written about a couple times. Local papers. Not lately. 10+ years ago
oh boy... another sentimental journey approaching. Wow.

 

[Angeline]

Been written about a couple times. Local papers. Not lately. 10+ years ago
oh boy... another sentimental journey approaching. Wow.

Tempus fugit, baby.

 

[Safe_Bet]

Been written about a couple times. Local papers. Not lately. 10+ years ago
oh boy... another sentimental journey approaching. Wow.

Weekly arrest reports?

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

I'll have to thank you, AChild. Thanks to this thread, I discovered $8.94 that I didn't know I had. Party at my place, right? LOL

When I saw this thread, I was thinking.. damn! I WAS published! I forgot!

LOL
Let me explain. Some of you guys know that I'm a freelance writer. I've been one for about 10 years now. I write mostly webcontent articles and only for one client at the moment. This particular client has kept me pretty busy over the past 3 years. As a freelance writer, I've done articles for different clients. This thread got me thinking about the work I have done. It reminded me of the job I had with a small publisher. I wrote a few chapters for a science textbook.

That was an exciting time... you know how it is. You start out with the idea that you are gonna be a great writer. You get a few jobs under your belt and you think you are the shit! LOL

That's about the time I decided to write an ebook and put it on booklocker.com.
It did okay at first. Then the royalties dwindled to nothing. I had totally forgotten about it. The book is totally outdated now. I'm gonna pull it. But I decided to check the balance, and lo and behold $8.94! woohoo!
LOL

AChild

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

There's a book that comes out once a year called Poets Market. You may be familiar with it. It's a sort of compendium of all the major (and many minor) literary publishers--journals, magazines, etc--in the US. For each one it gives some information like their submissions guidelines, whether they take email submissions or snail mail only, how long before they respond if you submit, and (this is important) how likely they are to accept poems from people without a lot of credentials. It's around 20 bucks and is well worth it because you can get a sense of what these different places want and how likely they are to accept (or even read) one's poems. And most places in there also have websites so I can see who they have published in the past. That way I can narrow down the group of places where I submit to publishers I think might like my kind of poems and might actually publish me.

not that I think I have anything worthy of publishing at the moment, but i have that glimmer of hope of publishing poetry. i actually ordered that book today-- with my gift certificate from the Survivor contest.

It was cheaper than I thought it would be.. like $18 + free shipping. I had enough money left over to buy a Ray Bradbury book that I don't have.

 

[hmmnmm]

Tempus fugit, baby.

Ah, making me google again, learning stuff.

Yes it does.


My picture was on a few walls.

I was a postcard

 

[champagne1982]

Weekly arrest reports?

LOL.
________

I've only 2 creds against my name. I have a poem in Red River Review and 2 inside both the (now defunct) website and the annual anthology Zygote Abstract of Red Pulp Underground.

As you say, AChild, I don't know the market to really find out who would publish my stuff. I do submit, not often, but maybe I should hire Ange to peek at my stuff and recommend a few editors to mail out to.

I've gotten a few rejections and have found the editors very kind when they send back the notice. However, I really, really want to be a drama queen and fling my hands and my poems around because a "stoopid editor" can't see real talent for being blinded by hacks with MFA's .

Congrats on the book. It's not easy even if (maybe especially if) the chapbook is self-published. Let us all know when you have it ready for POD stuff.

 

[hmmnmm]

Weekly arrest reports?

ha ha

no

 

[hmmnmm]

but, dear sb, I did do a special thing on paper, on a weekly schedule. So your intuition is not completely amiss, miss. It was a local sort of underground budget-done thing. Self-initiated and self-produced but not officially 'published' yet it was read and endorsed by local businesses who took out ad space. If that doesn't qualify for being Really Published, then okay. I mean, I didn't really risk that horrible fear of Rejection. Although, if I started to develop a crappy mood and allowed that mood to infect the content, and a few advertisers would decide they didn't want to continue... anyway, during that time I was very very very fortunate to have been in a very very very very special time and place which could not have been planned and will never happen again the way it happened. And in that time I had couple peak years. Won't lie. Life was tough but there were a few perks. Didn't pay for drinks (so I drank a lot), didn't pay to get into the clubs or wait in line, had a couple articles written in local zines and one in the big city paper. Had my picture on a few restaurant walls and... and... yeah, it was great. Nothing since has really matched it. And it won't.

Well, the wine's talking, better stop.

felt good to say that though. Thanks to AChild for the reason.

 

[annaswirls]

Congrats on getting the book together at Lulu, it is quite an arduous process to self-publish, more than one might think.

You might want to check out this thread, there is a lot of congratulations, etc to wade through, but also a bit of a history on some of the publications of litsters. http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=272373&page=40

I will not "brag" as I have not submitted nor published anything in a long time. I think it is almost long enough that it will feel like starting over, like a virgin again, that might be fun

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Congrats on getting the book together at Lulu, it is quite an arduous process to self-publish, more than one might think.

You might want to check out this thread, there is a lot of congratulations, etc to wade through, but also a bit of a history on some of the publications of litsters. http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=272373&page=40

I will not "brag" as I have not submitted nor published anything in a long time. I think it is almost long enough that it will feel like starting over, like a virgin again, that might be fun

A sort of breakthrough?

 

[WickedEve]

only poetry?

Same question I had in mind. lol
I have stuff online and in print. End of brag.
The rest of you have the stench of talent! And it's a good stench.

 

[AChild]

my baby

IT' SOOOOOOO CUTE

"For Lack of Better Words"

lulu.com/content/2054173

Don't worry the front page won't stay like that, I have just been itchin' to get it out. Lots of it can be found here some of it is from my old note books. The pictures in it are from my girlfriend Reb the master artist. She helped me with the Indesign program. If you are not familiar with adobe indesign you should check it out totally bad ass.

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Side note maybe we could come up with a thread that focuses on the process or motivation of getting things into print. I don't know how that would work. Maybe a 30 in 30 where you send a poem out for every day of the month. I don't know.