Friday, July 31, 2009

Too Old for This Shit

Zines that find humor in driving writers crazy. Ran across a zine called Low Rent. Click on the enter picture and there's a notice. "Sorry, we're out" then up comes a flock of blackbirds. Start clicking on the birds looking for guidelines - "Notice the writing on the wall. Find the appropriate word. It's magic.". And this was under Faqs where the guidelines are usually hidden. Yeah! Out of there.

Finding markets is hard enough without the publications amusing themselves by being cutesy. And they wonder why they get inappropriate submissions?

4 comments:

David Cranmer said...

And thank goodness you're clearing the path for us!

sandra seamans said...

Yeah, it looked like a good market, and it was a print publication but I couldn't find the guidelines, if they paid, what they were looking for. The entire faqs page was a bunch of cutsey questions and answers that said very little.

sandra seamans said...

BTW I loved your new action figure ;-)

David Cranmer said...

Thanks! :)