i heard a few months back of a student discount card that you can get for each individual city?

Posted on August 6th, 2011 by admin in discount magazines | 4 Comments »

does anyone have any idea what its called? im not sure if its a card but its discounts for your city. i read about it in a magazine this time last year

There are a couple of new-ish services that give big discounts for e.g. restaurants, cinema, spa sessions, specific to your city.

It is not a students-only thing but it is worth a look whether you are a student or not.

http://www.onedaydeals.co.uk lists the good ones

Phil

How many magazines can I send the same short story to for publishing?

Posted on August 3rd, 2011 by admin in magazines | 2 Comments »

I want to get as much chance of exposure as possible. If I write a short story to submit to magazines in hope of being published, how many magazines can I send it to at once? I don’t want to have problems if more than one magazine picks it (not trying to sound too-sure of myself – just trying to educate myself on the subject). Thanks! :)

You may send it to as many magazines as you like, and it’s recommended that you do so.

Some publishers will specify "no simultaneous submissions," meaning they would prefer not to receive stories that you are sending elsewhere. However, feel free to ignore this. For one thing, there is no way they will ever know. For another thing, your odds of getting accepted anywhere are fairly low, regardless of how good your story is. I was a fiction editor at a literary magazine for two and half years, and I calculated that we accepted less than 2% of all submissions. Many places will hold on to your story for months before rejecting it. You’re better off sending that piece out into the world as much as possible. Most publishers and editors are aware of these statistics and understand that authors must submit as widely as possible.

It’s imperative that you keep good records of where you are submitting. If you do sell a story that has been submitted to multiple magazines, you must send a letter to every other magazine to which you’ve submitted it. Do not say that you sold it elsewhere. Simply write, "I regret to inform you that my story, "XYZ," is no longer available for publication. I apologize for the inconvenience." There is no reason for you to ever tell an editor that you are sending simultaneous submissions.