[stylist] Member has question

[slery]

One, this would be a great service.

Two, he should sign up for Choice Magazine Listening. (www.choicemag.com)
They have stories and articles that are well written from a variety of
different magazines with many of them being literary mags that we do not
have easy access to. While you do not get a full over-view of any one
magazine, you will begin recognize where an article came from. They are
really good about giving you the name of the article, author, and where it
was published at both the beginning and end of the article.

Three, www.duotrope.com is a great database for giving you a sorting method
to looking up possible markets. You still need to link through to the
market's official guidelines but they often will give you a little more of a
clue about something when you can't just pick up a mag and flip through to
see what they have. I typically will use them as a guide if I really see a
market that looks promising to go to the library and scan a copy.

Hope that helps.

Cindy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Robert Newman
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:15 AM
> To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: [stylist] Member has question
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> 
> Mark Chorna is a Division member. He is a guy, an American 
> transplant, who lives and works out of Paris, France. Mark 
> has the following question. I will pass on any suggestions 
> the list has for him. -
> 
> Question: I write fiction and creative non-fiction short 
> stories, from flash to long short. I can't read the print 
> magazines on the market, and therefore don't really know to 
> what magazine markets I should send my stories. I of course 
> know the New Yorker, Harper's and The Atlantic Monthly, but 
> these reviews are not running after my stories, yet? My 
> question: Are there people, consultants, associations or 
> agents who can read a short story and choose the target 
> magazine for submissions? If there is a payment necessary for 
> this service, what are the prices asked. Thank you for any info. 
>  
> President NFB Writers' Division
> Robert Leslie Newman
> Email- newmanrl at cox.net
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