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Wish me Luck.
« on: Jun 01, 2007, 02:58:49 PM »
May be the wrong crowd to be asking to wish me, or all people, luck...but I'll take what I can get.

Anyway, I just submitted my first work for publication about a week ago tomorrow. It was a short article (about a thousand words) to FATE magazine. I still haven’t heard from them, but they said it takes from 1-3 months for a response so I'm not worried at about it yet.

What really sucks is that I had a potential contact with another FATE writer that lives in this area.  I wasn't, however, able to establish this contact before I sent the article in. I have to depend on a middleman to help me make contact with this other writer and they haven’t been able to get a hold of them. I know this person’s name and could contact them on my own, but that would then get my middleman fired. And since they also can get me in contact with a Producer that has a vacation home down here, I don't feel like burning that bridge right now. So I'm going in without an advantage.

So wish me luck...cause up till this point the only kind of luck I've had has been bad, so I'll take as much good will as possible.

« Last Edit: Jun 02, 2007, 12:54:34 AM by Rama »

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #1 on: Jun 01, 2007, 03:02:03 PM »
How would that get your middle man fired?  You would have to drop his/her name if you contacted the other writer?

Wishing you luck isn't the wrong crowd.  Asking us to pray for you would've been the wrong crowd.

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #2 on: Jun 01, 2007, 03:09:36 PM »
It would be a violation of HIPPA. Which is a new set of rules protecting patients for having their info released without their permission. I didn't even get this person's name from my middleman, just the fact that they were a writer for FATE. I learned the name from another person that just knew about what famous or semi-famous people live around here. As it stands, my middleman has to tell this person that I'd like to meet with them and then they'd have to contact me. That hasn't happened yet, because they haven’t been in contact with the writer since the first encounter when the writer expressed interest in my work, when my middleman mentioned it to them.


And no, I wouldn't ask for pray. But sometimes I think good will is almost as rare as religion in this place.

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #3 on: Jun 01, 2007, 03:38:55 PM »
No, it's here.  But like a crusted piece of snot, you sometimes have to dig really hard and painfully to get to it.
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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #4 on: Jun 01, 2007, 04:09:28 PM »
Good luck you bastich!

I don't want it to be easy, I want it to be right.

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #5 on: Jun 01, 2007, 08:17:07 PM »
I wouldn't rule out religious help just yet!


If my prayers are answered the ravens Huginn and Muninn will fly to the ear of this producer fellow and inform him of your works.

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #6 on: Jun 01, 2007, 09:51:49 PM »
Those names suck.  What about the ravens Bill and Ted?

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #7 on: Jun 01, 2007, 11:06:39 PM »
Do not mock my faith!

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #8 on: Jun 02, 2007, 01:00:51 AM »
I wouldn't rule out religious help just yet!

I havn't. I just don't think they'd be forthcoming asking for them here. Although considering how few have been answered as of late, I'm starting to wondering if I'm wasting my time. If I go "Dear God, please don't/do let this happen." I can pretty much expect the exact opposite to happen. Yet I still do it.

I've always had faith that I could make it if I got my stuff out there, I just havn't been as sure about getting it out there. It's why I started doing this freelance writing. An unfinished novel, no matter how cool, doesn't make  you any money. Plus it'll pad my writing resume if I can get published.

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #9 on: Jun 02, 2007, 11:11:10 PM »
Do not mock my faith!

Heckle and Jeckle!  Laurel and Hardy!  Britney and K-Fed!  Lois and Clark!

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #10 on: Jun 04, 2007, 03:42:36 PM »
A client of mine has almost run out of his first self-published run on Amazon.  Of course, that could be all friends & relatives, and you have to have money to self-publish, but he went through wwww.lulu.com. 

Nothin' wrong with starting in FATE magazine - after 60 years, they're doing something right.   Face Lift Kitty & I send good luck vibes.  :D
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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #11 on: Jun 04, 2007, 10:40:04 PM »
So who did Kitty's neck?

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #12 on: Jun 04, 2007, 10:47:51 PM »
A client of mine has almost run out of his first self-published run on Amazon.  Of course, that could be all friends & relatives, and you have to have money to self-publish, but he went through wwww.lulu.com. 

Nothin' wrong with starting in FATE magazine - after 60 years, they're doing something right.   Face Lift Kitty & I send good luck vibes.  :D


Yeah I don't have the cash to self publish; besides that'd be a last resort thing for me after going through normal channels. My long-term goal is to get my books made into movies. The bigger the publisher, the more likely that'll happen. But I would like to start my own publishing company later on if I can pull it.

Nope, nothing wrong with FATE other then they only play 10 cents a word, and don't take articles over 3K. The best you could do with one paycheck is 300 bucks. And they only publish once a month so even if you got one article in every issue (which unless you have a monthly column, almost never happens) you could still only make about 3600 bucks a year.

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« Reply #13 on: Aug 01, 2007, 09:16:49 PM »
Is Rama still posting here?  I havent heard of him (meaning on aim) in like years

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« Reply #14 on: Aug 01, 2007, 10:44:09 PM »
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Is Rama still posting here?

Yep.

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« Reply #15 on: Aug 01, 2007, 10:46:58 PM »
Nope.


And I'd still havn't heard from Fate. If they are going to reject it, I wish they'd just hurry up and do it so I can send it someplace else.
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« Reply #16 on: Aug 06, 2007, 09:14:50 PM »
how many pages you got?

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Re: Wish me Luck.
« Reply #17 on: Aug 07, 2007, 11:51:48 PM »
In what? The Fate article? It was only a page and half.

If you're asking about the book. I don't really know the exact count, I just know it's not done.