selling to the sf genre magazines
29th August 2017 | for Creatives | sci-fi, fantasy, the successful artist, writing, publishing, editors, Orson Scott Card |
"In practical terms, you'll have a better chance selling to the [sf genre] magazines if your story is (1) short and (2) science fiction rather than fantasy. My career followed that track; so did the careers of most other science fiction writers in the field."
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the publishing category
"I had discovered the first kind of boundary that marks the twin genres of fantasy and science fiction: the publishing category."
they survive by discovering new writers
"All these [sf genre] magazines pride themselves on publishing stories from new writers. What doesn't get told quite as often is that they survive by discovering new writers."
The appetite for new writers
"The appetite for new writers in the field of speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy) is still enormous. If you write competently and if your story has any spark of life, you will sell it."
hear the new voice and see the new vision
"In the long run, then, whatever is published within the field of science fiction and fantasy is science fiction and fantasy, and if it doesn't resemble what science fiction and fantasy were twenty years ago or even five years ago, some readers and writers will howl, but others will hear the new voice and see the new vision with delight."
