After spending some time looking over Duotrope and Ralan, I've come away a little disgusted. I've mentioned this before here. It seems to me there are way, way, waaaaayyyyy too many little niche markets and not enough general fiction markets for short stories.
I expect genres, but for the love of all that's holy, does every single friggin' little publication have to be so concise in what they are willing to publish.
Yes, I realize it's a free country, and they have a right to publish what they want. But, come on, are people thinking? How many copies of a fantasy anthology about three-legged cats that ride monkey gnomes does somebody really think are going to sell?
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Um. . . this is, perhaps, the weakest post you've ever left.
Ah crap. This wasn't supposed to be posted yet. I thought I'd just drafted it. This was a very rough draft of a post I was working on at work, and I meant to draft it and work on it at home before posting.
Oh, well. Cats out of the bag.
Sure, clean up your words so now my words look weak. I see how it is.
Your words never look weak. I mean, how could they ... you're an editor.
Nah, I wasn't sure I was going to run all that other garbage anyway.
For anyone who wants to know, it was me posting about a fake magazine's submission's policy.
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