Friday, March 23, 2012
Save Romance!
So, recently I was talking with some WW writers and some people are concerned that the Romance feature might someday be cut from the magazine. I share this fear. So, I was thinking maybe it'd be a good idea to email the mag when there's a story we particularly like. That way they're aware that people really like that feature. It certainly can't hurt. :)
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Kate, I would like to see an expanding market for popular women's fiction. We have so many writers and very little opportunity for them to publish their work. If you get subscription offers from the various magazines, you know they can hardly give them away. They need a wide subscription base in order to maintain their plethora of advertisers who actually pay the publishing bills. A century ago, those magazines were full of stories and beautiful illustrations. I am sure they helped sell magazines and could again. Maybe we should email the publishers and urge them to try featuring fiction. The how-to articles and personal experience stories of the past fifty or sixty years have grown stale. The women's magazines are nothing but catalogs of ads now and who wants them? Short stories fit the busy woman's schedule and give her a few moment's respite.
It is hard to get anything but the most generic "romance" into WW and that may not appeal to readers. No readers, no feature.
A friend of mine (who was also published in WW) was told by Jimmy Meiss (late 1st editor who found time to chat with contributors) that they'd occasionally bumped the fiction when they had an unusually crowded issue and that, when they did, people wrote in and complained. But, I share your fears; I am seeing all sorts of freelance opportunities drying up.
Times have changed. I actually like the fact that our stories appear on one page. I used to abandon stories that I had to hunt for the rest of it... you know, continued on page 78 and the actual page numbers are so few and far between that it's hard to locate page 78?
I had heard something similar, Tamara, that there were complaints once when they omitted the romance. Hopefully they'll always remember it. I know a certain group of writers who would vociferously complain if they got rid of it! LOL
Yes, we could get a petition together, fly to New Jersey and picket...LOL
LOL Jersey. Sounds like a great time.
Kate, I see a voting scale for "There's Something About Elaine" 3/26 issue but I don't see the story.
Hi, Tamara,
Lately I've been posting two polls. One on the story I analyzed that week and one for the one "on deck." I was curious to see if the polls would turn out differently without my opinions out there to potentially influence the voters. I'm not taking down any hard data. I was just curious.
Of course. I don't know how I forgot that, after all, mine was the first one you used for the test. duh
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