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[Father Luke]

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Winter/Spring 2011 edition of The Fox Chase Review invited me to submit a few poems.
I emptied my pockets and sent them whatever was written down. They are going to publish two of them.

Here:  http://www.foxchasereview.org/Welcome.html

Still unsure about how I feel about internet "publishing".
To my mind all that means is that something I've written is
accessible, free of charge, literally forever, on the internet.

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[astronacht]

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I have mixed feelings about internet publishing. I think it's great that it's so highly available and accessible, but at the same time it kind of deflates the punch of getting published. I'm pretty sure you feel how I feel when I have something accepted in an online format: "Great, but is it really worth getting excited over?"

This is probably a little strange coming from me considering I'm the editor of an online magazine, but it shouldn't really be that surprising. Xenith is a low cost, low maintenance vehicle for providing relatively unknown authors with a space appropriate for their work. I guess sometimes you have to be happy just knowing that someone, somewhere, is reading your work. There again I feel that way about all non-paying venues.

I guess the key is to be prolific and just get your work into as many magazines as possible--online or in print. And my philosophy with submitting is to start at the very top and work my way through all the rejections until someone finally takes pity on me and publishes my work. At least that's how I roll with fiction. I currently have work pending at some of the most intimidating, competitive markets in the country. I don't really anticipate success in that regard. I just figured it's free, so why not give it a shot?

[Father Luke]

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Well, here's an additional wrinkle. I've never been rejected. Not ever.

Winter/Spring 2011 edition of The Fox Chase Review invited me to submit a few poems.

The only publishing I have ever done has been by the publisher's request.
So, where did they hear about me? My own website, of course.

Steve Martin once said, "You have to be so good they can't ignore you."


I don't know that I will accept any more "invitations" to be "published" online.
Not for free, anyway. I mentioned this at another place on the web, and I was chided,
and called all manner of names. I noticed the name calling was being done on a site
with plenty of google advertising.

I rest my case.

[redperil]

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I like handling paper. Even if I end up liking a poem on the internet, I always have to fight the urge to hate it, simply because of what I'm reading it on. I know that sounds odd given my participation on Mary, but I separate what I read as part of a workshop from something which is presented as the finished article.

I would never have found your writing without the internet, so it does have the power to spread your words to distant shores.

[Father Luke]

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Alright. I'll be copying the internet to DVD and printing it out for
my close friends and family for the Winter Holidays.