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Richard Luck

Founder: Loudlever

Publisher: Pif Magazine

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Pif Magazine : 1995 - 2010

• Published 700+ writers:– 300 never before published– 300 emerging writers – 100 established writers• PEN Award• Rea Award• Pushcart Prize• Guggenheim Fellowship• and … a US Poet Laureate

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challenges

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new press = no pressno name recognition

no track record

receive lots of poor submissionshigh school sweetheart love poems

… in iambic pentameter …

finding good writers is expensive(Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, etc.)

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established press = big mess

• 40% : poor, poor qualityeven more high school love poetry

• 25% : wrong genrenot fan fiction, fantasy or enviro- essays

• 15% : work being considered elsewhere

publishers don’t like bidding wars

• 10% : writers don’t own rights‘exclusive’ means just that

• 5% : bad timinglike it – but not right for current issue

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5% are published

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with 300 subs a month

staff of 5 spends 4 weeksto find 60 works

30 can’t verify rights15 are shelved

15 are published

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publishing is inefficient

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take the haystackto find the needle

month after month after month

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industry is fragmented

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email = submission tool

shotgun submissions

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no external rules filterslength?genre?

reading period?simultaneous submission?

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no central ‘rights’ database

does the writer own it?can a publisher monetize it?

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what about the writer?

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which publisher?read each publication

befriend the editoruse a directory

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submission?was it received?

when will they respond?is it right for them?

what now?

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is there a different way?

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publishers like the ‘known’

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Gordon Lish = Amy Hempel

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Pif Magazine =

storySouth + Missouri Review + January Magazine

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help writers and publishersfind each other faster and

manage relationships better

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for publishers

enforce specific genres and lengthswhere writer has rights to work

prevent simultaneous submissions

only during reading periods

help publishers manage what they own

discover new writers outside submission stream

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for writers

discover new publishing markets

send work to right publisher, at right address, at right time

auto-manage rejections/acceptances

help writers know what they own

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