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Submission Guidelines - Heroic Fantasy Quarterly ***************JULY 2013, ISSUE 17 UPDATE************************* To readers and contributors alike: We apologize for running behind on publishing HFQ Issue 17 — real life has a way of getting in the way of fantasy, as we all know. And real life has been kicking our butts lately. HFQ will publish its next issue by 8-1-2013. Check back often . . . and thanks for your patience. CONTRIBUTORS: if we’ve requested a complete from you, please know it’s on hand and we’ll be in touch soon; you have a good chance of being published at HFQ. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is open to FICTION submissions four months per year. March June September December If you submit fiction in any other month, you will receive an auto-response and your tale will not be reviewed. We remain open for POETRY submissions at all times, however, so keep those coming! As its name suggests, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is a quarterly ezine dedicated to publishing heroic fantasy — in both prose and poetry. Submission Method:

Why every blog post should be crossposted to LinkedIn and Medium — Marketing & Growth Hacking By Simon Owens Earlier this month, I completed a 1,500 word feature story on why the scholarly publisher PLOS is teaming up with Reddit on an ongoing science interview series. I had put a good deal of work into the piece, interviewing editors at PLOS, scientists who had been published in its journals, and moderators at Reddit. If I had written this article a year ago I would have simply published it to my blog and then devoted all my energy toward directing my social media followers to the piece. If I was lucky, a tweet of mine would float across the screen of someone influential on Twitter who had thousands of followers, and his or her retweet would direct a flood of readers to the article. But just as often as not, my article wouldn’t attract much notice and it’d lay stagnant on my blog, boasting only a handful of tweets and likes. But on LinkedIn and Medium, the results were much more encouraging. But it turns out many of these concerns were overblown. Like my writing?

‘Too Holy To Print’: The Forbidden Books of Jewish Magic The Tablet Longform newsletter highlights the best longform pieces from Tablet magazine. Sign up here to receive bulletins every Thursday afternoon about fiction, features, profiles, and more. A story from the field: In the fall of 1995, while working on my dissertation in Jerusalem, I learned that an important magical compendium by the 17th-century Rabbi Moses Zacuto, Shorshei ha-Shemot, had been published in the city. Strangely, the book was unavailable in stores and could only be purchased directly from its publishers. The rabbis explained to me that it was their duty to determine the nature of the interest of prospective buyers before selling any copies of the newly printed work. Rejoice Kabbalists and exult Sages [acrostic in Hebrew: YHVH] at the publishing of the book Shorshei ha-Shemot (Roots of the Names) by the honorable rabbis Rav Shraga Boyer and Rav Shraga Eisenbach, may they live good long lives, may God protect them and grant them life. J.

The 7k Report – Author Earnings Published: 2/12/2014Written by: Hugh Howey It’s no great secret that the world of publishing is changing. What is a secret is how much. The problem with these questions is that we don’t have the data that might give us reliable answers. This lack of data has been frustrating. Anecdotal evidence and an ever more open community of self-published authors have caused some to suggest that owning one’s rights is more lucrative in the long run than doing a deal with a major publisher. Other entertainment industries tout the earnings of their practitioners. When I faced these decisions, I had to rely on my own sales data and nothing more. This data provided one piece of a complex puzzle. When Amazon reports that self-published books make up 25% of the top 100 list, the reaction from many is that these are merely the outliers. The Value Ratio I’m going to start with some of the smaller lessons to be gleaned from this data. Listening to Reader Demand Now take a look at this chart: The experts?