February 17th, 2011 / 5:14 pm
 Behind the Scenes

Submissions are not the lifesblood of a magazine. Readers are.

I felt like being catty today I guess.

“Viable.”

33 Comments

  1. February 17th, 2011 / 9:16 pm Lincoln Michel—

      Is there a way to “like” a post here?

  2. February 17th, 2011 / 9:22 pm Trey—

      yup, right above where it says “showing x comments”

  3. February 17th, 2011 / 9:22 pm Trey—

      yup, right above where it says “showing x comments”

  4. February 17th, 2011 / 9:24 pm Zachary German—

      Number one white cop killer in America, nay, the world.

  5. February 17th, 2011 / 9:24 pm Zachary German—

      Number one white cop killer in America, nay, the world.

  6. February 17th, 2011 / 9:26 pm karl taro—

      so, do I just submit my story here in the comments section?

  7. February 17th, 2011 / 9:26 pm karl taro—

      so, do I just submit my story here in the comments section?

  8. February 17th, 2011 / 9:41 pm adam m.—

      funny

  9. February 17th, 2011 / 9:49 pm drew kalbach—

      the ethics of this! the ethics!

  10. February 17th, 2011 / 9:51 pm Mark C—

      this feels even more relevant after reading Daniel Nester and Steve Black’s study on Bookslut.

  11. February 17th, 2011 / 9:53 pm Ryan Call—
  12. February 17th, 2011 / 10:07 pm James Yeh—

      Long live the dead website.

  13. February 17th, 2011 / 10:13 pm M. Kitchell—

      “why does it look dead, it is a website”
      is maybe my new favorite thing ever

  14. February 17th, 2011 / 10:35 pm Nathaniel Wanley—

      “Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor of The New Yorker, said last year that writers submitting to the slush pile aren’t very savvy about about the business of publishing and therefore must not be savvy about writing” Maud Newton.

      Having no submission facility is a much more ethical way of excluding the preterite masses of the non-savvy.

  15. February 17th, 2011 / 10:38 pm Anonymous—

      long live the new flesh

  16. February 17th, 2011 / 11:06 pm shaun gannon—

      “is X viable” and “is X dead” are two very different questions

      but similar in that they are both dumb

  17. February 17th, 2011 / 11:24 pm BAC—

      what’s always puzzling to me is this: why the hell do non-solicited submitters think so dam highly of themselves? you are not a customer. this in not a restaurant. assume you will be rejected. assume you are wasting your time. good magazines are not quilt clubs. just because you’re around doesn’t mean you’re important. what’s wrong with that? it’s fine not to matter. think about all the people in the world who have no idea you exist. it’s okay. exist when you can and be nothing most of the time. just like everybody else. you’re no different just because you have an e-mail account. you’re no different because you pressed save on the DOC file. if a party is taking place and you weren’t invited it doesn’t mean the party has ceased to be. it only means you need to figure out another way to pass your time.

  18. February 17th, 2011 / 11:32 pm Mark C—

      yeah, that one!

  19. February 17th, 2011 / 11:51 pm Sean—

      Oh, fucking A!

  20. February 18th, 2011 / 1:37 am Jimmy Chen—

      before i published ‘a lot’ i simply wanted to publish ‘a lot’; i think that is an honest feeling. i don’t think the internet made humans glib, i think humans made humans glib. i can’t wait until all the websites is dead, then i can be alive again. 404 is god’s street address.

  21. February 18th, 2011 / 1:54 am deadgod—

      blake is publishing a submission

      sonant capillaries

      win win

  22. February 18th, 2011 / 2:00 am deadgod—

      chaos is subletting, with a view to granulating the foundation

  23. February 18th, 2011 / 2:00 am Morry Ale Liver—

      A sumbitchshun is the lifeblood of Oedipal overthrow?

  24. February 18th, 2011 / 2:06 am elizabeth ellen—

      cattiness is underrated as a survival technique. catty blake is my favorite blake. (did i get the whole anus, p.h.? i know you watch for that shit.)

  25. February 18th, 2011 / 2:39 am darby—

      writers need readers. magazines just need money.

  26. February 18th, 2011 / 3:24 am M. Kitchell—

      the capitalist mode of appreciation is a dead scene man, in the future everything is free

      as kathy acker said “There should be all the food and medicine you need […] Luxury, fun, etc. everywhere all the time.”

  27. February 18th, 2011 / 3:34 am Robert Swartwood—

      The lifesblood of a magazine is reading fees. HIGH reading fees. Duh.

  28. February 18th, 2011 / 3:36 am darby—

      that sounds fine. i didnt mean to express an ideology. just an observation.

  29. February 18th, 2011 / 5:57 am shaun gannon—

      the lifeblood of a magazine is actual blood

  30. February 18th, 2011 / 6:29 am James Yeh—

      that and guts (or is it “butts?”)

  31. February 18th, 2011 / 6:45 am jesusangelgarcia—

      butts.

  32. February 18th, 2011 / 8:09 am zusya—
  33. February 18th, 2011 / 7:42 pm William Owen—

      As a writer, and among the writers I know, he writer’s natural condition is wanting to punch most things most of the time, so this seems about right.