Comments on: 2007 Form 990 – Narrative Magazine

By: HTMLGIANT / Yeah, I’m talking about this again

HTMLGIANT / Yeah, I’m talking about this again — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:07:10 +0000

[...] long since placed the Narrative Magazine email newsletter on my Spam list for their well documented stinky habits, I heard thru Twitter that they were asking people for money. (“@beoliu: Narrative Magazine [...]

By: L.

L. — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:37:40 +0000

PHM:

Well that was exactly my point earlier to justin, that I think a nominal fee would weed out 90% or more of the people who will be weeded out by a 20 dollar fee.

But as much as some people might complain about Zoetrope’s 2 dollar fee, no way will they become the scourge of writers in the way Narrative has. Missouri review charges 3 bucks, and I’ve never seen a blog post or anything attacking them, but I read them regularly about Narrative’s 20 dollar fees.

By: L.

L. — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:37:00 +0000

PHM:

Well that was exactly my point earlier to justin, that I think a nominal fee would weed out 90% or more of the people who will be weeded out by a 20 dollar fee.

By: PHM

PHM — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:58:25 +0000

Funny you should say that, L, because at Zoetrope right now there is a group of people bitching about a $2 fee. I think people would care no matter what the fee, because they feel entitled, are selfish and vain, and do not care about the future literature.

By: PHM

PHM — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:58:00 +0000

By: T. J. Forrester

T. J. Forrester — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:23:38 +0000

I like the fact Narrative sends template rejections for paid subs. Shows they aren’t sucking up trying to hook a writer for more money. I suspect they understand this is a question of ethics and made a decision not to coddle writers who pay for subs.

If Narrative didn’t have the free sub period, I’d be the first to line them against the wall and yell “fire.” But they do have the free periods, which means writers wanting in the mag have options. I choose to sub for free. Seems like a no brainer, if you ask me.

By: T. J. Forrester

T. J. Forrester — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:23:00 +0000

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:50:39 +0000

Alicia, that is fucked. You must live in the Sunbelt. When I lived in Tucson, my apt — which was a tiny standalone unit in an old motor court — housed a gargantuan hive as well. One day I found a dead bee in the shower, next the closet. When I looked outside I noticed a perptually moving grey haze circling the unit, a winged ring of Saturn. The bee guy we called climbed onto the roof with no covering, and soon started shoveling dead wet bees onto our porch that landed with a thump like laundry. He said they were likely Africanized, as that was the hip trend in bees back in 1999 in southeastern AZ. Every bee was doing it, like beards in Williamsburg and fixed gears in Portland.

I’m rambling because I love this story and as horrific as yours sounds, I have to say, it is interesting. I drank my tea with a stray ant in it, no problem. I hope you’re faring better.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:50:00 +0000

I’m rambling because I love this story and as horrific as yours sounds, I have to say, it is interesting. I drank my tea with a stray ant in it, no problem. I hope you’re faring better.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:53:45 +0000

Re: ants in your honey …

I had bees in my wall. I had to pay bee guys to haul out two huge hives and clean out about 100 pounds of honey (new honeycomb is exquisitely beautiful). I always saw bees outside and we had a very peaceful symbiotic co-existence. They never stung me until I had the bee guys come to get rid of them, then I got DIVE BOMBED. The bee guy’s face was swollen from bee stings from his previous job. They had to rip out tons of drywall, clean everything out all the honeycombs, then replace it.

It was FUCKED.