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I'm not sure if this is the appropriate forum for this; if not, I apologize.
About eight years ago I wrote an essay on H. P. Lovecraft, which was published in an academic journal called The Explicator. And then I pretty much forgot about it. Last week, I got a call saying Cengage Gale wanted to reprint it in their Short Story Criticism, which is pretty cool. The form they sent me also included a check box to indicate whether or not I expected to be paid.
It's kind of weird - this is the first time I've ever heard of somebody being paid for literary criticism of less than book length. And they don't indicate a scale or anything; it's just, "do you require payment? If so, how much?"
I'd be happy to let them have it for free, but I'm also a fairly typical impoverished graduate student, and I can use anything I can get. Should I even bother asking for money? And, if so, how much do you think I should ask for? The essay's 1,300 words long. They're asking for, as far as I can tell, bog-standard non-exclusive rights; no transfer of copyright or anything else alarming.
Thanks for your help.
About eight years ago I wrote an essay on H. P. Lovecraft, which was published in an academic journal called The Explicator. And then I pretty much forgot about it. Last week, I got a call saying Cengage Gale wanted to reprint it in their Short Story Criticism, which is pretty cool. The form they sent me also included a check box to indicate whether or not I expected to be paid.
It's kind of weird - this is the first time I've ever heard of somebody being paid for literary criticism of less than book length. And they don't indicate a scale or anything; it's just, "do you require payment? If so, how much?"
I'd be happy to let them have it for free, but I'm also a fairly typical impoverished graduate student, and I can use anything I can get. Should I even bother asking for money? And, if so, how much do you think I should ask for? The essay's 1,300 words long. They're asking for, as far as I can tell, bog-standard non-exclusive rights; no transfer of copyright or anything else alarming.
Thanks for your help.