New (?) Short Story Market

seaaircarol · Jan 8, 2008

http://grassrootsmag.com/submissions.html

They pay well, but do you think we should be concerned that they spelled "complimentary" wrong??

Jenny · Jan 9, 2008

Thanks Carol. I can deal with "complimentary" errors, and have submitted a story.

If anyone else, like me, felt faint at the thought of inserting the required three spaces at the beginning of each paragraph, my solution was to remove all indentation and then Replace ^p with ^pxxx where the xxx are spacebar spaces. Have I confused everyone? Computer illiterates offering their solutions are often funny.

ElleF · Jul 6, 2008

I've been tied up and/or tied down with my job since the beginning of the year, and for the most part, I've been out of the writing loop.

Does anyone have any feedback/insight to offer on these people? It just occurred to me that I fired off a sub to them back in January, and I never heard a peep back. Not a yea. Not a nay.

Googling them didn't get me anywhere, so I'm wondering if this venture ever got off the ground. If so, maybe I'll give them another shot.

Thanks!

seaaircarol · Jul 6, 2008

Elle,

I never did submit to them, so unfortunately I can't comment. Maybe Jenny will come along and answer.

ElleF · Jul 8, 2008

Thanks. I think I'll hold off sending them anything else until I hear something/anything about them.

Jenny · Jul 8, 2008

I did submit and received an email in February saying they were still making decisions. I guess they decided against my story since a quick google (I googled "love stories magazine") shows blogs with happy authors reporting sales to this magazine. Good luck with your story!

ElleF · Jul 10, 2008

Thanks Jenny!

If I can get my act back together, I think I'll fire something off to them.

ElleF · Jul 11, 2008

Things that make you go hmmm....

I just got an email from them this morning saying they've read my story and it's under consideration!

FYI - They were overloaded by the amount of subs they received and had to hire more editors. Responses should be quicker going forward.

seaaircarol · Jul 11, 2008

Cool. Good luck, Elle!

smoothseas · Jul 18, 2008

Does anyone know what age/demographic group this magazine targets?

seaaircarol · Jul 19, 2008

This has a bit more information:

http://grassrootsmag.com/wrgu.html

Now, not only are they spelling "complimentary" wrong, they're spelling "preceding" wrong.

(and they aren't typos; both words are spelled incorrectly on multiple pages)

Appalachian Writer · Jul 19, 2008

They call "romance" stories love stories. As someone mentioned they "proceed" rather than "precede." There's a lot of hoopla about "verification that your story is original" which implies that they could refuse to pay on grounds that it isn't your original work as per their determination. Another mag on bewares and background promised writers $300 per story and several AW members submitted, were accepted, and apparently printed. In one case, it took something like 7 months and the writer was still waiting for payment while their requests for promised compensation were met with irate e-mails from the mag's editor. I'd like to make $300, but I want to be sure the money is coming should my work be accepted.

Jenny · Jul 21, 2008

A couple of days after I posted saying I guess my story was rejected since I hadn't heard from them, I got an email saying "You're story was rejected." ::sigh::

Josie · Jul 23, 2008

Hi:

I did the same thing as Jenny and wrote them saying I'd like to use it somewhere else and presumed mine to them was rejected.

Today I got a "nice" rejection letter even though they liked my writing. They asked for more. They also said things had improved now as they had hired more editors. If you look on their guidelines in red it says they want more sex in their stories as that draws more readers.

Mine was a sweet story.

So I shall send them another.

Good luck everyone

Josie

New (?) Short Story Market

seaaircarol

Frustrated Pluviophile

Jenny

Who should be writing ...

ElleF

seaaircarol

Frustrated Pluviophile

ElleF

Jenny

Who should be writing ...

ElleF

ElleF

seaaircarol

Frustrated Pluviophile

smoothseas

Life sucks... Then ya die...

seaaircarol

Frustrated Pluviophile

Appalachian Writer

Somewhere in the hills....

Jenny

Who should be writing ...

Josie