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And they pay too. http://othebs.com/ I just found out about this one the other day. It's a humor site that'll put out monthly issues starting in a few months. Not many humor sites pay, so this is one you probably want to submit to.
 

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ps Just sent Susie an email asking if the site would consider running illustrated tales, which is my specialty. (Sending preliminary emails like this is a great way of undermining your chances of getting published I've found. :) )
 

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Susie got back to me and said I could send over some illustrated tales, like the samp I sent. Thanks, Rgame. Will give you an update if anything favorable follows. :)
 

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Yeah, I thought about submitting a piece until I saw that. Hmmm...

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It's free, and sites like McSweeney's and Chizine also suggest you sign up for a free subscription. It might be to bump circulation, but if it's a paying market, a) I don't care, b) I might get some good ideas from it and/or get to read some cool stories, and c) that way I do know what they like to buy.
 

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It's free, and sites like McSweeney's and Chizine also suggest you sign up for a free subscription. It might be to bump circulation, but if it's a paying market, a) I don't care, b) I might get some good ideas from it and/or get to read some cool stories, and c) that way I do know what they like to buy.

Yeah, but there's a difference between a "suggestion" and a "requirement" in my opinion. I know they're just trying to get established, but there are probably less manipulative ways to gain readership.

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I wasn't even sure if I subscribed right. I thought you'd just have to give them an email address, but it had something to do with My Yahoo or My Google, things I never use.

You can scour the Internet and I don't know if you'd find more than a few sites that pay you for humor articles. I only know of one that pays better than five cents a word. For every person reluctant to subscribe, I'm sure there are ten more happy to have less competition.
 

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I wasn't even sure if I subscribed right. I thought you'd just have to give them an email address, but it had something to do with My Yahoo or My Google, things I never use.

You can scour the Internet and I don't know if you'd find more than a few sites that pay you for humor articles. I only know of one that pays better than five cents a word. For every person reluctant to subscribe, I'm sure there are ten more happy to have less competition.
*raises hand*

You betcha! :D
 

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Anyone hear back on a submission yet? I'm getting close to the four-week response time, but that's just an estimate. Also, I took advantage of their allowing five submissions at once and sent the full five. Single submissions might have come back sooner.
 

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Haven't even sent mine over yet. Been wrapped up in another project that's sapping all my time. Should be done by this week then will set my sights on this humor mag. Sending stuff to a mag that's just starting out can work real well, resulting in a steady gig, with luck.
 

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Anyone hear back on a submission yet? I'm getting close to the four-week response time, but that's just an estimate. Also, I took advantage of their allowing five submissions at once and sent the full five. Single submissions might have come back sooner.
Got a rejection -- in just a little over 2 weeks, so very prompt. I only sent in one thing. (BTW, I think it's supposed to be a funny rejection, since it also encourages additonal submissions. Umm...it doesn't perhaps come off in the manner the editor is hoping, is my take-away. Then again, humor is a very personal thing. Except when it's not. :D)

Hopefully them taking longer means they're considering accepting your pieces, Ralph!
 

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I think they're open to submissions until May. The tricky part about submitting to a new magazine is that you don't know what type of stuff they like. This one says to send them anything, but even so, they're going to end up having their own style that you won't be able to see until they do at least one issue, but probably more. That's one of the reasons I sent in five things.

A couple are science fictiony, two are what I'd say are mainstream and one's about bigfoot. Depending on what happens, I might wait a few weeks after getting these back and send a few more in April.

Sorry to hear about the rejection, Jeanne. Writing a funny rejection letter might be a good idea for a contest or an article. Oh, and the best way to write an acceptance is the way Clonepod does, which is to write "Submission Accepted" right in the email title. That way you don't have time to worry about it between seeing the email title and clicking on it.
 
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So far, no acceptance of any kind has been as wonderful as the late, VERY lamented FLYMF's...where, in the subject line, they would write, "FLYMF Loves You!"

Gads but I miss them...(notes that she needs to send James an actual reply to his message to former contributors...from December...yeah, I rock the correspondence...*snort*)

(Well, other than my agent's. Hers was pretty awesome, too. :D)
 

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Thanks Rgame. I still got time then. :)
(I got a go-ahead to submit short, humorous fiction pieces to the mag.)

A really annoying "humorous" form rejection I once got was from "The Funny Times,"
that actually had an illustration of somebody getting rejected.
Mad Magazine has a sort of annoying humorous one, too,
"Since no check has fallen out of this envelope you can assume you've been rejected."
I guess all form rejections are annoying.

Thread on this humor mag ---> http://forum.sfreader.com/default~f~31~m~70987.html
 
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I got an email from them saying all five of my articles are being held for more consideration, and it could be another four weeks until they respond. I took that for sort of good news, but I just went to their site and they apparently got over 300 submissions and now their response time is up to eight weeks.
 

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Great news Rgame. :)
I just sent my pieces over to them yesterday, so I guess I won't be hearing from them for 8 whole weeks. Sigh. :(

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Thanks, Anis. Acceptance or not, I'm looking forward to just reading the magazine. There aren't enough online humor magazines.

I think Flymf.com was the only monthly one, at least that I knew of. It'll be nice to have another one to look forward to every month, in addition to the ones that have one new piece every weekday.
 
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One out of the three pieces I sent them was accepted for the December Issue. Susan said the next submission period will be in the fall. Maybe I'll have something written by then (I've been going through a lazy period).
 
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