Playboy Fiction

Flapdoodle · Jan 28, 2006

Anyone here been published by Playboy?

Their guidelines seem fairly open - Myster, SF, etc.

I also appreceite that it's poss. one of the biggest and hardest markets...

arrowqueen · Jan 28, 2006

I think they quite like 'big name' writers too - so blokes can say: 'I only bought it to read so-and-so's latest story.'

(Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Give it a go.)

Flapdoodle · Jan 28, 2006

arrowqueen said:
I think they quite like 'big name' writers too - so blokes can say: 'I only bought it to read so-and-so's latest story.'

(Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Give it a go.)

Darn, my name's only small. Maybe I should include my middle name as well!

I did actually buy a copy of Playboy once, and was disappointed at the lack of any sort of nakedness in it - a few glamour shots. Lots of nice articles though, and a short story that wasn't particularly great.

If I were going to buy a top shelf mag, I certainly wouldn't get playboy again!

Jamesaritchie · Feb 4, 2006

Flapdoodle said:
Anyone here been published by Playboy?

Their guidelines seem fairly open - Myster, SF, etc.

I also appreceite that it's poss. one of the biggest and hardest markets...

Never been published there, but they do publish the best writers in the world by a wide magin. One thing, though. Despite what the guidelines say, they do not publish nearly as much genre fiction as they once did.

Being published in Playboy can make your career, though, so it's not a bad magazine to shoot for.

triceretops · Feb 5, 2006

I sent gaggles of shorts to Playboy during the late 80s and early 90s, and had no luck. Incredibly hard market to conquer. The bigger names won out.

Tri

katrinka · Feb 5, 2006

Playboy

Just some useless trivia:
Did you know Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 was originally serialized in Playboy in the 1950s before it was published as a novel?

Playboy Fiction

Flapdoodle

arrowqueen

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Flapdoodle

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triceretops

katrinka