[Magazine] Quantum Muse

I'm bumping this one up to confirm that "6 months after publication" has passed without pay on a published story, and a query about payment has gone unanswered for a week (almost 2, I think.). I knew it was risky, but subbed there because I liked the T-shirt (which they offer in lieu of payment). My opinion on that, of course, has changed. I strongly encourage spec-fic writers to check www.ralan.com (no affiliation) for more reputable markets for their stories. I'm quite disappointed in Quantum Muse.

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Anaparenna said:

I'm bumping this one up to confirm that "6 months after publication" has passed without pay on a published story, and a query about payment has gone unanswered for a week (almost 2, I think.). I knew it was risky, but subbed there because I liked the T-shirt (which they offer in lieu of payment). My opinion on that, of course, has changed. I strongly encourage spec-fic writers to check www.ralan.com (no affiliation) for more reputable markets for their stories. I'm quite disappointed in Quantum Muse.

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The way I finally got payment was to contact Rebecca Gallant - she was the same person St. George talked to over at mindsight. She paid me personally.
Her email is [email protected]

You might want to try emailing her and see if she can find out why you haven't recieved your tshirt.

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Kat

Thanks for the info, Kat.

They're still going. http://www.quantummuse.com/submissions.html

I've heard of them. I thought about sending something in awhile ago, but have never gotten around to it.

Apryl

Last week I heard that one of the founders left QM; I'm suprised to hear about problems with them because I always heard good things about QM.

I think many of use never really follow up on the payment which is, as I recall, a token amount.

I've had a run in with them when I was younger and less informed. Luckily I've gotten most of my old stories off of there that I felt had any value.

In fact a lot of my issues about critiques come specifically from this "peer review" website. Also I'm glad to see this website on here, I must admit at first I was hesitate to add them on there.

Thanks for letting us know.

I tried submitting to them. I was put off by their peer review system and decided to look elsewhere.

Here are some facts I've noticed as someone who was once snared into their "peer review" system:

I formatting my text to have smaller paragraphs, but because I use Safari, it reformats it because of an error on the website that makes it look like huge paragraphs. But guess who was the one that got a two star rating because of this error? This makes it where only those who use Firefox or Internet Explorer to be able to properly use the software.

On their message board, when you complain about the fact that each critique does not go into any real depth, (Like a 150 word critique) they blame you for the website formatting. But then you're the one asked to leave if you don't like it.

Magazine publication from my own understand is having a double spaced 12 point font manuscript with a word count on the side. Instead it written directly into the website, with a peer critique system in place.