I am in a quandary.
I have a short story, round about 1800 words, which would fit rather well in a "religious" (read: Christian, or possibly Unitarian), Inspirational magazine, or an "angels among us" sort of publication... if any publications fitting that description ACTUALLY PUBLISHED FICTION!
Most of the pubs that look like good fits turn out to only want personal essays of the autobiographical sort.
I'm been shopping the story around mainstream literary magazines, starting right up there at the insanely optimistic level of Glimmer Train (rejection), DoubleTake (discontinued), and Tin House (jury's still out). But should the manuscript come home to me again, I would love to send it someplace that seems more of a match than just "This isn't genre fiction; they don't publish genre fiction."
Anyone got ideas here?
And: was this the best place to post this? I couldn't decide between here, or "Sharing Leads", or "Genre: Christian". And it probably wouldn't be good etiquitte of me to post it in all three simultaneously...
I have a short story, round about 1800 words, which would fit rather well in a "religious" (read: Christian, or possibly Unitarian), Inspirational magazine, or an "angels among us" sort of publication... if any publications fitting that description ACTUALLY PUBLISHED FICTION!
Most of the pubs that look like good fits turn out to only want personal essays of the autobiographical sort.
I'm been shopping the story around mainstream literary magazines, starting right up there at the insanely optimistic level of Glimmer Train (rejection), DoubleTake (discontinued), and Tin House (jury's still out). But should the manuscript come home to me again, I would love to send it someplace that seems more of a match than just "This isn't genre fiction; they don't publish genre fiction."
Anyone got ideas here?
And: was this the best place to post this? I couldn't decide between here, or "Sharing Leads", or "Genre: Christian". And it probably wouldn't be good etiquitte of me to post it in all three simultaneously...
