I published my first short story with Tincture Journal, so I'm sorry to see them closing shop. Five years seems to be the threshold for a lot of these venues, as Zharmae, the publisher I'd signed my book with, also closed in the same timeframe.
I pay a lot of attention to the markets since I'm always trying to get writing published, but in about a decade or so I hope to start a fiction/poetry/non-fiction digital journal, so I'm always curious to see where these place go wrong. I'm pretty sure Zharmae's issues were numerous, though at the bottom of it was finances.
Tincture, though, perhaps it's just fatigue? Maybe boredom with doing the journal after five years? I didn't hear anything particularly troubling about their operation, though it did seem like a year ago they were trying to expand more aggressively, so maybe it was also a money thing. i can't even hazard a guess of how many issues they sold every month, but it probably wasn't that big a number.
Anyway, Tincture Journal, thanks for giving me my first paid publication! Really meant a lot at the time.
I pay a lot of attention to the markets since I'm always trying to get writing published, but in about a decade or so I hope to start a fiction/poetry/non-fiction digital journal, so I'm always curious to see where these place go wrong. I'm pretty sure Zharmae's issues were numerous, though at the bottom of it was finances.
Tincture, though, perhaps it's just fatigue? Maybe boredom with doing the journal after five years? I didn't hear anything particularly troubling about their operation, though it did seem like a year ago they were trying to expand more aggressively, so maybe it was also a money thing. i can't even hazard a guess of how many issues they sold every month, but it probably wasn't that big a number.
Anyway, Tincture Journal, thanks for giving me my first paid publication! Really meant a lot at the time.
