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crystalwizard
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Posted 12/4/2007 12:17 PM (GMT -4)

narrativium said...
crystalwizard: both the sjgames magazines state in their "writing for us" pages that they explicitly don't accept submissions of fiction or poetry.

And? They're still good markets and you still reach a large audience with whatever you get into those mags. They're gaming mags. They're a specific venue, so you write for that venue.

H.P. Lovesauce
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Date Joined Jul 2007
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Posted 12/4/2007 5:47 PM (GMT -4)

Very true, CW; I think narrativium, like myself, was still focusing on the subject of gaming-industry fiction markets.

Rob Santa
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Date Joined Apr 2004
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Posted 12/6/2007 1:19 PM (GMT -4)

Dragon was the only market, way back in the day, that used to regularly send me personal replies with commentary on my stories. They did that for years before they became swamped and needed to switch to form letters. I credit one of the editors there (and I don't remember her name - which is tragic) for helping me transition from a total novice to someone who started to sell stories. It was because of the same comment I received for two diffetrent stories: something like "your writing is terrific, but these are story standards we've seen a hundred times." That got me to thinking about my stories and flipping the driving concept on its head. Lo and behold, the next story I wrote sold (first sale), paid on acceptance (woohoo!) and then got pulled (my first kill, another woohoo!).

I loved sending stories to Dragon and am happy to see them accepting more work. Those S&S tales we all have that keep getting the dreaded reads-like-a-roleplaying-game rejections should fit in nicely.

Rob Santa

Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction

and CEO of Ricasso Press

Jeff Edwards
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Date Joined Jul 2004
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Posted 12/6/2007 5:20 PM (GMT -4)

I was just in Barnes & Noble on my lunch break and saw 1 copy each of the "final issue" of Paizo's Dragon and Dungeon. Cover date was September 2007. It was interesting to actually see these in the store after the online discussions about the mags.

Dungeon had been removed from its wrapper, so I flipped through it and mainly saw gaming material. Dragon was still sealed up so I couldn't take a look at what kind of fiction they published in the final issue.

-Jeff

Jeff Edwards
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Dragon Angel
Lord Dragon

Date Joined Sep 2004
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Posted 12/6/2007 7:32 PM (GMT -4)

I guess you aren't enough of a nerd to know what these magazines are.

Dungeon publishes role playing scenarios. There are typically about 4 per issue, and nothing else. One of them might be about an evil tower and all of the monsters and traps and characters would be written out so you'd be ready to role play them. There are never any stories in this magazine.

Dragon publishes reviews, stories (sometimes), comics, role playing supplements (like a new race or class), and etc. The odds of finding a piece of fiction in a particular issue are probably somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 3.

read free fiction and poetry at http://www.geocities.com/davidolson22/index.html

Part dark, part light. And gooey in the middle.

HTKuehl
Kaylee is watching you

Date Joined Jun 2007
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Posted 12/14/2007 11:00 AM (GMT -4)

According to Ralan.com, submission guidelines are no long up for Dragon Magazine...

**~**~Heather~**~**

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Forthcoming:

"Pluto: a Ghostly Planet With a Million Possibilities." The Drabbler Issue 10: Haunted Spaceports, 2008

"Raising the Dead." Bewildering Stories: Issue 289, 2008

"The Date." FLASHSHOT, Feb 08, 2008

"Hocus Pocus." Pen Pricks, Dec 2007

"Rabbit Stew." Pen Pricks, Dec 2007

"Between Life and Death." Pen Pricks, Dec 2007

Out Now:

"The Wicked Deed." Every Day Fiction, Dec. 11, 2007

"Barbie's Revenge." FLASHSHOT, Dec. 10, 2007

"The Desire of Selkies." Gryphonwood, Nov 2007

"Library Gnomes." FLASHSHOT, Oct 28, 2007

"Ghosts." Tuesday Shorts, Oct 16, 2007

"Strange Candy," "Trick or Treat," "Pumpkin Carving," MicroHorror, Oct 2007

"The Kiss of Death." MicroHorror, Sept 2007

T A Markitan
aka Wicked

Date Joined Dec 2007
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Posted 12/14/2007 12:30 PM (GMT -4)

Last time I looked into Dragon, last year maybe, I was under the impression they were closing for good?
I am not a gamer, but I used to pick up the odd copy of Dragon for the fiction, cartoons (mainly DragonMirth) and the artwork.
I still have three of them.
Issue 154 had one short fiction story, Raistlin and the Knights of Solamnia by Weis and Hickman.
Issue 155 had one short fiction story about fey, but I didn't recognize it as a book tie in.
Issue162 had one short fiction story in it, A Prayer for the Dead by Deborah Millitello, again I didn't recognize it as a novel tie in. That doesn't mean it wasn't, I just didn't recognize it.
If they were still running like that, I would still be buying them, even though the game stuff was useless to me. The Dragon Mirth section died out a long time ago and I believe they tried to revive it a couple years ago, but couldn't get enough submissions.
The art made me pick it up, the stories and cartoons made me keep picking it up.

I do horrible things to punctuation.

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