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Bitter Irony
Grammar Goddess and Spelling Sinner

Date Joined Jun 2007
Total Posts : 82

Posted 6/8/2008 10:55 PM (GMT -4)

Not really a gripe, but a question. A friend of mine is in town for the next week or so, and I'd like to show her my contributor copy of the June Aoife's Kiss (it's a lot more complicated than that, but this is the simple version!). From past experience, can anyone say about when I should be seeing said contributor copy?

~Bitter Irony

P.S. And does anyone know how I can politely suggest that she *buy her own friggin' copy*?

From even the greatest of horrors, Irony is seldom absent.

~H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House

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RHFay
Sage

Date Joined Nov 2007
Total Posts : 1576

Posted 6/9/2008 12:40 PM (GMT -4)

Is it too glib to say "you'll get it when they send it"?

I've noticed with some of the Sam's Dot publications that my work has been in that it might take at least a couple of weeks (if not more) from the time the publication is released until the time the contributor's copies arrive in the mail. I don't really note exactly how long it takes, but I know it can be a bit of a wait.

You can always check on the Sam's Dot message board to see if an announcement is made about contributor's copies being mailed. Or, if you're worried, post a message on the boards asking if they have been mailed yet.

As for persuading your friend to buy a copy, point out that it would be really neat to get her own copy of the magazine with your work in it to show to others and say "I know that writer". Try to turn her into a fan, subtlely of course.

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"

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AlexMoisi
Neophyte

Date Joined Feb 2008
Total Posts : 65

Posted 6/10/2008 6:55 PM (GMT -4)

Anything from Sam's dot will take a while...usually a long while...I remember my copy for their last contest came a month after it was published

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