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ScottyDM
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I've seen this before. It's great! Keep posting.
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ScottyDM
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I think it was in Maass' book, Writing the Breakout Novel, where he says his office gets around 7500 unsolicited manuscripts per year. He's an agent. He said that 99.9% of them aren't good enough to publish.
The good news is that 7 or 8 are worth a second look. 
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ScottyDM
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| Mike Regan wrote: | FIT THE TWELFTH: IT DON'T MEAN NOTHIN' TILL YOU SIGN IT ON THE DOTTED LINE...
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"Oh, dear. Now I don't know what to do. I mean, you did have it first, and I only heard just heard from Kris, and she's still considering it, so I guess -- you pay, what? eight cents a word, right? I think F&SF only pays six...."
"Um. Eight cents?"
"Well, that's what it says in Writer's Market..."
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Brilliant! A masterstroke of apparent accidental negotiation.
I heard there was one short story sci-fi publisher who pays 20 cents per word. Twenty cents! Who pays that much?
Would you belive the Sci-Fi Channel's website? I don't know that they pay that much to real authors, maybe just name authors. Money is nice, but is website publishing "real"? The SFWA doesn't think so. Also, I heard the website looses money for the Sci-Fi channel every year. Maybe the big payments will stop at some point.
Incidentally, is that where you found this, Mike?
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