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Aspiring Writer
| | Posted on Friday, June 10, 2005 - 02:13 pm: | |
Just how reliable is DNA publications when it comes to sending in stories and such? I've heard some bad things about that magazine, so I'm wondering about it.
And what are some other reliable science fiction and fantasy magazines? |
Sean Melican
| | Posted on Friday, June 10, 2005 - 03:07 pm: | |
Check out www.ralan.com. It's a pretty complete list, along with some warnings, and it keeps up with forthcoming anthologies. |
BJ Muntain
| | Posted on Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 12:17 pm: | |
Actually, DNA Publications is a publisher of magazines, including Absolute Magnitude and Fantastic Stories. It's not a magazine itself.
http://www.dnapublications.com/index.htm
BJ |
TCO
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 08:55 pm: | |
They are not part of the big 3. Are second tier, shifty, and worthy of suspicion and derision. |
bluejack
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 10:39 am: | |
DNA tends to be slow with responses. One of their pubs (Fantastic) once announced that they were closed to submissions in the following manner: "We are closed to submissions. Any submissions we receive will be discarded unread. We will not reply." However, they didn't update their website to reflect this. I wonder how many authors are *still* waiting for responses from that era. Currently Absolute Magnitude is overstocked.
Weird Tales is the most reputable and reliable of the DNA stable. |
John Klima
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 11:04 am: | |
And Weird Tales is no longer part of the DNA stable, being bought from DNA by Wildside Press.
JK |
Aspiring Writer
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 01:17 pm: | |
Thanks. Um, I checked Ralan's list, and I don't know if that's reliable. It seems like Ralan just goes by what people tell him in regards to whether the magazine is professional or semi-professional... |
bluejack
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 03:50 pm: | |
Correction to my previous post... AbMag is *only* overstocked in poetry. Apparently they are still reading fiction. A recent report has their response time running over 80 days.
A couple of good resources for this kind of thing:
* Speculations/Rumor Mill Market Chat:
http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/
* Black Hole Market Response Times:
http://critters.critique.org/blackholes/
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RSD
| | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 06:23 pm: | |
If you're referring to the post on the RumorMill re the 80 days, that's 80 days and still no response yet. It's a bit disgruntling (is that a word?) to have such a long response time on a market that just reopened to submissions. It's not like they could be behind on reading slush. |
Patrick Samphire
| | Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2005 - 04:25 am: | |
Aspiring writer:
The Ralan list is the most reliable and up-to-date of all the market listings. I'm sure it's not perfect, but it's as good as you'll get. |
Jill Elaine Hughes
| | Posted on Friday, June 17, 2005 - 04:38 am: | |
DNA Publications mags were all recently delisted as qualifying markets by SFWA, mostly because DNA's publisher is highly unreliable in terms of payments and timely production of his issues. He also provides terrible customer service to his subscribers (which hurts circulation), and has had multiple complaints lodged against him at the Virginia Better Business Bureau and even the Attorney General due to not honoring paid subscriptions. I'd steer clear of the whole DNA suite of mags. I am glad to hear that a reputable publisher has taken over Weird Tales. |
Sean Wallace
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 09:15 am: | |
I believe that they were unlisted because of SFWA's new payment raise, actually, not anything actually related to payment issues. |
Terry Bramlett
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2005 - 09:46 am: | |
For Weird Tales, it was the payment issue. I believe Absolute Magnitude is not considered SFWA pro because of the length of time between the last two issues. I could be wrong. |
Joe Larson
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 06:25 pm: | |
Well, I subscribed to two DNA publications last year, and after they got my money, they stopped responding to emails from me asking where the magazines are.
Tonight, I tried calling the phone number they list on their web site for potential advertisers, and I got an "out of business" message.
I hate crooks. |
John Boland
| | Posted on Saturday, August 06, 2005 - 04:59 pm: | |
They got a little of my money more than a year ago. I think I got one issue of Weird Tales, nothing more. If they haven't been able to make it, I wouldn't consider that grounds for calling anyone a crook. Publishing fiction magazines is just a damn marginal business, which is why we don't see IF, GALAXY, MIKE SHAYNE or so many others. |
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