by Lea M.
Member since:
September 8, 2007

Anyone have a publishing credit to share?

September 21, 2007 01:21 AM EDT
views: 59 | rating: 10/10 (7 votes) | comments: 17

I got a check in the mail today. It's an infrequent happening lately, so I was giddy and danced around the sofa with my tongue out - waving the check in my husband's face. I sang (in a 6-year-old's style), "I got a cheeeck, I got a cheeeck."

I think I succeeded in making him hate me for about twenty minutes (while he tried to watch a TV show). Hee-hee. I don't care.

Anyone got a publishing credit - recent or not - they'd like to share? Come on! Don't be shy! We want to hear them!
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Comments: 17

James s F. Sep 21, 2007, 1:22am EDT
I've sold ten stories to The Front Porch, but I understand they are pulling in the rug to new submissions.
So sad.
Joyce C. Sep 21, 2007, 1:32am EDT
Mmm, I have had letters published in our local national paper. Mostly about feminism and conservation. :P

:)
Shawn M. Sep 21, 2007, 1:49am EDT
<----- author of the novel "Slayer Team Alpha" and the soon to be released "Blood Oath"
J.C. Alexander Sep 21, 2007, 10:20am EDT
I'm still working on it!
Paul Allen Leoncini Sep 21, 2007, 10:41am EDT
!988 Signed by Wild rags records...92,93 signed by Chainsaw records...Band's Name Infamous Sinphony...can find track @ myspace...or my solo release in 2004 Rocket Propelled god also @ mysapce...

P.A.L Guitarist. vocals, writer, lyics
Paul Allen Leoncini Sep 21, 2007, 1:09pm EDT
Here's the url

myspace.com/rocketpropelledgod
Trish A. Sep 21, 2007, 11:37pm EDT
I've had poems read in theatrical pieces. One theatrical piece is called Mountain Women Rising. The other theatrical piece is part of the New Mummers Writer's Exchange Piece and was done in Kentucky and NYC.
Marilyn M. Sep 22, 2007, 2:19pm EDT
Congrats, Lea! It's always nice to have checks to wave around. My last published item was as a guest columnist in the Cincinnati Enquirer about a month ago. Before that, for Front Porch.
Suzette Vaughn Sep 22, 2007, 11:05pm EDT
I have a poem published somewhere, but I don't remember where. Yes that's bad of me. Otherwise no.
Congrats Lea!
Lea M. Sep 22, 2007, 11:36pm EDT
I'm very proud of everyone! Congratulations! I like knowing where fellow gatherers are writing.
Jo C. Sep 23, 2007, 5:18pm EDT
How recent or far back, lol? My first publishing credit was for an article about lemmings for a local newspaper written for "Cappy Dick" which was a children's section of the newspaper which paid for the best submissions from young readers and even had a grand prize award to the best. I got paid and then got a set of encyclopedias for "grand prize" (which my mother nearly refused, thinking it was a slick sales tactic; it wasn't).

I went on to become a freelance writer and then a book reviewer as my life changed and I had to be home more and devote more time to family. Freelance writing was very time-consuming as I had to interview people, transcribe interview segments, put together an article quickly and then deal with possible last-minute revisions. Most of my articles would be published without major revisions after the editors got to trust my work. Even so, it was very time-consuming, although I learned to write and type quickly and follow certain formulas for specific articles like health pieces. There are certain things readers want and with a minimum of words.

My last published piece appeared online at AC. It pays regularly.
Stephanie B. Sep 23, 2007, 5:28pm EDT
I won 2nd prize at a poetry contest (published) at 17 and got $75, wrote several short stories for the now-defunct PLOT magazine (one each, first three issues, for $75 each), had a poem I wrote sent in by my roommate published in a Catholic newspaper and have written/coauthored six papers for various conferences.
Lea M. Sep 23, 2007, 6:07pm EDT
Jane,
What is AC?

I also write health-related articles. My biggest one (an award winner) was about generic drugs. About 4 different magazines and a newspaper ran it. I'm proud of that one.

Your mother sounds like mine. :-)
James s F. Sep 24, 2007, 2:17pm EDT
My story "Polka Dots and Sunshine Teardrops" was published in the Summer 2007 issue of Pure Inspiration magazine. (And they said they doubled their usual remuneration because everybody in the editorial room had out tissues.)

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977109224
El Toro Bravo de Amor Sep 27, 2007, 9:00am EDT
I recently got a three dollar check from some bookstore that evidently sold a copy of my haiku chapbook "Persimmons" Shadow Poetry online sells them too but this was a brick and mortar store. I might treat myself to a mocha!

Acorn bought some haiku from me before. I've been in Simply Haiku, White Lotus, tinywords, and have been published on the haiku page of Mainichi Daily News in Japan (a few times)
Ken C. Sep 27, 2007, 11:59am EDT
I have a book that was in the 5,000's on Amazon at its peak in Y2K. I should have grabbed screenshot as a souvenir, I ain't been ain't been anywhere near that since.
Lea M. Sep 27, 2007, 1:44pm EDT
James, cool!

Bret, it's fun getting a check - for $3 or $3,000. Shows someone "out there" values what you have to say.

Of course, The $3,000 check would SHOW me much more, but whatever.

:-)

And Ken, my sir - you are just like other classics. They may not still be on the Top lists, but they hold their own just fine.

It's the content. Always the content.

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