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Publish Fiction (Even When It Might Not Fit?)

Publish Fiction (Even When It Might Not Fit?)

This is random, but how cool would it be if a trade or lifestyle magazine you enjoyed took a small risk and was willing to occasionally publish fiction?

Fiction – but relevant fiction.

  • Maybe a crop insurance magazine had a monthly fiction column relevant to farming.
  • A quarterly real estate zine could have a section for poetry submissions.
  • Or, an investment journal might be willing to publish short stories with a financial tilt to them.

They should be publishing young writers too.

I think most people and organizations discount the value in taking small risks like this.

Someone might think it “off brand.”

But it might be a hit.

Several years later, after I had self-published four or five of the Hank books, The Cattleman began running the books as serial stories. They ran a Hank chapter in every monthly issue for seventeen years, and it became one of the most popular features of the magazine, a magazine that “didn’t publish fiction.”

-John Erickson, Story Craft (Amazon)

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