I have to say that although this is worthy discussion topic, Becky, I would hesitate to name names, simply because I know editors of journals also subscribe to you. That makes it not feel like a safe space to be completely open with experiences. Just my 2 cents.
That said, 2 of my earlier publications last year both disappointed me with p…
I have to say that although this is worthy discussion topic, Becky, I would hesitate to name names, simply because I know editors of journals also subscribe to you. That makes it not feel like a safe space to be completely open with experiences. Just my 2 cents.
That said, 2 of my earlier publications last year both disappointed me with promotion. Both were active on Twitter - which was still Twitter at that time. One editor did ONE tweet - for what was a quarterly issue. And retweeted a couple of writer's tweets. It was a journal where we all had separate links to our pages & only 11 contributors. How hard would it have been to tweet an author's work each day? Then the other didn't tweet AT ALL when the issue landed. They put it into their email newsletter. That's it. As a writer brand new to the world of submitting, this was very disappointing (and confusing). I did receive a payment for both these journals & they were no-fee to submit. BUT. After all that work to put their journals together, why wouldn't an editor want to do some basic social media promo-ing. As someone else said, it's publicity for their journal too.
I do think, out of all the examples discussed - that the one who deserve the most "boos" and to go on some kind of blacklist (hello Chill Subs) are journals that charge fees, don't pay writers AND promise to razzle-dazzle promote you, but actually do zilch.
Melissa I totally agree with you about the you about the blacklists. Someone needs publish a list of journals who don’t promote their writers ( and more importantly those who do).
I have to say that although this is worthy discussion topic, Becky, I would hesitate to name names, simply because I know editors of journals also subscribe to you. That makes it not feel like a safe space to be completely open with experiences. Just my 2 cents.
That said, 2 of my earlier publications last year both disappointed me with promotion. Both were active on Twitter - which was still Twitter at that time. One editor did ONE tweet - for what was a quarterly issue. And retweeted a couple of writer's tweets. It was a journal where we all had separate links to our pages & only 11 contributors. How hard would it have been to tweet an author's work each day? Then the other didn't tweet AT ALL when the issue landed. They put it into their email newsletter. That's it. As a writer brand new to the world of submitting, this was very disappointing (and confusing). I did receive a payment for both these journals & they were no-fee to submit. BUT. After all that work to put their journals together, why wouldn't an editor want to do some basic social media promo-ing. As someone else said, it's publicity for their journal too.
I do think, out of all the examples discussed - that the one who deserve the most "boos" and to go on some kind of blacklist (hello Chill Subs) are journals that charge fees, don't pay writers AND promise to razzle-dazzle promote you, but actually do zilch.
Melissa I totally agree with you about the you about the blacklists. Someone needs publish a list of journals who don’t promote their writers ( and more importantly those who do).