I wish lit mags did more promotion too. Some have links at the bottom of stories that send you to related or similarly themed stories. I don't see why they can't do that on social media: give each author their own horn-tooting the week of publication, and the following week, connect older stories in a thread. Promote back issues, especia…
I wish lit mags did more promotion too. Some have links at the bottom of stories that send you to related or similarly themed stories. I don't see why they can't do that on social media: give each author their own horn-tooting the week of publication, and the following week, connect older stories in a thread. Promote back issues, especially when those back issues are free or heavily discounted; that brings in people like me who can't afford to buy much reading material. It's especially depressing when the only payment you get is exposure, as this author mentions. We put long hours into these stories; it's not much to ask to get promoted once in a while. Equally depressing is when the magazine folds and they don't even notify you. You just realize one day your links are broken and your story isn't archived, so you can't even point your readership in its direction.
I wish lit mags did more promotion too. Some have links at the bottom of stories that send you to related or similarly themed stories. I don't see why they can't do that on social media: give each author their own horn-tooting the week of publication, and the following week, connect older stories in a thread. Promote back issues, especially when those back issues are free or heavily discounted; that brings in people like me who can't afford to buy much reading material. It's especially depressing when the only payment you get is exposure, as this author mentions. We put long hours into these stories; it's not much to ask to get promoted once in a while. Equally depressing is when the magazine folds and they don't even notify you. You just realize one day your links are broken and your story isn't archived, so you can't even point your readership in its direction.