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Dragon magazine seeking fiction submissions
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 3:30 am
by The Giamarga
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:55 am
by Rotipher of the FoS
Cool!
Looks like Ari's side won the pro-fiction argument!
That makes me very, very happy. I've been a fan of short fiction in
Dragon ever since the days of oddball vignettes like
Everybody Eats Everybody On Sunday's Planet, or that one about online VR-gaming that was published back in the era of Zork and Avatar.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:46 am
by The Giamarga
I hope some of the residents send in their stuff. The fiction boards have some very good short stories...
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 5:56 pm
by Sylaire
Hey, thanks for the info. Who knows, given the ease of submission I may toss something in their general direction and see if they're having a slow month one of these days.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:38 pm
by JamesLowder
Rotipher of the FoS wrote:Cool!
Looks like Ari's side won the pro-fiction argument!
That makes me very, very happy. I've been a fan of short fiction in
Dragon ever since the days of oddball vignettes like
Everybody Eats Everybody On Sunday's Planet, or that one about online VR-gaming that was published back in the era of Zork and Avatar.
There's a discussion about the contract terms being requested by the new permutation of
Dragon here:
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=159
Cheers,
James Lowder
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 6:11 am
by Le Noir Faineant
I for my part will try to write soemthing for that contest that has a distinctive RL background and will be vaguely set in Darkon.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:20 am
by JinnTolser
JamesLowder wrote:There's a discussion about the contract terms being requested by the new permutation of
Dragon here:
http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=159
Cheers,
James Lowder
Thanks for that link! While I wouldn't consider submitting original work not set in a D&D shared world to Dragon anyway, I hadn't appreciated the full impact of signing over all rights to your work. That was a real eye-opener. And the links provided there to other magazines are very helpful as well.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:18 am
by Mouseferatu
Honestly, I'm not sold on the argument behind that article, because it doesn't seem to strongly consider the whole notion of "shared world" fiction.
It's true that it's not a good deal if you're submitting 100% original material. But for a story set in Ravenloft, or Eberron, or even one without a strong setting but obvious D&D-specific elements, it's not only a valid market, but the only one. I'm certainly not unhappy to have done so, and I'll be doing so again.