Has anyone here been published?

I am currently working on a longer story which i hope to publish upon completion in the form of a novel. Anyone else?

 

Well, I've wanted to get published since I was, like, nine. But, as I'm still young, I'm realistic in that it won't happen for a while.

 

I have two E books published on intuition press. My novel went to a literary agency - they failed to justify the fee I paid them.

 

I have just place a novel with a small press that does print-on-demand paperbacks and ebooks. I have published with some good epublishers and in print anthologies before than and I am co-editor of an academic non-fiction book.

p.s. real agents don't almost never charge fees, they take a percentage of sales after you are published. A very small number charge nominal copying and postage charges.

 

I haven't published any fiction. I do have a non-fiction piece to my credit: "Instructional Signage: A Zoological Nightmare" Curator 32/1, March 1989. I've also been published in a few local entertainment tabloids--those things you pick up for free on the way out of a restaurant. They did pay me, however.

I figure if you had to pay someone else to publish your work, you're not published.

Oh... don't bother searching back issues of Curator for "R. August Croen." That's not my real name. If you're curious enough to get your hands on that issue from a reference library, you'll probably be able to tell which author is me.

I'm the one who included a cartoon.

 

I have various poems published in some university magazines in Arkansas and Israel and then some national newspapers in Honduras.

 

Being a journalist/freelancer, Ive had my stuff published regularly in several countries.

 

Citations?

 

Well I've been in several issues of Tapovan Prasad, a magazine out of Chennai, India. Ive also written for a few other Chinmaya Mission publications and Im a columnist for Hernando Today, where I work, though Im not too regular with it. Currently working on a book marrying Buddhism and Vedanta.

 

No, but I was told by a sucessful published author that I should have something I wrote published.

 

I was told by a successful published author (Larry McMurtry) "Never become a writer. It's a terrible life! And never get married! Writing and marriage were the worst mistakes I ever made!"

Larry was kind of a downer. I've met several successful published authors: McMurtry, Jerry Pournelle, R. A. Lafferty, Stephen King, and Ray Bradbury among them. By far, King seemed to be the happiest of the bunch. Maybe it was because he was drunk at the time.

No, that can't be all there was to it: Pournelle was drunk too, and he was a complete asshole.

 

I've had small pieces published in AAA magazine and Budget Travel. I got a check from AAA but just a free subscription for Budget Travel. That check was a thrill but seeing my name in print helped give me some encouragement to keep submitting things.

 

I've been published academically, only. I like fiction best and have thrown some of my stuff out there. It seems it is hard to get published unless you know someone. I have had some thought of the e-book route, but, there is nothing like having a hard bound copy of your work to keep!

 

I'm a writer most people have not read and hope to someday publish several books.

 

My poetry is in this new book: http://www.illuminationsbook.com

 

My GF is published regularly as a freelance journalist, but its no great shakes, she still likes to balance writing with another, regular, job as she finds it boring to do one thing continuously. Its hard work to get published for the first time but after that its easier.
So although she gets work behind the scenes as a researcher and scriptwriter for a British TV news station, her own work is published in magazines.
Her advice to people who want publication is to get a job within the industry and then you learn more about what the industry wants from its writers. Even some of the filing clerks at a publishers office have aspirations to write and regularly send work in under different names

 

I was a journalist in the IT world for a while. I now write books on both Mentalism and meditation.

MelT