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Quoth the Raven: A Magazine of Universal Rejection

Publishing and Marketing
#1

Have you ever been afraid to submit a story because it wasn’t good enough? Or because you thought it could be better? Does perfectionism prevent you from ever submitting anything anywhere? If so, then this is the perfect market for you!

Quoth the Raven is a brand new fiction market devoted to rejecting every single submission. Our pay rates are fantastic – 15 cents/word for original works and 5 cents/word for reprints. But that’s irrelevant, since we promise to reject EVERYTHING. Most submissions are rejected within 5 minutes, so there’s no downside!

More information here, including submission guidelines:
https://sites.google.com/site/quoththeravenmag/home

I hope to see a bunch of submissions soon! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies!

Daniel Lowd, Quoth the Raven Editor-in-Chief

#2

There was a lot of discussion in the Writing 101 panel that I was on at RF last weekend about how hard it can be to send out that first story, and how hard it can be to face that first rejection. This magazine is a way to help get over that initial fear. You can practice getting rejected without feeling like it means anything about you or your story – because, with this magazine, it clearly doesn’t.

#3

I feel that this magazine is proof that Douglas Adams lives on through us all. This really sounds like something that would come from his mind!

#4

Oookay. Whatever helps, I guess. :slight_smile:

Then again, I framed the first rejection I ever received (alongside my first acceptance), so I guess that initial fear wasn’t that big of an issue in my case. shrug

#5

I suspect I would still think my story was good enough to beat the 100% odds and evade rejection, and be devastated when it didn’t!

#6

Whatever you may think of a rejection letter, it sure beats the acceptance form letter where they tell you the writing could be good enough if you are willing to buy their editing services.

#7

I gotta get my head examined. I was looking at their submission guidelines and thinking, “Hmmm…”