Donna,
Re your comment below:
> > If the former, Miki Hayden, in the most
recent
> issue
> > of MWA's newsletter THE 3RD DEGREE, reports on
a
> UK
> > magazine called THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND,
which
> publishes
> > "hundreds of short stories every year" as well
as
> > serialized novels.
>
> The very thought of any Rara Avians having
short
> stories published in
> The People's Friend makes me laugh. I think
when
> they say their
> readership ranges from 30 to 80 they're off by
about
> 30 years at both
> ends. On an unplanned visit to ER once (and
aren't
> they all?) I was
> stuck in the waiting room with nothing to read but
a
> 3 year old copy of
> The People's Friend. The nearest the magazine
gets
> to hard-boiled is if
> you forget to switch the kettle off while making
a
> nice cup of Earl
> Grey. No violence. Or sex, drugs or rock and
roll.
> Although you might
> get away with a story about a wee old lady with
an
> addiction to Dundee
> cake and a twinkle in her eye as she listens to
her
> Engelbert Humperdink
> records.
I plead not guilty. I was passing along market info, not
claiming a familiarity with the publication. Moreover I
warned that the readership demographic, as described
("traditionalist," 30 to early 80's) and the
"generalist" nature of the magazine might make anything
remotely hard-boiled a hard sell.
Since I saw the market posting in the MWA newsletter, I
assumed they at least took crime fiction. And, in their
heydey, generalist magazines on this side of the pond, like
SATURDAY EVENING POST and COLLIER'S, did publish hard-boiled
mysteries.
And, if you're a writer, it's better to know about a
potential market than not to know.
JIM DOHERTY
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