November 12, 2008

Paying Markets And Jobs For November 12th

PAYING MARKETS

These are NOT recycled guidelines. WritersWeekly.com only features original market listings, received from and approved by the editors at each publication.

Good Old Boat, 7340 Niagara Lane N., Maple Grove, MN 55311-2655. Email: karen-at-goodoldboat.com. Website: http://www.goodoldboat.com. Karen Larson, Founding Editor. "Good Old Boat magazine focuses on maintaining, upgrading, and owning cruising sailboats built anytime since the late 1950s. Readers see themselves as part of a community of sailors who share similar maintenance and replacement concerns which are not generally addressed in other sailing publications. Our readers do much of the writing about projects they have done on their boats and the joy they receive from sailing them." 90% freelance. Welcomes new writers. Circ. 30K. Bi-monthly. Pays 60 days in advance of publication. Publishes ms 12-18 months after acceptance. Buys First North American rights. Accepts reprints. Responds 2-6 weeks. Sends free samples upon request. Subscription $39.95 in the U.S. and Canada; $49.95 other. Guidelines online at http://www.goodoldboat.com/writers_guidelines.
CURRENT NEEDS: "Short articles about simple projects they've done on their boats." Pays $100-700 for 350-3000 words. "Any and all submission forms are OK. I prefer not to receive phone calls."
PHOTOS/ART: Pays $100 for covers. "Most other photos are included as part of articles we purchase."
HINTS: "Short technical articles about projects are the best way to break in. Everyone wants to write Cruising Memories articles. We receive way too many of those. You must be a sailor to write for us."

GreenPrints, "The Weeder's Digest", P.O. Box 1355, Fairview, NC 28730. Email: pat-at-greenprints.com. Website: http://www.greenprints.com. Pat Stone, Editor. "GreenPrints is the only magazine of personal garden writing, the human, not the how-to, side of gardening. We share humorous, heartfelt, and insightful true garden stories." 100% freelance. Welcomes new writers. Circ. 12K. Quarterly. Pays upon acceptance. publishes ms one month to several years after acceptance. Buys first North American serial rights. Accepts reprints. Responds 3 months. Sample $6.00. Subscription $19.97 U.S. Guidelines online at http://www.greenprints.com/wguidelines.html.
CURRENT NEEDS: "STORIES! Good, but true, personal garden-connected STORIES!!!" Pays $25-$200. Submit query or complete ms by mail with SASE.
PHOTOS/ART: Guidelines online at: http://www.greenprints.com/aguidelines.html.
HINTS: "Read the guidelines (please), read stories on the website (or, better yet, subscribe!), don't send how-to, cherish life, quit staring at your computer screen and go get some exercise (grin)!"

Imagination Cafe, P.O. Box 1536, Valparaiso, IN 46384. Email: editor-at-imagination-cafe.com. Website: http://www.imagination-cafe.com. Rosanne Tolin, Editor. 65% freelance. "A safe, fun 'edutainment' website. Articles in the Career-o-Rama section include interviews with people in careers of all kinds, helping kids to answer the question, 'What do I want to be when I grow up?', while other areas of the website include features on animals, history, science, and sports, plus games, quizzes, and writing contests." Typically works with published writers, "but we're willing to take a look" at new writers. Circ. N/A. Updated continuously. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms 1 week to 6 months after acceptance. Buys web rights and non-exclusive print rights. Accepts reprints. Responds 1 day to 3 weeks. Sample articles online. Subscription free. Guidelines online at http://www.imagination-cafe.com/info/guidelines.asp.
CURRENT NEEDS: "Quizzes, articles on sports, and kid-friendly recipes." Pays $25-$125 for 100-350+ words depending on department and length. Submit query or complete ms by email.
PHOTOS/ART: "Photos are a bonus!" Payment is negotiable.
HINTS: "This is not a beginners market. It's imperative that writers look throughout the entire site, reading content in all applicable departments before submitting. Also, remember that this is a KIDS market. Think like a kid--editorial voice is a no-no."

Jim Baen's Universe, Email: submissions-at-baensuniverse.com. Website:
http://www.baens-universe.com. "Jim Baen's Universe is an award-winning online science fiction and fantasy magazine edited by Best Selling author Eric Flint and Hugo Award winner Mike Resnick. We publish 6 times a year, and we accept fiction and nonfiction. We pay professional rates as defined by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, or higher. The magazine can be read online or can be downloaded in a variety of different formats, all without encryption or DRM schemes. Individual issues may be purchased." 100% freelance. Welcomes new writers. Circ. 3K. Bi-monthly. Pays on acceptance or by agreement. Period between acceptance and publication varies. They are booked for the next 8 months. Buys first serial rights, including possible inclusion in the Best of JBU anthology. Responds 7-10 days. Sample available on the website. Subscription $30 worldwide per year, access to e-ARC extra. Guidelines online at http://www.baens-universe.com/sub_guide.
CURRENT NEEDS: "We are currently closed to submissions until early in 2009." Pays $0.06/word or higher, depending on agreement for 1500-30000 words. "Send .rtf with no special coding to submissions-at-baensuniverse.com, or upload your submission at
www.baens-universe.com/submit.cgi. We do not accept paper submissions."
PHOTOS/ART: Guidelines online at http://www.baens-universe.com/sub_guide.
HINTS: "If you are a professional SF or fantasy writer, we welcome your submissions through our web-based submission engine. We look for relatively positive, fun to read material, because as Robert A. Heinlein said, we understand that we are competing with your beer money. We tend not to buy dystopian or heavily mannered writing, but everything is assessed on an individual basis."

Kar-Ben Publishing, 241 First Ave. No., Minneapolis, MN 55401. P(612)332-3344. Email: jsussman-at-karben.com. Website: http://www.karben.com. Joni Sussman, Director. Publisher of high quality Jewish content children's books. Publishes 12-15 new titles/year. Welcomes new authors. Average first print run is 5K. Offers advance. Publishes ms 2 years after acceptance. Responds 4-6 weeks. Catalog available at website. Guidelines online. Go to website and click on "Submission Guidelines" in the left-hand column.
CURRENT NEEDS: "Children's books on topics of Jewish interest including Jewish holidays, Bible stories, Jewish folktales, Jewish history and biographies. We especially seek stories that reflect the diversity of the modern American Jewish community." Advance and royalties vary. Picture books run 1000-1500 words. Submit book proposal or complete ms by mail with SASE or by email.
HINTS: "Please be sure manuscript does indeed have Jewish content. We seek child-friendly stories for kids ages infant-12 that are engaging, fun, interesting, humorous and surprising."

Living Light News, 5306-89th St. NW, #200, Edmonton, AB T5R 0L8, Canada. P(780)468-6397. Email: shine-at-livinglightnews.org. Website: http://www.LivingLightNews.org. Jeff Caporale, Editor. "Living Light News is a lifestyles Christian magazine published in newspaper format since 1995. It is an evangelical Christian publication written to encourage, unite and inform Christians, plus share the good news of Jesus Christ with the non-Christian." 75% freelance. Welcomes new writers. Circ. 75K. Bi-monthly. Pays on publication. Publishes ms approx. 1 month after acceptance. Buys all rights. No reprints. Responds up to a week. Sample available by sending Canadian postage or an international postal coupon worth $3.20 U.S. "Note: United States Stamps won't work when mailed from Canada!" Subscription $16.95 in Canada; $24.95 to the USA. Guidelines available online at: http://www.livinglightnews.org/writing.htm.
CURRENT NEEDS: "Articles about 'celebrity Christians' in sports and entertainment." Pays $0.10/word(CDN) for 650-1100 words. Submit by email to shine-at-livinglightnews.org.
PHOTOS/ART: N/A
HINTS: "Find out what publications are looking for before sending a query about something that's not what they're wanting."

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