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Book Publishers are publishers who publish separate volumes of paper containing short story collections or novels. Publishers of all sizes, from small independents to large media conglomerates, are included on this list. Online Publishers include magazines that publish their content on-line and book publishers who create on-demand books that are downloaded from a source onto the buyer's computer, Palm Pilot, or other reading resource. Large Magazines are periodicals that have large circulations and are printed for profit. They are often printed on high-grade paper, publish popular writers, and pay reasonably well. Though most are willing to work with new or unknown writers, the competition for space is intense, and it is very hard to get published in large magazines. Small Magazines are periodicals with limited circulation, published on a shoestring budget. Many are published by schools or universities; some are published by non-profit organizations or individuals. Frequently they can only pay in copies of the title, and little prestige accrues immediately from these magazines, but there is less competition and some writers use small magazines to build up reputations over time. Agencies will shop your book to potential publishers in exchange for a percentage of the royalties. Though few agencies handle short stories by new or unpublished authors, they are an effective way to market novels without having to personally peddle manuscripts to publishers. Remember, agencies can reject your manuscript as surely as publishers. Because many agencies don't have web pages, some are included only with e-mail links. Contests and Awards are competitions that judge manuscripts by their literary merit and return rewards to the ones that are declared "best" by their criteria. Some request fees to enter their competitions, and all have different standards -- be sure to consult the criteria and the rules before submitting anything to a contest. Conventions are gatherings of professionals, fans and others associated with science fiction. Some are small and fan-oriented (relaxcons); others, such as the WorldCon and certain professionally-oriented conventions, are quite large, and are good venues in which to make contacts with other authors, publishers, and agents. BHS encourages members to present links to markets that have been valuable to them on these pages, making them available to all members to consider where to offer product. Subsidy publishers or publishers who request fees prior to publication or to finance distribution won't be considered. Markets for franchise fiction won't be considered on these pages unless they also publish general science fiction. Markets for adult material or pornography will be deleted. All members are urged to experiment with these markets and any others they may encounter to determine which are likely to be valuable publishers of members' materials. After all, why else do we write, except to get other people to read our material? If any member finds any material in these pages that doesn't agree with the guidelines printed above or that treats new or unpublished writers poorly, the members are encouraged to e-mail the managers to allow us to vet these lists to best serve our members. Likewise, if any of the links fail to work, please contact a manager so that it can be investigated and, if need be, updated or removed. BHS MANAGER BHS ASSISTANT MANAGERS |
