In your June 12th response to Ann’s post regarding rights and payments to writers you communicated that you were considering going with flat one-time payments for stories as do Chicken Soup and Cup of Comfort. I hope you don’t. As a writer I have little respect for such publications. They also ask writers to sign up for newsletters to be alerted to upcoming themes and in these they highlight their costly writer’s workshops. To me it appears they use writers for their own gain playing on the romance of being published.

When I read your Dream of Things guidelines I was inspired! Here I thought was a different kind of short story publisher. One who gives writers the respect and royalties they deserve for their hard work. I believe the sells of your Dream of Things books are going to soar. These books have the potential to be unlike like what has come before and should be allowed the freedom to evolve into a dream of their own. When the book/books your writers are in do well, due in part to them, they deserve to reap in the harvest. f a writer receives royalties it would work to your advantage also in that these writers will be more apt to promote their books at local bookstores and through their web resources. There is power in numbers.

With Respect
Trendle

Have you notified all the authors that submitted to “Saying Goodbye” whether accepted for publication or not? I sent a story to this collection in late June and am yet to hear one way or another. I am certain, if all authors to be in the collection, have been notified that my story was not chosen, but I have not received any feedback into my e-mail yet, either. I am wondering if my computer glitched and maybe my story did not submit?

Thanks!
Jill

Anola