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For duotrope, I wouldn't use the subgenre feature too much; it limits things too far for me. You can get more accurate readings by just doing genre and doing the rest yourself.
I use it as a convenient Costco-like warehouse of markets. Also, like veinglory, for response times.
I actually primarily use the grinder, so I'm unaware of all the going on at duo trope. (I can't afford the payed subscription service.)
It would be nice to know the current market acceptance rate though.
(I'd be leery of anybody that has a 0.1 acceptance rate.)
Well like my uncertainty is still going.
Of course rejections is fine, I'm still a beginner. Or at least have no way of knowing otherwise. I hardly ever submit.
Plus sometimes you have to find the best market for it, as its not always going to be a perfect match.
(I do adult fiction with middle grade protagonists.)
I actually primarily use the grinder, so I'm unaware of all the going on at duo trope. (I can't afford the payed subscription service.)
It would be nice to know the current market acceptance rate though.
(I'd be leery of anybody that has a 0.1 acceptance rate.)
Have you looked at the Grinder? It's free.At first I balked when duotrope went subscription, but then I thought about it. For $5 I get an up-to-date short story fiction market search engine that saves me a ton of time versus trying to search for markets using Google or an outdated library copy of Fiction Market. Plus it keeps track of my submissions. To me, $5 is a bargain in aggravation-free submitting.
To clarify: I meant I'm skeptical of anything with an acceptance rate of 0.1 or higher. Lower is absolutely fine.XD
I wouldn't be proud of myself if I sent and got accepted to a zine that had say, ... a 0.5 acceptance rate.
I wouldn't have found Cricket without the grinder, its a life saver.
It is, which is why I did donate to them and promote their site when it was free. When they decided to charge for their services, I looked at their fees and decided it would cost more than I felt the service was worth. For me. There was concern, too, about the validity of their data, considering the smaller sample they'd be working with. I switched over the the Grinder so have no way of validating whether or not Duotrope's data is as good as it used to be. I'd love to hear from those who are still using it.The Grinder is awesome. I really think a free market listing is important to a healthy short fiction/poetry/non-fic market.
To be fair to duotrope, though, upkeep and maintenance on such a listing is incredibly high.