Finding the Bacon  
By Meg Weaver

Hello everybody,

Our magazine-picker, researcher Ginny McCracken, must have been very patriotic when she selected the magazines for today's column: AMERICA, AMERICAN GIRL - she even threw in the apple pie with APPLESEED'S.  And obviously, you can fit blues music into the American theme, but ARCHAEOLOGY'S DIG...?

However, this gives me an opportunity to once again get up on my virtual soap box and nag all of you about reading - and understanding - a magazine's editorial concept.

For example, AMERICA is not a publication about the country, nor is it a travel magazine.  It's weekly magazine published by Jesuits, which is not obvious when you read no further than the title.  There may be many well-paying jewels out there, if we just check them out in depth.

Also, you need to know how a magazine is different from similar publications.  BLUES REVIEW is very emphatic about covering the "full spectrum" of the music, "from country/acoustic to traditional to blues-rock, gospel and zydeco."

Say a zydeco-playing legendary musician moved in next door and you sold a profile of him to a local magazine.  Then reslant the story for BLUES REVIEW and query.  You may just be lucky and sell it, but it wouldn't have happened if you didn't know that a blues-magazine covered zydeco.

Hmm, perhaps I should haul out that story I sold on my next-door neighbor, who had drummed with Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller, and find an appropriate music magazine...

So, start making money from old reslanted stories by making it a daily habit to read editorial concepts.

AMERICA
America Press Inc.
106 West 56th Street
New York, NY 10019-3803
Phone: (212) 581-4640
Fax: (212) 399-3596

Website: http://www.americapress.org 

E-queries: You may mail, fax or e-mail the complete manuscript.

Contact: Thomas J Reese SJ

Email: articles@americamagazine.org 

Writers' guidelines online: Yes, at
http://www.americamagazine.org/guidelines.cfm 

Pays: $0.03 to $0.15 per word

Rights: All Rights

Description: America is an informative weekly magazine published by Jesuits for the well-informed reader who values independent thinking.

Circulation: 45,000

Notes: Submissions to America must be original, for a general audience and normally about 1,500 to 2,000 words.

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AMERICAN GIRL
Pleasant Company
PO Box 620986
Middleton, WI 53562-0986
Phone: (608) 836-4848

Website: http://www.americangirl.com 

E-queries: No, mail a query letter and include SASE and published clips. 

Contact: Barbara Stretchberry

Writers guidelines online: No

Pays: $1.00 to $3.00 per word

Rights: All Rights

Description: The mission of this magazine is to celebrate girls, yesterday and today.

Circulation: 750,000

Notes: American Girl is a bimonthly, four-color magazine for girls ages 8
and up.

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APPLESEEDS MAGAZINE
Cobblestone Publishing Company
99 Perkins Point Road
Newcastle, ME 04553
Phone: (800) 821-0115
Fax: (207) 563-6997

Website: http://cobblestonepub.com/pages/appmain.htm 

E-queries: Mail, fax or e-mail.

Contact: Barbara Burt

E-mail: barbara_burt@post.harvard.edu 

Writers' guidelines online: Yes, at
http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/writersAPPguides.html 

Pays: $0.33 to $0.50 per word

Rights: All Rights

Description: Appleseeds is a 32-page, multidisciplinary social studies magazine for children ages 7 - 10 (primarily in grades 3 and 4).

Circulation: 15,000

Notes: "Our magazines are not advertiser-supported, which means your young readers are exposed only to accurate nonfiction about their world, without commercialization."

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ARCHAEOLOGY'S DIG
Cobblestone Publishing
30 Grove Street, Suite C
Peterborough, NH 03458
Phone: (603) 924-7209
Fax: (603) 924-7380

Website: http://www.digonsite.com 

E-queries: No, mail a query letter

Contact: Rosalie Baker

Writers' guidelines online: No

Pays: $0.20 to $0.25 per word

Rights: All Rights

Description: This magazine is designed to educate its readers on subject matter that includes history, art, mathematics, paleontology, geology, anthropology, and more.  Youngest age is 8, oldest age is 13.

Circulation: 50,000

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BLUES REVIEW
Straight Up Corp.
Route 1 Box 75, Salem
WV 26426-9604
Phone: (304) 782-1971
Fax: (304) 782-1993

Website: http://www.bluesreview.com 

E-queries: No, mail a query letter.

Contact: Christine Kreiser

Writers' guidelines online: No

Pays: $0.10 to $0.16 per word

Photos: $20 - $25 per photo

Rights: All Rights

Description: Blues Revue embraces the "full spectrum" of the music, from country/acoustic to traditional to blues-rock, gospel and zydeco. 

Circulation: 33,000

Notes: Blues Revue is a 10-issue-per-year publication dedicated to covering the full spectrum of America's music: the blues.  It is the largest feature-length blues publication in the world.

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Air Mail Markets
By Amy Brozio-Andrews

Hello again and welcome to the latest issue of Air Mail Markets. This week's markets are playing payment and rights information close to the vest (with the exception of Australia's Andromeda Spaceways magazine - paying quite nicely for fiction, actually). If anyone has worked with either of these magazines and would like to share details with your fellow freelancers, please feel free to drop me a line and I would be happy to include your comments in an upcoming issue. 

Queensland Brides and Sportdiving magazines may be tough markets for freelancers to crack. Both of these Australian publications would like to see high quality photos accompanying text. So if you know of any professional shutterbugs, consider collaborating.

Bonne chance!

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Queensland Brides
PO Box 1670
Coorparoo DC
Queensland Brisbane
Australia 4151

Website: http://www.queenslandbrides.com.au 
Tel: +61 7 3217 4654
Fax: +61 7 3217 4906
Editor: Ginny Cumming
Email: ginny@queenslandbrides.com.au 

Snapshot: Publishing four seasonal issues per year, Australia's Queensland Brides offers advice and recommendations on all aspects of planning a wedding, including choosing caterers, reception halls, flowers, etiquette, wedding fashion, honeymoon planning, stationery, wedding coordinators and more. 

Writers' Guidelines Online: No
E-Queries: Accepts
Payment: not specified
Rights: not specified

Notes: Freelance submissions should be about 1000 words in length (including title and subheading) and be accompanied by professional photography. 

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Sportdiving Magazine
MOT Publications PTY LTD,
PO Box 167,
Narre Warren VIC 3805
AUSTRALIA.

Website: http://www.divetheblue.net/sportdiv.htm 
Tel: +61 3 5944 3774
Email: email: sportdiving@motpub.com.au 

Snapshot: Published for over 30 years, Sportdiving magazine is Australia's only Australian-owned scuba diving magazine. Published six times per year, the magazine includes diving related articles on travel, diving medicine and marine life. 

Writers' Guidelines Online: No
E-Queries: Accepts
Payment: not specified
Rights: not specified

Notes: Accepted articles generally run 1500 - 2000 words. The writers' guidelines advise including as much factual information as possible, and avoiding excessive descriptions. Accompanying photography is key to accepted submissions.

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Andromeda Spaceways Submissions 
PO Box 98 
Latham ACT 2615 
Australia

Website: http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/ 
Email: submissions@andromedaspaceways.com 

Snapshot: Andromeda Spaceways is a new Australian magazine publishing science fiction and fantasy. The first bimonthly issue was launched at the Convergence SF Convention in June 2002.

Writers' Guidelines Online: Yes at http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/budget/asim1.htm 
E-Queries: Accepts
Payment: Upon publication, short fiction payment rates are $1.25/word (USD$0.70) - minimum $20 (USD$11) per piece. Poetry and flash fiction payment rates are $10 (USD$5.60) per piece.
Rights: First Australian Serial

Notes: Science fiction, fantasy and horror short stories up to 10,000 words will be considered. Poetry up to two pages in length will be considered. The magazine prefers stories that are "fun" rather than "gritty". No simultaneous or multiple submissions; Please make sure your submission includes full contact details (postal address, e-mail, and phone number). 

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Amy Brozio-Andrews is a freelance writer living in New York;  she writes on a variety of topics for print and online publications, and is hard at work on her first novel.  Please feel free to check out her website at www.penpadandpixel.com, and e-mail her at amy@penpadandpixel.com. 

But It's Not A Bookstore! Part 4
By Rusty Fischer  

The Author of BEYOND THE BOOKSTORE Reveals Five (Other) Places to Sell Your Self-Published Book

Now that we’ve learned a little more about promoting your self-published book, here are 5 more alternate retail outlets where you can start selling it:

HO, HO, HO!

You may have never shopped in one, but they’re out there: Year-round Christmas stores.

Read the rest of this article by clicking here.