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New writers are given a shot in these markets that they are often denied in the pro-rate markets.
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The entirety of this psychology appears to boil down to giving those new writers who haven't been published the courage to submit to pro-rate markets.
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So the snobbery of the pro-rate market baffles me.
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Her market is a reprint, pro-rate market that -- by her own admission -- takes stories from only the pro-rate markets.
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And yet you assert that semi-pro-rate markets provide an "open door" to unpublished authors that pro-rate markets don't, that the pros maintain a two-tier system, that pros try to "pull the ladder up" on the non pros, that pro-markets return non-pro submissions immediately via email without reading it simply because they're submitted by a nonpro.
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Not to be published at all, until (if and when) her stories merit publication in a short lived but pro-rate magazine (or a member of the dying big three) or to be consistenly published in (for the most part) respected semi-prozines with loyal and sustained readerships?
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I've gotten some very detailed rejection letters from pro-rate markets and form letter rejections from below-pro-rate markets.
GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap 2009
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New writers are given a shot in these markets that they are often denied in the pro-rate markets.
GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap 2009
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I don't think the pro-rate versus semi-pro rate markets deserve such different descriptions of response times or what sort of response they'll give. even worse a rejection form email that comes back so fast that your computer is smoking from the speed of its arrival
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But many speculative pro-rate markets don't really care if you've ever been published before.
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