Writing markets you never knew existed...

[jhetley]

...and now kinda wish you'd never heard about.

Received in this morning's mail a thrilling offer for a free subscription to ONSITE WATER TREATMENT magazine. (This being the architectural office mailbox, which shares space with the writer mailbox and the junk catalog mailbox and all the others.) Representative article: "Septic Tank Types: A Survey" by Charles D. Bader.

So all you aspiring writers out there, have at it! This is the July/August issue, Vol. 1, No. 1, so they seem to be proposing 6 issues a year and Will Need Material. And if you sell chlorination systems or septic tanks or composting toilets for a living, I'm sure they'd like a chunk of your advertising budget.

Hey, at least they provided Wife and Self fifteen minutes of chuckles on a Monday morning, which shows points ahead right there.

Comments

[suzilem.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the writer of this tome might be interested.....

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0898159393/qid=1123515877/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_2/102-4936617-7092144

hey Jim!

[wolfette]

I was talking to my friend Ginjer Buchanan, SF editor at Ace Books, this weekend (yes, Ginjer is a friend - or at least a dear acquaintance and fellow Highlander fan). She thinks you're "a wonderful author".

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Wanna forward that contact information? I inherited a website on Sequencing Batch Reactors (I maintained it for a couple years) and thus have some background... and you know, some of the industrial places pay five times as much per word as the short story markets...

me again

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

I've written for computer/technical papers and I also used to ghostwrite for the editor of Material Handling Wholesaler (a publication which has changed hands since then)and the pay was good. Detail and fact checking were *really* important, you betcha. Those guys new a '37 Hyster with solid tires when they saw one...

Contact info

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

For you, and all those other closet tech writers lurking...

Forester Communications, Inc.
2946 De la Vina St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805-682-1300
fax 805-682-0200
website http://www.forester.net
email publisher@forester.net

"Editorial contributions are welcome" with the usual disclaimers about SASE and not responsible etc...

Re: hey Jim!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Tell her that a manuscript is sitting on my agent's doorstep even as we speak. Well, even as we _type_.

And thanks for the "egoboo." Writers need that kind of thing on a regular basis.

(Ginjer isn't _my_ editor, as such. That would be Anne Sowards.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I've always thought that being _down_ that proverbial creek would be worse than "up." If you're up the creek without a paddle, you can float back with the current....