Monday 23 May 2016

Such a shame

I was pleased to see two short stories in the UK That's Life Summer special. Don't get too excited though as I contacted them and was told by smeone in reader's services that they've had a change of policy and won't be continuing with the fiction. Sigh.

Who makes these decisions and why - and is there anything we can do to convince them that readers do want fiction in their magazines?

6 comments:

Carolb said...

We can only hope they'll realise their mistake before too long.

Anonymous said...

I think one way is to go onto the comments sites of the individual mags and say how much you liked the story; I often hear people who read mags say to each other how much they enjoyed the short story, and I find myself wishing they'd put that in writing! Magazines really like and respond to reader feedback.

Dolores Doolittle said...

Yes, stories add such a lot to the reading joy of a magazine - shall email a vote for the PleaseKeepTheFiction campaign...

Wendy's Writing said...

It's a shame but I wasn't aware they had fiction in that mag.

Patsy said...

Letting the magazines who do publish fiction know we enjoy it seems like a good idea. I worry it looks like self interest coming from writers - but of course we're readers too.

Unknown said...

Mine was accepted on 30 March.