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Loudlever
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Richard Luck
Founder: Loudlever
Publisher: Pif Magazine
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Pif Magazine : 1995 - 2010
• Published 700+ writers:– 300 never before published– 300 emerging writers – 100 established writers• PEN Award• Rea Award• Pushcart Prize• Guggenheim Fellowship• and … a US Poet Laureate
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challenges
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new press = no pressno name recognition
no track record
receive lots of poor submissionshigh school sweetheart love poems
… in iambic pentameter …
finding good writers is expensive(Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, etc.)
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established press = big mess
• 40% : poor, poor qualityeven more high school love poetry
• 25% : wrong genrenot fan fiction, fantasy or enviro- essays
• 15% : work being considered elsewhere
publishers don’t like bidding wars
• 10% : writers don’t own rights‘exclusive’ means just that
• 5% : bad timinglike it – but not right for current issue
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5% are published
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with 300 subs a month
staff of 5 spends 4 weeksto find 60 works
30 can’t verify rights15 are shelved
15 are published
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publishing is inefficient
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take the haystackto find the needle
month after month after month
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industry is fragmented
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email = submission tool
shotgun submissions
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no external rules filterslength?genre?
reading period?simultaneous submission?
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no central ‘rights’ database
does the writer own it?can a publisher monetize it?
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what about the writer?
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which publisher?read each publication
befriend the editoruse a directory
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submission?was it received?
when will they respond?is it right for them?
what now?
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is there a different way?
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publishers like the ‘known’
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Gordon Lish = Amy Hempel
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Pif Magazine =
storySouth + Missouri Review + January Magazine
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help writers and publishersfind each other faster and
manage relationships better
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for publishers
enforce specific genres and lengthswhere writer has rights to work
prevent simultaneous submissions
only during reading periods
help publishers manage what they own
discover new writers outside submission stream
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for writers
discover new publishing markets
send work to right publisher, at right address, at right time
auto-manage rejections/acceptances
help writers know what they own
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LoudleverCreativity. Accelerated.