Markets, Markets, Markets!

Thought I'd share some good news (for a change) about magazines. Apparently, the rumors of their death have been somewhat exaggerated.

Newsweek reports that, while this has hardly been a banner year for magazines, there are a few that continue to attract ad revenue. In fact, the article named a dozen that are doing particularly well. Take a look for yourself and see which of the fortunate dozen continue to thrive despite the ill-fortunes of the print magazine industry, in general.

And while we're on the subject of markets, let's talk about fiction and memoirs.

Did you know there was a periodical called Memoir (and)? If you write memoirs or essays, you may wish to check this out. It sounds very different. (I have to thank Leslie at Work-in-Progress for cluing me in on this one.)

Finally, for fiction writers there's an intriguing-sounding anthology that's looking for submissions for something called "hint fiction," which is defined as "a story of 25 words or less that suggests a larger, more complex story."

That's the only hint I'm giving you about that. If you want to know more, you'll simply have to read Joe Konrath's blog post about it.

And that's it for now. Keep writing and marketing!