Lit Mags and Money (or the Lack of It)

Some thoughts on genre mags, literary mags, and trying to money on stories

When the semester wraps up, I always speak to my students about the business side of publishing. Queries, advances, submissions, and all that fun (read: frustrating) stuff that MFA professors often don’t like to talk about. I’m currently teaching “speculative fiction,” which means I’m also talking to them about the differences between the SFF world and …