Minor revelation

[edg]

Or, why I don't like putting my own work on the In Nomine Collection.

Pyramid Magazine updated yesterday, and one of the articles was written by the editor, Steven Marsh - in addition to his weekly column. Now, in and of itself, this isn't a problem for me; I like reading Steven's articles. What gets me is that I have three articles in the queue, and instead of one of my articles seeing print, Steven's decided to publish one of his own.

This is why my stuff doesn't go on the INC - because I know it'll irritate people who are wondering when their stuff is going to go up.

Comments

[cpip.livejournal.com]

Just to double-check, "in the queue" means that Marsh has already accepted them for publication and sent you a paycheck? Or are they just "for review"?

Re:

[edg.livejournal.com]

The latter. Although, given that I have yet to receive an acceptance letter for a published article (or even notification that it's been published!), they might all three be published next week and I wouldn't know until I actually checked Pyramid.

FWIW, Pyramid doesn't pay for articles until they're actually published.

[hackard.livejournal.com]

Maybe Steven's was waiting longer.

[edg.livejournal.com]

That was probably the case; since I'm not Steven, I have no real way of knowing, especially eight months later. :)

Naturally, my irritation was also irrational - what goes in Pyramid is Steven's decision, not mine, and even if I had four billion articles in the queue, if his judgment called for an all-Steven issue, I really have no place questioning it.

(It's also worth mentioning that of the three articles I mentioned, one (an Appendix Z) was rejected because it had a total target audience of maybe two people; one (a Hellboy RPG adventure was rejected because it would be more of a pain to license than it was worth; and one ("The End of the World") was printed. I understand and accept both of the rejections; I've printed the Appendix Z elsewhere, and I'm reworking the Hellboy adventure to be a generic GURPS 4e horror adventure so there's no licensing problem.)