Writing for the magazines Author:J. Berg Esenwein Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II KINDS OF MAGAZINES It could arouse little more than an academic interest to present a classification of magazines even measurably exact in its g... more »rouping or fully inclusive in scope. It must be understood that nothing of the sort is intended by this chapter. Magazines come and go, merge and change, with such bewildering suddenness that even the following short list is sure to be misrepresentative in at least some details by the time it is put into type. The real purpose of this list is to arouse an interest in the little-known magazines as markets for material, and thereby to show intending contributors that, as multifarious as are human pursuits, so widely diversified are the periodicals meant to match them. Several further words of caution are necessary. It has not been possible to compile a representative list of periodicals covering so broad a range of interests and yet include only such as both accept and pay for contributed material. For this reason the accompanying survey must not be regarded as a list of markets. Before sending material to those magazines which are evidently either of small circulation or highly specialized in character it would be well to examine one or two copies, or else ask the editor briefly if unsolicited material is desired, and paid for if available. A stamped, addressed return envelope usually brings reply. Further, you must remember that manymagazines are physically little more than a few stitched leaves, so do not be misled into expecting too much from the unknown. It will be noticed that only one periodical is named as an example of each kind. This implies no judgment on my part that that magazine is of better grade than others not mentioned. Each is listed arbitrarily and solely as an example of a class. Had I found it pos...« less