[Becoming a Writer] Taking Your First Bow in Magazines - Walter S. Campbell

Even in the commercial field, however, the writer must be upon his guard. There are always a few publishers and editors ready to take advantage of the unwary writer. Some fly-by-night magazines, for example, will print contributions without ever making the author an offer or even sending him a letter of acceptance. If, by chance, he later sees his work in the magazine, he may collect, if he can, but is generally obliged to take anything offered him, since a suit would not be worth while against such people. There are a few book publishers, also, who will offer unfair contracts to a writer and take every possible advantage of him. Such editors and publishers are to be avoided. Fortunately, they are very few.
A writer must be as careful in making a choice of markets as he is in making the other choices involved in the craft of writing. The less business-like he is, the more wary he should be. ..
Visit: