Today's Asshole Market is A Public Space

Just revised a story that has been kicking around for a long time. It's called Dennis. It's a tough sell since it's mostly about a subset in a Minneapolis art scene and growing out of the time when basement poetry readings and Rocky Horror Picture Show seems cool. It's not genre but I put it in the genre category - I probably should change it over to literary.

Anyhow, A Public Space has been sitting on the story for over a year. Another literary magazine that is more about "THE ART, MAN" rather than respecting the writers enough to give them a rejection or acceptance within a reasonable time frame. I don't know this completely, but since Mixer Publishing actually has a submission guideline that says "don't query until we've sat on your story for a year because we don't believe that you give a shit about getting paid or selling your story and we prefer to waste your time" I wouldn't put it past them.