Comments on: How Frederik Pohl became a pulp literary agent, and saved himself 8¢ per story in postage http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/how-frederik-pohl-became-a-pul.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: bruce_a14 http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/how-frederik-pohl-became-a-pul.html#comment-1546423 bruce_a14 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184403#comment-1546423 There was an occasional Canadian market where American writers also got to know the IRC experience.  You had to hope that the clerk at the Post Office would know what an IRC was; sometimes they had to call over a more experienced clerk.  My first submitted story sold on its first submission.  My second went to 45 markets before world events outdated it; the frustrating thing about that story was about half those editors wrote back saying "This is a good story.  I don't want to publish it." There was an occasional Canadian market where American writers also got to know the IRC experience.  You had to hope that the clerk at the Post Office would know what an IRC was; sometimes they had to call over a more experienced clerk. 

My first submitted story sold on its first submission.  My second went to 45 markets before world events outdated it; the frustrating thing about that story was about half those editors wrote back saying “This is a good story.  I don’t want to publish it.”

]]> By: Gareth Stack http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/how-frederik-pohl-became-a-pul.html#comment-1546034 Gareth Stack Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184403#comment-1546034 Kind of inspires me to keep going. The second time I sent off a story it was published (in Irish SF magazine 'Albedo One'), but I haven't had any luck getting fiction published since. Kind of inspires me to keep going. The second time I sent off a story it was published (in Irish SF magazine ‘Albedo One’), but I haven’t had any luck getting fiction published since.

]]> By: Hubert Figuière http://boingboing.net/2012/10/01/how-frederik-pohl-became-a-pul.html#comment-1545988 Hubert Figuière Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:59:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=184403#comment-1545988 Glad you did not give up, Cory. Glad you did not give up, Cory.

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