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The SFF author support service, The Submission Grinder, sends out a weekly email providing information about market changes, opportunities, and so on.
There was a promising CFS, which I looked up (which has provided me my now current favorite statement on AI subs), like ya do. I have a story sitting in my rolodex which is a perfect match for the CFS. (The possibility of this is part of why the CFS was promising.)
The anthology is currently bidding a flat rate for stories, though hoping a Kickstarter will let them bump up to a per-word. That flat rate, on the perfect-match story, works out to about $.02/word. (Two and a third, when I do the math.)
So now it's the calculation. Is the story strong enough to potentially sell to a higher-paying, higher-profile market? Is there a strong likelihood that the story's quirks will mean that it just keeps making the rounds of no-sales outside of a niche particularly aimed at those specific quirks? If it sells, it will get in front of a few curated eyes who might be specifically looking for That Kind Of Things, and maybe word of mouth will do something, but it will be otherwise obscure.
I think I'm leaning towards sending it, mind, but there is so much Vagueness Maths involved in making sure that's what I want to do....
There was a promising CFS, which I looked up (which has provided me my now current favorite statement on AI subs), like ya do. I have a story sitting in my rolodex which is a perfect match for the CFS. (The possibility of this is part of why the CFS was promising.)
The anthology is currently bidding a flat rate for stories, though hoping a Kickstarter will let them bump up to a per-word. That flat rate, on the perfect-match story, works out to about $.02/word. (Two and a third, when I do the math.)
So now it's the calculation. Is the story strong enough to potentially sell to a higher-paying, higher-profile market? Is there a strong likelihood that the story's quirks will mean that it just keeps making the rounds of no-sales outside of a niche particularly aimed at those specific quirks? If it sells, it will get in front of a few curated eyes who might be specifically looking for That Kind Of Things, and maybe word of mouth will do something, but it will be otherwise obscure.
I think I'm leaning towards sending it, mind, but there is so much Vagueness Maths involved in making sure that's what I want to do....
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For me, it usually comes down to, is this the right home for this story? I've sold things to token-payment markets and been happy to do it, because that was clearly where that story was supposed to be. But it's not like I've turned down the checks from pro-paying markets, either.
I really should subscribe to that email.