Curious

[toangelblue]

Just started submitting work to journals and magazines. Going well so far, but I have a lot of questions

Comments

[nerak_g]

I've seen poems posted on poets' websites & livejournals that are also elsewhere; in chapbooks, in books, in on-line journals, in print journals, so I don't think it's as big a deal as authors usually make it.I could be wrong on that, but almost everyone I know who blogs & gets published, also blogs some amount of what they're working on, drafts or otherwise

[radioactiveart]

I never worry about it myself.

I don't do simultaneous submissions at all; easier to keep track of and I've got enough work to work from that it's rarely an issue.

More and more online and print journals are specifying that online blogs are not a concern. I look for those pubs for my stuff. If by chance they do care and I'm interested in submitting to them, I pull my stuff down or make it private.

[mojgani]

word to what tony said, for most online folks your blog/website is not of concern. just check with the publication, they all do things differently.

[givemelaughter]

yeah, what they said. i'd mainly just add to pay close attention to all of the guidelines a journal sets. and keep a file of all your poems (titles, dates sent, names of journals, the response you've received if any, etc). i do mine in a word file, since i'm more comfortable with that than excel.
also...once i mistakenly submitted a poem i'd also sent elsewhere, and they had asked for no simultaneous submissions, so i emailed an apology/explanation and it ended up working out. but preferably, the mistake isn't made in the first place :)

[hot_rod_poet]

What pitfalls do I need to be aware of through submitting

[jbradley]

I link all of my published work on my site - iheartfailure.net

I don't post any of my poems at all since I've been more dedicated to magazine publication and what not.

Don't be afraid to fail. And best of luck to you.