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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FraserRonald" data-source="post: 1688503" data-attributes="member: 7892">Hey there.As others have pointed out, having published a story on the internet is, indeed, considered "published" for the purposes of submitting to a magazine. As reanjr pointed it, it has to do with rights. Most magazines/journals buy First Rights (the right to present a piece for the first time), often--if the publication is based in NA--First North American Serial Rights. If this isn't the first presentation of said story, you can't sell them first rights.Some mags and journals will buy reprints. However, very few of these venues will be interested in something put on the internet because it was freely available. The publishers of--for example--Extreme Adventure Anthology might pay to have a story that ran in Black Gate because it is unlikely every single reader of the anthology will have seen it in Black Gate. People have to pay to read Black Gate, so it has limited circulation. Something for free on the internet could have been seen a million times (though unlikely!). Further, if someone tells a friend about the great story "Swords of Halifax"  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> in Extreme Adventure Anthology, a reader is more likely to purchase the antho rather than find a back issue of Black Gate. However, if the story is on the net, it costs nothing to hunt it down and read it.There are areas on the internet where you can get criticism and comments in a safe, controlled environment. Check out <a href="http://www.critters.org/" target="_blank">Critters Workshop</a>. Even better would be to get a critique group going. It's too bad I'm leaving Halifax because when I moved here, that's exactly what I tried to do. However, where I failed, you may succeed. If not, and if you can afford a monthly flight to Kitchener ON, you can join in the group I'm setting up there!Hope this helps. Feel free to email me with any other questions you might have.Take care all.</blockquote>

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