The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #110424   Message #2506016
Posted By: Don Firth
02-Dec-08 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
So, David, you have posted you "work" on a poetry forum and on MySpace. I see nothing else on you website that tells where you have been

PUBLISHED

in the accepted usage of the word:   submitted to an editor, approved and accepted by said editor, subsequently printed in book form, and distributed to book stores and other such outlets—and for which you received a financial advance and for which you are currently receiving periodic royalty checks.

This does not mean self-published (paying a printer to print your book) and then distributing them yourself (a good way to wind up with 500 copies in a box under your bed).

Nor does it mean giving copies of your work to local libraries. My wife works in a major library and they get writers and poets walking in all the time with copies of their works, wanting them to be entered in the catalog and put on shelves to be checked out. In fact they receive so much of this unsolicited stuff that they have a policy of refusing anything that does not come through regular channels from a book publisher. If the person insists on leaving their book, it is discarded immediately.

Nor does published mean "posted on the internet."

Therefore, David—

Where have you been published?

Don Firth