A Writer's pick me up - Jillian Medoff: Turn around champion

Jillian Medoff's experience would have to be deserving of 'classic' status as a turning of a sink hole to success story!
There are so many tales of woe ranging from "The dog ate my manuscript" to having your book accepted only to have  the publisher go bankrupt, to finding there was  a story uncannily like yours out there, released same time as yours but with a big budget campaign to support it and the ultimate ARRGH! The  publisher turns out to be scammy. Everyone has their own personal horror story. So this blog from Query Tracker  on Jillian Medoff's turn around is the sort of thing  we creatives need - a virtual shot in the arm!

The history of literature has numbers of these  'turn around stories'.  "Lord of the Rings" was rejected many, many time before finding a home.
 "Harry Potter" was passed over by  12 publishers.
"Lord of the Flies"  got 21 rejections before William Golding found  an editor who 'got' his book!
Jerzy Kosinski's   extraordinary experiment with his own bestseller, "Steps" is a frightening reality check and  at the same time a jab  with a cattle prod reminder to 'persist, persist, persist' and never give up!

The wonderful and the terrible thing about the arts is  that it is so sensitive to the whims of personal taste. This  means that what is good may not immediately be recognised as such and  what is bad may become popular. BUT it also means you are in there with a chance because  someone, somewhere is sure to LOVE your work!  It  Tolkien, Golding, Nabokov and Rowling, to name a few, had given up, our literature would be  so very much the poorer!

Read more extraordinary stories  of  how authors turned  'NO!" in to "YE$" on One Hundred Famous Rejections. Read and be encouraged!

Great sites to warn the unseasoned of what to look out for on the road to publication include -
http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/ and http://pred-ed.com/

Poetry Magazines, Presses & related promotional sites

Poetry Magazines and Publishers and Promoters of Poetry on FaceBook & elsewhere – please feel free to add to this evolving list!

Adirondack Review – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1606723468


Ahadada Books – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=547067182


Anhinga Press – http://www.facebook.com/anhingapress


Apex Reviews – http://www.facebook.com/apexreviews


Australian Poetry Centre – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1437276855


Around Poetry – http://www.facebook.com/around.poetry


Artifice Mag – http://www.facebook.com/artificemag


Askew Poetry Journal – on FaceBook


Australian Book Review – on FaceBook
Australian Poetry – on FaceBook


Bellevue Literary Press – on FaceBook
Bellevue Literary Review – on FaceBook


Black Coffee Press – on FaceBook
Black Lawrence Press – on FaceBook


Blood Lotus Journal – http://www.facebook.com/bloodlotusjournal


Blueorangepublishing Ceret – FaceBook


Boa Editions – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1021828669


Broadsided Press – on FaceBook


Brownstone Press – on FaceBook


Burnside Review – on FaceBook


Carcanet Press – on FaceBook


Comma Press – on FaceBook


Coffee House Press – http://www.facebook.com/CoffeeHousePress


Copperfield Review – on FaceBook


Covert Press – on FaceBook


Dark Coast Press – on FaceBook –


SDivan – http://www.bhtafe.edu.au/Courses/CI/Pages/divan.aspx


Dusie Press – on FaceBook


ElephantEars Press – on FaceBook


Ethical Poets – on FAceBook


Farrago Poetry – on FaceBook


Finishing Line Press – on FaceBook


Five Islands Press – on Face Book – http://www.fiveislandspress.com/


Fulcrum Books – on FaceBook


FullofCrow Press – on FaceBook


Fushicho Imprint – on FaceBook


Guernica Mag – on FaceBook


Guildhall Press – on FaceBook


Hande Book Publishers – on FaceBook


Harper Imprint on FaceBook
Haibun Today – http://haibuntoday.blogspot.com


Indiana Review on FaceBook


Indie Lit – on FaceBook
IP [Interactive Press] – http://www.ipoz.biz/


Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics – onFaceBook


John F. Blair Publisher – on FaceBook


Kilmog Press – on FaceBook
Kore Press – women’s writing – articles, stories, poetry
http://www.facebook.com/korepress http://www.korepress.org/about.htm
Leucrota Press – on FaceBook


Luciole Press – on FaceBook


Manic D Press – on FaceBook


Mascara Literary Review – on FaceBook

Meanjin – on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Meanjin-Quarterly/49183750265?ref=ts&v=wall


Midway Journal – on FaceBook


Missing Spoke Press – on FaceBook


Naugatuck River Review – on FaceBook


Neopoiesis Press -http://www.facebook.com/neopoiesispress


Next Wave – on FaceBook


On a Shoestring – on FaceBook


Outsider Writers – on FaceBook


Overland Literary Journal – on FaceBook


Overlook Press – on FaceBook


Pale House – on FaceBook


Paper Wasp, Australian Haiku Journal – Janice Bostock – on MySpace


Poem a Day – on FaceBook
Poetry Pulse.com – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000917025873


Poetry N Prose – on FaceBook


Quadrant – online and in hard copy – on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Quadrant/104045959633305?ref=ts


Quick Fiction – on FaceBook


Rattapallax Press – on FaceBook


Raw Poetry – http://www.facebook.com/rawpoetry


Red Hen Press – on FaceBook


Red Room – on FaceBook


Ripples – ripplesmagazine@gmail.com


Salmon Poetry – on FaceBook – http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=207&a=88


Sandstone Press – on FaceBook


Sentient Publications – on FaceBook


Silenced Press – on FaceBook


Small Change Press – on MySpace – http://www.smallchangepress.com.au


Speed Poets – on MySpace – anotherlostshark.com


The Mozzie – Ron Heard & Bill Henderson [on LinkedIn.com]


Southerly Journal – on FaceBook


Stone Bridge Press – on FaceBook


Sugar House Review – on FaceBook


The Toronto Quarterly – on FaceBook


Tlon Books Publishing – on FaceBook


Trailer Park Quarterly – on FaceBook


UAkron Press – on FaceBook


University of Alabama Press – on FaceBook


Untitled Pocketbook – on FaceBook


Upthestaircase Quarterly – on FaceBook


Virgogray Press – on FaceBook


Voicebox Freemantle – on FaceBook


WA POETS – on FaceBook


Wakefield Press – on Facebook


Wired Ruby Literary Zine – on FaceBook


Word Jammin’ – on FaceBook


Writers Hub – on FaceBook


Writers News Show – on FaceBook

If your site is not listed, either I have not yet found you or you have not yet ‘accepted’ my friend request!