Thanks for the further feedback. I’ll think more on whether we should open some kind of private submission option, and we may end up doing so. It would be really sad if authors were forced to sacrifice future opportunities in order to participate.
If you’re looking for a compromise solution, stories submitted to the Grantville Gazette Universe Annex (Baen’s magazine) are submitted by being posted on a password-protected forum (Baen’s Bar) that anyone can get an account for, where readers can critique them, then a subset of those are purchased and professionally published in the magazine. Posting a story on Baen’s Bar is generally (some people say explicitly, and it appears to be the consensus unless I’m making a horrible mistake) not considered publication, and stories posted there don’t appear in Google searches.
You’d want to do more research into this, but if you’re interested, it might provide you a base to work off of.
Thanks for the further feedback. I’ll think more on whether we should open some kind of private submission option, and we may end up doing so. It would be really sad if authors were forced to sacrifice future opportunities in order to participate.
Welcome! I’m happy to help.
If you’re looking for a compromise solution, stories submitted to the Grantville Gazette Universe Annex (Baen’s magazine) are submitted by being posted on a password-protected forum (Baen’s Bar) that anyone can get an account for, where readers can critique them, then a subset of those are purchased and professionally published in the magazine. Posting a story on Baen’s Bar is generally (some people say explicitly, and it appears to be the consensus unless I’m making a horrible mistake) not considered publication, and stories posted there don’t appear in Google searches.
You’d want to do more research into this, but if you’re interested, it might provide you a base to work off of.
(Their submission rules; warning, mildly arcane: https://grantvillegazette.com/universe-annex-submissions/ )