Here are your Monday Markets for August 11, 2008. There is a local magazine dedicated to stories about Austin, a barbecue magazine, a business magazine and on that concentrates on stories of interest to people who build wooden boats.
The Good Life: A Monthly Journal of Austin Stories
From the Web Site:
The Good Life is both for and about the people of Central Texas who live and work in the five counties (Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell) that make up the Austin metropolitan area. The Good Life is exclusively a local publication. We do not publish articles about folks who don’t live in this area. All the articles we publish must have a local focus and cite local sources. Writers living elsewhere have rarely been able to produce suitable articles, because they’re usually not able to get the local flavor and local sources that are needed for the magazine.
The Good Life usually publishes four or five feature stories in each edition, with two of those being health, wellness or fitness stories within the Gusto section at the back of the magazine. Gusto features are usually assigned at a length of 1500 words.
Pays $150-$750 on publication.
Fiery-Foods.com – The Fiery Foods and Barbecue Super-Site
From the Web Site:
Fiery-Foods & Barbecue Magazine and www.fiery-foods.com cover the entire realm of fiery-foods and barbecue, including gardening, spicy products, cooking, barbecuing, and travel. It is our goal to present the most interesting information, articles, photos and recipes about these fascinating subjects. If you’re passionate about a certain area, share your ideas with us!
Articles should be concise (2000 words or less, though we may consider using longer articles as a multi-part series) and, more often than not, include recipes. Please state availability of photos and/or other visual material.
Pays between $250-$350 within 60 days of publication.
From the Web Site:
WoodenBoat is the bi-monthly magazine for wooden boat owners, builders, and designers. Unlike any other periodical in our field, we are devoted exclusively to the design, building, care, preservation, and use of wooden boats, both commercial and pleasure, old and new, sail and power. We work to convey quality, integrity, and involvement in the creation and care of these craft, to entertain, to inform, to inspire, and to provide our varied readers with access to individuals who are deeply experienced in the world of wooden boats.
We’ll consider your ideas in all forms—from a short query to a detailed outline, from a rough draft to a finished manuscript. Our preference is to receive a detailed article proposal or outline, accompanied by a sampling of the slides, photos, or drawings that will be available for illustrations. We can then advise whether we would be likely to publish the proposed article, and we can occasionally make your job easier by suggesting information or illustration sources and by asking for certain details that would make the article more acceptable….
Pays $200-$250 on publication.
From the Web Site:
Small business today is no longer merely a job or a business, but a movement, a cause, an adventure, a lifestyle. MyBusiness is a guide to survival and success in this new small-business economy. We seek to highlight and celebrate the people and ideas making this movement a reality. That’s why the experiences of real small-business owners are essential to every story.
MyBusiness is sent bimonthly to members of the National Federation of Independent Business. These small-business owners range from at-home sole proprietors to heads of companies with up to 500 employees. Our research shows our readers’ companies average an annual sales volume of $454,100, and a mean number of 19 employees. Yet success for MyBusiness readers is not measured merely in year-to-year revenue growth, but also with such radical measures as year-to-year personal growth, health and happiness.
Pay rates not disclosed until the magazine has agreed to publish an article.
Kewl links. Especially the fiery foods one. Thanks
Thanks for these, Jodee!
Jodee, only you could find a wooden boat magazine. LOL
@ Amy: Maybe I should start calling myself Brainiac!
Jodee — Brainiac is good. I have one client who calls me the Google Goddess, because I can find anything super-fast. Maybe you should use that title, since I’ll already be going as Zelda.