Where to Get an Article Published

I have been waiting 5 months, have made 2 resubmissions because they said they were having email troubles and despite 4 emails enquiring if they were going to publish received only acknowledgement they received my email, but no definitive reply.

Then you sir have done your due diligence - and then some! Well done and best of luck with your article.

Bad form to submit to more than one magazine at a time?

This is a competitive world my friend, we can't be doing with hanging around waiting in the vain hope for a response while these people twiddle their thumbs and quaff their cafe lattes in swish coffee emporiums while ruminating on the rudeness of plebs who have the temerity to submit an article to more than one magazine at a time.

So the heat of competition hasn't reached your neck of the woods yet then?

Well, don't worry, have another latte and put on your rose tinted goggles while the rest of us do some business.

I'm terribly sorry that the standards by which the publishing industry generally functions don't meet with your energetic lifestyle approach.

However magazines and other published media are in fact dominated by the oft-overworked (and occasionally borderline psycho - sorry) editors who helm them. For those seeking a writing career almost nothing is more detrimental than ticking off said editors. Nothing frustrates them like digging through piles of submissions and upon finding something worthy learning the author has already sold it elsewhere. Odds are that future submissions to that editor will get filed in the dustbin.

Of course this isn't a universal rule. Many editors don't care one bit. And for one-off writers, it doesn't really matter. But for career writers looking to establish themselves, it really pays in the long run to keep in as many editors' good graces as possible.

Now do please excuse me while I go inquire with my optomitrist about those rose-colored glasses.

Tony, my experience is that magazine editors are desperate for articles. I do a lot of posting on a variety of discipline specific web sites and frequently get invitations to submit articles for publication.

If you are not getting a response it may be that you are casting your hook in the wrong pond.

There also may be some interest in your method in the extrusion or injection molding industry as a post processing method.

L.J.

How about "Everyday Practical Electronics"?

http://www.epemag3.com/index.php

They like unusual products, especially useful ones......

They publish all around the world.....in English only.