I love the internet, but it can be a tremendous drain on my time and energy. It's so easy to sit and surf, that I don't always accomplish what I set out to do.
One of the tremendous advantages to the internet is the ability to find new sources and resources for writers. I am able to have news of new markets and the needs of familiar markets, delivered to my email in-box. How gloriously convenient! I don't know if it has hurt sales of books such as The Writers Market, but I certainly have stopped shelling out money for information that I not only get for free, but I don't even have to search for it myself.
This comes to mind as I read today of a new market for fiction and poetry. The quarterly magazine is called A Public Space, and it is to be edited by Brigid Hughes, the former editor of The Paris Review.
This is exciting because it seems that the current trend, in today's world of blogs, is toward a non-fiction, essay-type writing. A magazine which bucks the trend and returns to fiction and poetry, and which has the ear-marks of a high quality publication, is news worthy of a little fist-pumping, "yes," response.
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