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I suspect that pretty much everyone has been informed of ongoing money issues w/ RK mag, so IMO its going to be difficult to get anyone to submit an article
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Yeah, it is not like the old days when a magazine could go along ripping off authors for years.  Now with the internet and how well networked me all are, word spreads fast.
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Well when I contacted Marc he informed me that since Skip's departure, RK no longer pays for submissions (I think most of us would argue they didn't pay before that either  ). Submissions are now for name recognition only. He also told me that he's trying to take the magazine in a more hobbyist driven direction, meaning that they're looking for submissions from just average Joes rather than "experts." I'm not sure whether that was his decision or from higher up, but to me it sounds like they're resigned to the fact that they've alienated a lot of the experts and the few that they haven't aren't going to work for free. I really can't understand how they expect to be competitive in the market and produce a consistent number of articles by soliciting unpaid submissions and lowering their quality. The other magazines offer just as much name recognition, money, and now more prestige.
The good news for me though is that after threatening to "do what Steven did and make this problem public" Ryan replied to me and told me he would happy to get the problem resolved.  He did ask for my address, but I haven't heard that the check is in the mail yet.
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I had a feeling they were not paying for the articles they ran anymore. I have an article coming out in TFH soon. And guess what? They paid me upon acceptance, not publication! I have already been paid and my article is not even out yet! 
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greenbean36191 (5/9/2008)He also told me that he's trying to take the magazine in a more hobbyist driven direction, meaning that they're looking for submissions from just average Joes rather than "experts."
It's a happy day when I get to quote Harlan Ellison 
"Vast hordes of semi- or untalented amateurs festoon the Internet with their ungrammatical, puerile trash, and they think because this ‘vanity’ publication gets seen by a few people, that they are ‘writers.’ Horse puckey!
“That isn’t being published; that’s the fanzine press. And there are fewer and fewer real venues for a professional writer nowadays to make a decent living at the craft. Half the world is illiterate, and the other half treads water in the gravy of hubris secretly knowing they can write, if only they had the spare time. "
Thanks to RC/RK for providing me the opportunity.
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