>At 10:56 AM 4/28/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Strange Horizons, the SF/F journal has published a short piece of mine on 
>the
> >Beguines of the late Middle Ages. The URL is:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/
>
>Whoa!  Huzzah!  This calls for three cheers!  I haven't cracked that market 
>with fiction yet.  (I thought that one of the ones I read on the site, all 
>about a "vanishing cream" that made a woman thinner until,
you guessed it, 
>was not really SF but literary fiction or magical realism. 
Yeah -- their fiction is pretty pedestrian, all in all.  I have had poetry
ther, and it's a good market for that ($$)-- but, not well paying for
articles, fiction and so on.  The vanishing creme idea was in Asinmov's
years and years ago...


So maybe they're not going to 
>be "my kind of market." 

You never know -- they might be good for some stuff. The "Strange
Countries"
series was interesting.  I was thinking of doing a bestiary of creatures, and I
might send a query.  Real pseudo-science stuff. (thik of what I could do with
the first cousin of the duck billed platapus, the long eared orange tailed
octo-puss  -- No, down guys, I'm not going for the Penthouse market.)

 Yet they might have some other stuff worth 
>And here I thought the Beguines started with Cole Porter.

 Thanks, needed that.;-)) My fantasy is that some SF & F
writer will be
inspired to fiction based on this stuff. I wrote a portion of my master's work
on the Beguines. Later,  Lezlie
>

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