Hi Nick, Nick here,

Thanks for the post. I know when I was alot younger than I am now, I remember how excited I was because an outfit like you describe, sent me a letter telling me they had accepted my poem and would be publishing it. Only after the  excitment died away did I realize they wanted money to help cover the cost or some such. I remember even trying to scrounge up the money, but couldn't. And then the final disappointment when I realized they wouldn't publish if I didn't cough up the money.

I still write poetry today, and I post it on my web site and hope that some of the readers enjoy it and if they don't too bad. I write for my own pleasure.

I feel for people who are conned into this if they don't understand what is happening. However some people do go ahead out of the sheer desire to be published.

There is so many ways to go now with the internet, what with e-publishing, blogs and more, I would have thought that these types would not find the market as rewarding as it use to be when there were far fewer options. But I guess there are always bottom dwellers.

My thing would be to check out all the vraious option on the web. There must be a resource for this somewhere.

Ultimately for me it wasn't the money, it was the glory to see my name in print that drove me on. These days the internet makes that very possible.


Yours


Nick Grimshawe

http:www.payitforward4profits.com/ngrimshawe