"All serious writers are aware that it is can be very hard to get your first article published. To add to that, many of the bigger magazine publications do not even look at work from writer's without some publication credits to their names." LOL! Sure... if I were to submit an article to Playboy or The New Yorker... BUT, as this is the Internet and not print, trust me... it is laughably easy to submit articles for inclusion into content-hungry website mags. Don't believe me? I'm not a serious writer by any stretch of the term, and yet I submitted and got published a whole host of tech editorials into Linux Today, and even a ZDNet-sponsored mag back in the mid '90s. Lookit - I'm not out to insult anyone here, and I haven't a clue as to what the magazine will be about. I will also go further out and admit that I liked the print version fairly well. However, it isn't as if R'osity has a Madison Ave. mailing address and a reserved slot at a major publishing plant, and let's face it: You need competent content as badly as competent writers could use the cash. :/ "Thus, it is common practise in the magazine industry, especially for small specialized publications [like the Renderosity Magazine] to offer space in their magazine to writers who have never been published before." Sure - but not the whole mag. Also, this (again) smacks of the 'job offers' in the Jobs/Resumes forum promising "exposure". I mean, c'mon... even as a rank amateur, if I were to submit something for consideration, I'd at least want a fee, and at the most charitable, you'd prolly get one-time run rights, and that's it. "I'm Published!" don't mean squat if it leads nowhere, and the maxim always holds that you get what you pay for, ne? If you're lucky, you may get a few folks to contribute some decent type (and you have been lucky in that aspect), but for how long? Unless they're completely naive, they'll wise up and move on to something more profitable. "You are comparing a huge corporate producted Magazine - to our little community magazine." I'm willing to wager that Renderosity grosses more in cash per annum than a lot of medium-circulation magazines do. Like it or not, Renderosity IS a corporation. You WILL advertise marketplace goods in it. The calculus is real simple here... you're a corporate entity. I understand and sympathize with the feeling you're trying to evoke here, but the cold, hard truth is that you cannot deny what Renderosity is. Now, I don't mind a bit that R'osity is a corporation (LLC, whatever), and that you're wanting to sell me things. OTOH, I find it an insult to the intelligence to see an attempt to spoon-feed the masses something that clearly is not. "What has always set Renderosity Magazine apart from other publications, is that we are here to promote Renderosity Members. The majority of our articles are written by artists - not professional writers. To add to that, I would venture, that the majority of artists who have submitted articles to the magazine have never even thought of doing so" Sure - it's a hobby. But how many will continue to write for you a year hence? It's not as if I'm demanding you shell out the crown jewels here... you could very easily front the writer $40 or so in store credit for each article, and perhaps a free year's subscription renewable for the duration of his/her work with you, and the writer would prolly enjoy the hell out of the exchange. At least that way the appreciation would flow in both directions, ne? /P