Heh. Always buy the Market in December or January of the current year. As for my personal writing experience: I have written for the RPGA, TSR/WOTC/Hasbro Interactive. This was because I found people who were connected and stuck with it. I have published freelance articles in a few magazines, all short fiction, and it was because the magazines probably needed filler. ;) ( j/k. I submitted and got accepted ) I published a poem in the New Yorker because I won a contest. ( Tell anyone I wrote a poem and I'll brain you with an adze. => ) I currently write for the Renderosity Magazine. In fact, I've had a lot of conversations with people heavily involved outside the magazine who are uniformly of the belief that this magazine will be BIG. This means: Get in on the ground level now if you can, and bust your ass to be part of the team, cause it will very likely pay off if you have the talent, dedication, and integrity to handle the responsibility of meeting deadlines, keeping current, and being interesting. Paul