TUXLooking for a few good writers

[Colin McGregor]

"Marcel (Writer and Free Thinker at Large) Gagné" <mggagne-oUREY1nl/XXQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> on
Tuesday, December 28, 2004 5:04 PM wrote:

>Hello everyone,

>I hope and trust that you all had (or are still having) a great holiday.

>As some of you are already aware, I'm now the editor in chief of a new
>Linux magazine called TUX which is aimed at the desktop/graphical user with
>a focus on new users. The whole point of this email is to let everyone know
>that I'm looking for writers, both for the print edition of the magazine
>(which is a professional paying market) and the Web site (which for the
>time being, pays in T-shirts, magazines, or, if you write a few articles, a
>subscription to the CD edition of TUX).  If you've ever thought, "Hey, I
>could write a for a Linux magazine", this is your chance.

For William Park and myself the answer is been there, done that. William
Park in the November and December 2004 issues of Linux Gazette, and me in
the February 2005 Linux Journal. Though William Park's articles about adding
extensions to the BASH shell or my article about customising Knoppix for use
at a World Science Fiction Convention are likely NOT quite up your beginners
alley...

>The best place to start it to check out the TUX Web site at
>http://www.tuxmagazine.com. Go to the bottom of the main page and you'll
>find a link titled "Write for Us". Start there and you'll get an
>understanding of what kind of material I am looking for, the audience, and
>the style. Then, head up to the Advertisers link up top. On that page
>you'll find the editorial calendar for the coming year.

I had a look at your "Write for Us" section and was left with one question,
is article payment at time of acceptance or at time of publication? The
reason I ask is because I put in my article to Linux Journal (and it was
accepted) in November 2003 but only in this past week have I seen and signed
the contract that should get me $. This LONG lag between article acceptance
and publication/payment is a definite disincentive to writing...

Otherwise, I can think of at least one story I could easily write for your
magazine...

>Take care out there.

>-- 
>Marcel Gagné
>Editor in Chief
>TUX : The First & Only Magazine for the New Linux User



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