Helen Hegener

>To me, to put on Dan's or my video-game-defending webpage.
>I don't know whether if you put it right out here on this list if
>that would make it less desireable for HEM, or if Helen and Mark
>have decided they can't use it or what. But I would put it where
>those really serious about considering video games as real and good
>could find it easily.

Okay, I guess I need to clarify here. We have a firm policy of only
publishing articles which have not appeared elsewhere in print or
online - so publishing it on a website would totally remove it from
our consideration, as we do not accept reprints or second rights to
work which has appeared previously in any format. After publication
the author is free to do whatever they want to with their writing (we
only buy first publication rights), but we work hard to make sure
everything that appears in Home Education Magazine hasn't already
appeared anywhere else, online or off.

Helen

Tia Leschke

>
>Okay, I guess I need to clarify here. We have a firm policy of only
>publishing articles which have not appeared elsewhere in print or
>online - so publishing it on a website would totally remove it from
>our consideration, as we do not accept reprints or second rights to
>work which has appeared previously in any format. After publication
>the author is free to do whatever they want to with their writing (we
>only buy first publication rights), but we work hard to make sure
>everything that appears in Home Education Magazine hasn't already
>appeared anywhere else, online or off.

As a writer, I'm glad you guys aren't following the lead of so many other
publications and insisting on purchasing all rights.
Tia

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Tia Leschke
leschke@...
On Vancouver Island

Helen Hegener

At 8:41 PM -0700 8/22/02, Tia Leschke wrote:
>As a writer, I'm glad you guys aren't following the lead of so many other
>publications and insisting on purchasing all rights.

I'm a writer myself, and was a writer long before I was an editor, so
when it came time to decide on editorial policy it was my writer-side
that made the relevant decisions about rights. Even when we decide to
re-use a writer's work from HEM, as we did in The Homeschool Reader,
we pay to reprint the articles as just a rightful part of the
production costs. Too many publications treat writers like some kind
of disposable commodity, probably figuring there are always more
where they came from. As a writer I've never agreed to sell all
rights, and in fact many publications which say they only purchase
all rights will often back off and agree to other arrangements if a
writer refuses to sell their rights.

Helen