Speculations makes money, or at least has never lost enough to cause me to take so much as a nickel out of my pocket to keep it afloat. We pay our authors professional rates, three cents a word and up. And we show up on time every time, as I've already boasted elsewhere. No, apparently not in our field. They make a heck of a lot more money than we do, naturally, but the price of true professionalism in our field turns out to be relevance and integrity.
Relevance means time.
Sure, our layout's unspectacular and our trimming sometimes looks like gophers are gnawing the edges of each copy flush, but our amateur-level market columns are never more than a week old by the time they hit the mail. And integrity means what it says. Take a quick look at the advertising in your bigger writers' magazines and you'll find that they're being kept afloat by book doctors, fee readers, and vanity presses. As soon as the Bulletin breaks even, we'll talk some more about who's a pro and who's not. In the meantime, welcome to the good fight.