/lit/ - Literature

No

None proper, but I imagine vanity publishing is pretty popular round these parts. It's why you always get one or two guys acting up in self-publishing threads, they're scared that OP will find their book.

what about tao?

Tao Lin is around here somewhere.

DFW lurks here

I've had poetry published and featured in a magazine, I've successfully self-published an album of original songs (100,000+ downloads). Everything else has been rejected by publishers. I've got novels and stories that I'm too afraid to submit because the rejection hits me so hard.

>>4437464
>album
link?

>>4437510
This was a few years ago, the site I used to host the material is long gone.

>>4437521
well did that album lead to any substantial popularity or success? It seems like an album with 100,000+ downloads has a solid following

>>4437533
>yfw he's Mexican and it was just his family downloading it out of feelings of obligation

>>4437533
>did that album lead to any substantial popularity or success
No, because I published it anonymously.
Sometimes I browse my song titles on last.fm and I find profiles where people have listened to my songs hundreds of times in a month. A part of me wishes I had found some way to monetize the songs, but that seems a little dishonest. I guess I'm just happy people are listening, some artists never get that chance.

>>4437583
Song names?

I was published in TAR

>>4437597
'they won't leave you where you're resting' is the most "popular" song. Googling it, the main result you'll get is some girl who did a really bad cover of it.

>>4437601
>tfw published in TAR
>tfw you tell people you were published
>tfw you can't tell them where you were published out of shame

>>4437605
i got results of a song by Dido

>>4437601
>>4437607
Is TAR even still...in existence?

That whole magazine seemed to fall down the shitter when Prole openly stated said he wanted to lower the quality of its content.

>>4437608
Yeah, I'm Dido. Ask me what Eminem smells like.

>>4437611
the real problem was drama with the staff and insufferable shitposting. One of the other editors is doing something or other with it now

Towel in.

>>4437613

skittles, probably

yeah i got my poetry about kirt kobain and swallowing all my anti-depressants in my highschool lit mag called zebralit

>>4437766
i meaaan printed in it. LOL i'v ealso self-published every poem and short story i've ever wrote on ma blog.

>>4437611
Yes -- active existence, too.