Modern reprinting

I'm not a fan of the NYT's Modern Love column reprinting essays from anthologies, like Sunday's forthcoming Veronica Chambers essay. Not only because I have an advance of the anthology, The May Queen, but also because those works will be or are available to the reading public, and I know plenty of people who actually have interesting Modern Love stories. Or maybe I'm just bitter because Modern Love (along with every editor I've queried, probably about 10 or so, in the last 2 months), never got back to me about my submissions. Yes, I'm smart enough to know that silence means NO and I have other stuff going on, but still. I feel like as a reader it's more interesting to read original, unpublished content exclusive to the Times, and as an author, it deprives quality writers of the chance to share their stories in the column.

On Sunday, February, 19, Veronica Chambers' piece from the collection, "When He's Just That Into You," will appear in the Modern Love column of The New York Times.