Treating Yourself Makes Me Laugh

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The strangest thing happened to me Sunday.

Marco Renda, publisher of Treating Yourself, out the blue sent me an email rejecting my writing for their subpar marijuana magazne. Funnily I’ve never proposed anything to Treating Yourself.

My comment Treating Yourself is unreadable on FaceBook sent Treating Yourself publisher’s thin pock marked ugly skin into a serious hissy fit.

Throwing a tirade because his pot publication doesn’t pay writers or photographers.

Not even a thank u payment.

It’s the only publication I can think of that does this.

Abort Magazine, who I do perform pro bono writing for, provides advertising space to contributors for their projects.

Treating Yourself does not.

Abort reminds me of my Exclaim contributing editor days.

Except I’m older now.

And got paid then too.

Even Chart Magazne paid it’s contributors. According to Eye Magazine the publishers’ are / were extremely cheap.

Fuck, Conrad Black and Radler the Tattler woud love Marco Renda’s no pay the staff style. Black would be all over Renda’s only pay yourself and no one else. Then hand out alms to the poor to make yourself feel big.

That’s Conrad Black style.

Too bad Black’s in prison.

His Conrad Black guide to bong rips would probably sell better than TY. And numerous volumes too, knowing Black’s penchant for words and reefer.

I don’t even think gonzo god Hunter S. Thompson ever had a publisher contact him to say don’t propose any articles.

We hate you.

Your awesome writing gives us the fear.

HST would be a proud of me for setting a new bar for writers.

I’m so proud that this supposedly busy magazine publisher found the time to reject me in advance, when a real magazine publisher barely has time to put out their publication.

Renda sent me more words than Cannabis Culture publisher Marc Emery ever expressed when it came to contributing to CC in a single email.

Emery is probably one the best editors I’ve worked with. Next to the fantastic editors at NOW. James Keast at Exclaim should get props too. Gramlich is the man too.

Renda wouldn’t make it a week at any of those publications.

My first four articles for Cannabis Culture were proposed in four sentences. Back in the day before email it would have been a wet cocktail napkin pitch. A sentence for each article. There might have been an sentence or two saying hello. That’s it.

I’m at the point in my career where magazine publishers know I’m money. I turn their readers on, get them excited (negatively or positively), and have them talk about what they just read or send letters.