Where to Publish? Wearing out Welcome?

From: Allan Stevo

Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2020 6:14 AM

To: Walter Block <[email protected]>

Subject: Suggestions on placing a piece with an editor?

Dear Professor Block,

I hope this note finds you well. I was wondering if you might have some advice on how to place an essay where an interested reader might see it.

I have written a 2,200 word “how to” piece on how a person affected by the corona bans can sue the governor of his state. It goes through steps, names lawyers and organizations, and of course cites a 2011 list of libertarian legal scholars that I came across created by you.

I believe that I am putting out more work right now than Mr Rockwell will publish at LRC from one individual, and I don’t know if it is a fit for Mises.org. Those are my two favorite venues for writing and reading analysis.

You have such vast contacts and you are so diligent in your defense of the truth, so I bet there are a few other high quality sites I may know little of that might come to your mind. Might you have any other suggestions, off the top of your head, on where such a piece may best fit and be read?

Thank you, Sir.

Allan Stevo

Dear Allan:

Please call me Walter, and allow me to call you Allan. We’re buddies after all, both having written very positive, complimentary, books on Ron Paul!

Stevo, Allan. 2012. How to Win America for Ron Paul and the Cause of Freedom in 2012; CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; http://www.amazon.com/America-Paul-Cause-Freedom-2012/dp/1469988380

http://www.amazon.com/America-Paul-Cause-Freedom-2012/dp/1469988380/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358718171&sr=1-1&keywords=%22about+Ron+Paul%22

Block, Walter E. 2012. Yes to Ron Paul and Liberty. New York: Ishi Press; http://www.amazon.com/dp/4871873234;

http://libertycrier.com/education/walter-blocks-new-book-on-ron-paul/

http://libertyunbound.com/node/862

Had you asked for my advice, not disqualifying also my two favorite venues, I would have mentioned precisely them! But, I sharply disagree with you about you wearing out your welcome with Lew and Jeff. This is an empirical issue, not one of praxeology. The best way to test this is to send them your article. If they both reject it, that suggests you’re sending them too much, but not definitively. They just might not like what you send them in any one specific case. Hey, I don’t have a 1000 batting average with the MI, or LRC, but I never feel I’m wearing out my welcome with them, and neither should you. You’re one of us! (For me, Ron Paul is a litmus test, and you pass that with flying colors!)

But, since you want suggestions for other venues, there are other good libertarian blogs beside those two. The Independent Institute, CEI, Bob Wenzel’s blogs, Acton Institute.

Another option: stick on a few footnotes, and try to get this published in a Law Review.

If all this fails, send your essay to me and I’ll give you more suggestions.

Best regards,

Walter

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2:44 am on July 4, 2020