Ithink the only way you can get it to work 100% of the time is by making YOUR OWN magazine
... perhaps you should find a magazine that has the same theme in relation to it as what you hope to publish. Another good idea is to get a reference from someone who is either your agent or claims to be your agent. Heck, if you can manage, find someone famouse and have them back you up for the magazine and then maybe you'll have an interview. It is a long difficult process but it pays off in the end. If your work attracts enough readers they might hire you for a weekly/monthly/yearly job
until your series has ended OR they might enslave you, forcing you to become a writer for them. At first you might have to pay THEM for it but if they like you they may turn the tables and become your bosses [img]smile.gif[/img] if that's what you want then HEAD ON IN if you just want to write stories and have them published then I recomend you take extreme caution because magazine publishing is like stepping on thin ice... I only got one thing published, EVER, and they didn't listen to me most of the time because i was only like 14 at the time when I first started getting my work put on paper. Halcyon Dreams 1.1 was a little bit of a hit, but I doubt that anyone even payed attention to it, they probably looked at the pictures and called it a day :/
NOW PUBLISHING YOUR OWN BOOK! well that's easy! and if you get your name in a magazine first WELL THEN you're on the right track!