I remember there used to be an old book you could buy and it was basically a phone book for publishing houses or something like that. It had different magazines, papers, and other places listed in it and you could send your writing to as many of them as you wanted hoping that one of them would publish it. I can't remember what it was called though. I tried it with a few of my poems back when I was about half my current age. It never amounted to anything of course. It's a pretty despicable person or people that sells others false hope.