I have a very big problem. Actually, it isn't just mine problem-it is in the field I decided to specialize in. When I started my "quest for knowledge" several years ago I begun in an already ill defined-field which was on the borders between science and philosophy but as I progressed I drifted further and further into something I can only classify as "something pertaining to many sciences but not really a part of any one". It become some even I-can-not-tell-what field of science and although I have completed my quest and came with a sound paradigm it doesn't really pertain to the scope of any of the journals in my area which I use in my references. Or to be more precise-it pertains to all of them but only "a little bit", this is why selecting the proper journal seems so difficult now.

In order to solve the problem(and actually thinking this is a solution)I decided to write a small e-mail explaining them my situation and what I have done-something like a 200-300 word abstract so they can know what my paper would be about and then asking them is this within the scope of their journal. None have answered me!

Does anyone have had similar experience? Did I do the right thing writing their editorial boards these e-mails? Did I "screw myself up"(sorry, if this is wrong vocabulary for this media)by doing this? Any suggestions what the effect of these e-mails could have been(e.g. they I am a crackpot, they just deleted them, they put me in a "forbidden list")? Am I doing something terribly wrong here? Can anybody give me advice as to how I can "handle the situation" from now on? Do such e-mails effect my chances of publishing there negatively(or outright stop them)?