Legal Commentary

Publishing, I've found so far, is, if not exactly like a box of chocolates, kinda like a bag of gummi bears.  Getting published in any journal is pretty good, but mmm, those red ones are tasty.  Also, if you put them in water overnight, they get really huge and gross.  (You think I've lost the thread of this metaphor, but then you've probably never left a box of reprints under a sprinkler.)   

Point is, I'd like some advice about the fall submission season.  My co-author and I have a manuscript we're very pleased with.  We'd prefer not to submit it to journals we wouldn't be very happy to publish with.  This raises the difficulty that in this compressed season, it may be difficult to get the attention of top journals.  Thus, we're considering selecting fifteen or so, and letting them each know that we will accept the first offer we receive from any one of them.  The theory here is that for the near-top journals, this will give them some reason to look at our draft without an expedite.

Thoughts or suggestions (off-line is also ok)?