The kickstarter for the upcoming anthology "Temporally out of Order" has reached its funding goal, and that means submissions guidelines are now available! In brief, the editor wants stories of no more than 7500 words on the theme of some piece of technology or gadget being 'temporally out of order.' So a phone that makes calls to the 1920s, for example, or a fax machine that gets messages from the future. There are 7 open slots now, with more possible if more funding comes in. Pay rate is 5c a word+royalties, again subject to rise if more people fund it.
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Lore just announced on FB and their site that they're closing 
This is particularly sad for me since they were my first ever sale.
This is particularly sad for me since they were my first ever sale.
Lore just announced on FB and their site that they're closing
Bummer. I was waiting for a reply to a sub that I had high hopes for.
Lore just announced on FB and their site that they're closing
That's a bummer. There need to be more horror markets, not less! Sorry for the people who had subs there.
I pulled my submission from Ruthless Peoples after reading the first two stories that they published. I found both to be bad, and I also found one of them to be vaguely anti-Semitic.
I don't think the editor, who seemed like a nice guy, caught that. Nevertheless, I couldn't trust his taste and didn't want for my writing to appear alongside that sort of material.
I don't think the editor, who seemed like a nice guy, caught that. Nevertheless, I couldn't trust his taste and didn't want for my writing to appear alongside that sort of material.
FYI: Rose Lemberg and Shweta Narayan, the editors of Stone Telling and "An Alphabet of Embers", have signed a pledge promising not to divulge personal information provided to them in submissions (e.g., the real names of authors that use pseudonyms): http://roselemberg.net/?p=1038. A few other editors also commented on that post to say they pledge not to release personal information of submitters as well, though I'm not as familiar with the rest of their projects.
(Context: in the SFF community, editor Nick Mamatas recently publicly linked an author's blogging name with their publishing name, the latter of which might also be their real name. This roused some controversy, hence the pledge.)
(Context: in the SFF community, editor Nick Mamatas recently publicly linked an author's blogging name with their publishing name, the latter of which might also be their real name. This roused some controversy, hence the pledge.)
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Has anyone heard back on the 'Sch00lb00ks and S0rcery' anthology by Michael Jones? I subbed a story a few months ago but hadn't heard anything since, and I'm now debating whether I should ping the editor.
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V1c--thanks for the update! I guess no news is good news at this point, then.
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As an update to a prior post, the 'Temporally Out of Time' anthology reached a stretch goal on Kickstarter, so the pay rate there is now 6c/word. (I'm almost done with my draft of my submission for that market... really psyched about that one.)
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As an update to a prior post, the 'Temporally Out of Time' anthology reached a stretch goal on Kickstarter, so the pay rate there is now 6c/word. (I'm almost done with my draft of my submission for that market... really psyched about that one.)
A worthwhile effort that I supported, but sad to report the fundraising didn’t meet its goals. A tiny bright spot, one of the donor perks, an omnibus paperback of every story Plan B Mystery Magazine published for two years, is available at Amazon.
Includes stories by AWers Aislinn Batstone, S.R. Mastrantone, and me, as well as by awarded short mystery/crime writers Patti Abbott, Nick Andreychuk, Craig Faustus Buck, B.V Lawson, Jed Power, and others.
Worth clicking the Amazon link above just to see the cool illustrated cover art.
Best wishes,
Peter DiChellis
PS – At 540 pages and two pounds, the paperback not only makes a great read, maybe you could use it as the murder weapon in your next mystery story!
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Peter -- Delighted you and other denizens are being anthologized by Plan B. Beats folded, spindled and so forth. I'm keen for books that can double as murder weapons.
Well, people -- I just heard about a call that might pull me out of short-fiction vacationland: http://submissions.johnjosephadams.com/queers-destroy-sf/submit/
Yes, John Joseph Adams' Lightspeed is doing Queers Destroy Science Fiction. And if their Kickstarter goes well, there could be Queers Destroy Fantasy and Queers Destroy Horror.
Well, people -- I just heard about a call that might pull me out of short-fiction vacationland: http://submissions.johnjosephadams.com/queers-destroy-sf/submit/
Yes, John Joseph Adams' Lightspeed is doing Queers Destroy Science Fiction. And if their Kickstarter goes well, there could be Queers Destroy Fantasy and Queers Destroy Horror.
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That's really exciting!
Man, if Queers Destroy Fantasy gets funded I will submit so many things. So many.
Man, if Queers Destroy Fantasy gets funded I will submit so many things. So many.
Not sure if anything has been posted about this yet, but the submission period for "This Patchwork Flesh" (Edited by Michael Matheson) has been extended until March 31st, 2015. QUILTBAG Horror, only open to Canadians. I only know about it thanks to Rose Lemberg, who recommended I send one of my stories there after she decided it wasn't the right fit for "Alphabet of Embers."
http://michaelmatheson.wordpress.com/this-patchwork-flesh/
http://michaelmatheson.wordpress.com/this-patchwork-flesh/
Terraform is a new market with a base rate of $0.20 a word. They want science fiction under 2000, with a focus on near future. http://motherboard.vice.com/terraform
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Does anyone know about the magazines "Shades of Terror" and/or "Nameless Digest?" I stumbled across them on the Submissions Grinder, but when I went to submit some things to them today I found some things that concerned me.
I have a couple things I want to send to SoT, but not only do they appear to be brand new (I can't find anything they've published), but they've been mute on Twitter for over a month (and I can't find any other social media about them.) Does anyone know if they have a history, or if they still exist?
As for Nameless, the submission guidelines read weird to me:
This reads to me like they could take a 500-word excerpt of the story, post it on their site, and then not pay the author anything because it didn't wind up published in full, either in print or online. Am I reading this right?
I have a couple things I want to send to SoT, but not only do they appear to be brand new (I can't find anything they've published), but they've been mute on Twitter for over a month (and I can't find any other social media about them.) Does anyone know if they have a history, or if they still exist?
As for Nameless, the submission guidelines read weird to me:
This reads to me like they could take a 500-word excerpt of the story, post it on their site, and then not pay the author anything because it didn't wind up published in full, either in print or online. Am I reading this right?
I believe that just mean they have a limited promotional right to the work they have contracted beyond the normal first print/electronic rights.
Aggy is right. They are talking about pieces they purchase for publication. It's pretty standard for a contract to specify a number of words or a percentage of the story the anthology/magazine can put up on the web for free. 500 words is quite reasonable.
I've never submitted to either market, but I heard Nameless takes forever to respond, and I haven't really heard anything about SoT at all.
I've never submitted to either market, but I heard Nameless takes forever to respond, and I haven't really heard anything about SoT at all.
I have a story at SoT at around 60 days. Was thinking of pulling soon as I've heard nothing, and from the looks of SG and DT neither has anyone else.
The Temporally Out of Order anthology just closed its submissions. They reported getting over 100 submissions, of which they will choose 7.