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1/22/2011 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 2/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#011511

Editor's Note

My humble apologies for the overlong hiatus between this newsletter and the last! Between travel for the holidays and two months of sickness that pretty much wiped me out, I am behind on absolutely everything. January's a traditional time for starting things over and wiping the slate clean, right?

- Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Things Shiny or Useful

Ira Glass on Storytelling: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ira+glass+on+storytelling&aq=0
* How to Improve Your Writing Style in 10 Minutes or Fewer: http://www.writersdigest.com/article/brush-up-on-your-style-in-10-minutes-or-less/?et_mid=73697&rid=2957480
* Have High Expectations of Yourself: http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2011/01/13/HaveHighExpectationsForYourself.aspx?et_mid=73697&rid=2957480
* Are These Filtering Words Weakening Your Fiction: http://writeitsideways.com/are-these-filter-words-weakening-your-fiction/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+writeitsideways+%28writeitsideways.com%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
* The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of Writer’s Block: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/pdf/jaba00061-0143a.pdf
* How Authors Can Hold Awesome Events: http://www.conradzero.com/how-authors-can-hold-awesome-events
* A Comprehensive and Totally Universal Listing of Every Problem a Story Has Ever Had: http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/EveryProblem.htm
* Passing the hat for web fiction: http://www.novelr.com/2010/10/28/passing-the-hat
* Self-promotion and what works: http://1stturningpoint.com/?p=5036
* How to Format Your Self-Published Book in Writing-World 10:21: http://www.writing-world.com/newsletter/2010/WW10-21.shtml

Featured Market

Bride of the Golem: An Anthology of Humorous Jewish Horror is a new anthology accepting submissions until filled.

The stories can employ a new Jewish twist on a mainstream horror theme (e.g. a tale about a Hassidic vampire mohel or about the Lubbavitchers reanimating Rebbe Schneerson). Or they can reinterpret horrific elements in classical Jewish folklore like the Golem or dybbuk. Or they can venture into entirely new territory.

...The content of the story should have some connection to Jewish culture deeper than the names of the main characters. Subtle references to Talmud, the prayerbook, Midrash are very welcome, though not required. You don't have to be Jewish to submit, but it helps if you have some prior knowledge of Jewish traditions.

The basics: H, 500-10,000 words, reprints okay, pays $500.

Market List Updates

To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Sinister Tales – DEAD MARKET	Literary horror and Gothic		$0.00	http://darknessproductions.com/guidelines.htm
Zombie Zak's House of Pain: Tales of Dark Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 4/30/11	Dark – no zombie stories.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/12/31/zombie-zaks-house-of-pain-tales-of-dark-horror-sub/
Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, The (opens for submissions 05/2011)	Compressed creations – flash fiction, micro fiction, art, etc.		$50.00	http://matterpress.com/journal/
Clonepod – DEAD MARKET	SF/F		$25.00	http://www.clonepod.org/submission-guide-lines/
Poe Little Thing	dark poetry and flash fiction – themed	$0.0500		http://nakedsnakepress.net/?page_id=18
Enchanted Conversation, The	Inspired by themed fairytales	$0.1000		http://www.fairytalemagazine.com/p/submissions.html
Chizine	Dark.	$0.0700		http://www.chizine.com/submissions_fiction.htm
Strange Horizons	F/SF/Spec-fic	$0.0700		http://www.strangehorizons.com/guidelines/fiction.shtml
Polluto	Dark counterculture, themed	$0.0630		http://www.polluto.com/submit.html
Analog Science Fiction and Fact	Science Fiction	$0.0600		http://www.analogsf.com/information/submissions.shtml
Bull Spec	F/SF	$0.0500		http://bullspec.blogspot.com/search/label/guidelines
Apex Magazine	SF, fantasy, and horror	$0.0500		http://www.apexbookcompany.com/submissions/
Beneath Ceaseless Skies	Literary adventure fantasy in secondary world settings.	$0.0500		http://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/page.php?p=submissions
Black Gate	adventure epic fantasy	$0.0300		http://www.blackgate.com/submission-guidelines/
Scheherezade's Bequest (Cabinet des Fees)	fairytales	$0.0100		http://www.cabinetdesfees.com/submissions/
Shadows & Tall Trees	Literary genre fiction	$0.0100		http://www.undertowbooks.com/submissions
Triangulation: Through the Wormhole ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 03/1/11	Surreal SF	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/10/20/through-the-worm-hole-submissions-open/
Fantastique Unfettered	SF/F - “fantastic fiction”		$33.00	http://www.fantastique-unfettered.com/p/writer-guidelines.html
Abyss & Apex	Spec-fic		$75.00	http://www.abyssapexzine.com/submissions/
Science Fiction Trails	SF in the Old West		$20.00	http://www.sciencefictiontrails.com/whats_new.html
Boy's Life – DEAD MARKET	Fiction subs now by assignment only. - 1/16/11		$750.00	http://www.boyslife.org/main.jsp?abo
Cosmos Magazine	SF		$297.04	http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/pdf/CMag_FictionGuidelines.pdf
Unspoken Water	Supernatural only—wants weird and uncanny, not regular fantasy etc.		$15.86	http://www.ian-hunter.co.uk/index.php/unspoken-water
Fiction Desk	All genres.		$31.73	http://www.thefictiondesk.com/submissions/short-story-submission-guidelines.php
Demeter's Spicebox	Lesser-known fairytale types set in unfamiliar cultures. Themed issues.		$10.00	http://www.cabinetdesfees.com/demeters-spicebox/ds-submission-guidelines/
Box of Delights ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 05/31/11 OR WHEN FILLED	Horror, dark fantasy, and weird		$13.23	http://aeonpressbooks.com/titles/box-of-delights/
Phantom Drift	New weird, slipstream, fabulism		$50.00	http://www.wordcraftoforegon.com/pd/?page_id=2
Crimson Pact – RECURRING ANTHOLOGIES	Shared world		$10.00	http://thecrimsonpact.com/submission.html
Bride of the Golem ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Humorous Jewish horror.		$500.00	http://mimeticdeclination.blogspot.com/2010/12/call-for-stories-bride-of-golem.html
Ocean Stories ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 3/31/11	Ocean-themed		$25.00	http://www.elektrikmilkbathpress.com/submissions
It Lives ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 3/25/11	Themed: creation, birth, rebirth		$10.00	http://www.runewright.com/submissions.html
Spirit Legends ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 5/15/11	Themed: spirits, ghosts, and gods		$10.00	http://www.runewright.com/submissions.html
Best Served Cold ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 6/15/11	Themed: justified revenge		$10.00	http://www.runewright.com/submissions.html
Hallows Eve Vol. 1 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 8/20/11	Themed: Halloween		$10.00	http://www.runewright.com/submissions.html
Holiday Spirit and Mayhem Vol. 1 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 10/10/11	Themed: winter holiday		$10.00	http://www.runewright.com/submissions.html
The Journal of Unlikely Entomology	All genres, must pertain to bugs.	$0.0100		http://www.grumpsjournal.com/
FaePublishing	Fantasy and science fiction.	$0.0500		http://www.faepublishing.com/blog1/?page_id=2
Damnation and Dames ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 11/01/11	Supernatural noir.	$0.0200		http://ticonderogapublications.com/tp/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=114:new-market-da
Schrodinger's Mouse	SF – hard and philosophical.	$0.0200		http://www.schrodingersmouse.com/Fiction_Submission_Guidelines.html
Ray Gun Revival	space opera and golden age sci-fi	$0.0100		http://www.raygunrevival.com/nov2010/index.html#submit
Technicolor Tentacles (Library of Horror) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 04/20/2011	Bizarro horror	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/12/05/technicolor-tentacles-new-bizarro-horror-anthology/
These Terrible Times	Zombie-themed	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/08/10/these-terrible-times-a-new-quarterly-pulp-will-beg/
Malicious Malpractices (Library of Horror) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 03/31/11	Medical-themed	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/11/09/malicious-malpractices-submissions-now-open/
Zombies Without Borders (Library of Horror) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 03/01/11	Zombie stories set in non-US countries.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/09/01/zombiekind-zombies-without-borders-submissions-now/
Through the Eyes of the Undead II (Library of Horror) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 05/2011	Stories from a zombie POV.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/11/28/through-the-eyes-of-the-undead-ii-open-for-submiss/
The Reaper Virus (Library of Horror) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Shared universe zombie apocalypse.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/11/07/submissions-are-open-for-the-reaper-virus-antholog/
Made You Flinch—Again! (Library of Horror) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 03/21/11	Horror	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/12/07/made-you-flinch-again-submissions-now-open/
Freud and Kinsey	All genres, themed to sexual politics and sexual repression (not erotica).	$0.0025		http://freudandkinsey.weebly.com/submissions.html
OG's Speculative Fiction	speculative fiction		$35.00	htp://theopinionguy.com/submissions
On the Premises THEMED CONTESTS	Themed contests.		$180.00	http://www.onthepremises.com
Mortis Operandi ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 1/1/11 UNTIL FILLED.	Supernatural crime		$50.00	http://theharrowpress.com/submissions/
parABnormal	Paranormal, folklore-based—spooky okay, but no horror.		$15.00	http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/parabnormalGL.htm
Phantasmacore	All spec-fic		$5.50	http://www.phantasmacore.com/submissions/
In Flux ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE ?	Themed to powerful abusers in a self-correcting universe.	$0.0050		http://www.blueberrylanebooks.com/?page_id=65
Leather, Denim & Silver (Pill Hill Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Themed to monster-hunters.	$0.0025		http://www.pillhillpress.com/monsterhunter.html
Detective Horror (Grand Mal Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL CLOSED	Detective stories with a horror slant		$25.00	http://www.grandmalpress.com/submissions.php
Frightmares ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 07/2011	Horror flash fiction.		$0.00	http://horrorwritingcontest.com/Frightmares%20Flash%20Fiction.htm
Sci-Fi Short Story	SF fiction, novel excerpts, poetry, reviews		$3.00	http://scifishortstory.com/#/submissions/4545206101
Attack of the 50 Ft Book ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 3/1/11	Giant monster stories	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/12/01/attack-of-the-50ft-book-a-giant-monster-antho-open/
Candle in the Attic Window ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 01/01/11 – 02/28/11	Gothic horror	$0.0100		http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=9409
Wumpus Tales	All speculative.	$0.0050		http://www.wumpustales.com/submissions.html
How the West Was Wicked ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 01/05/11 UNTIL FILLED	Dark/weird fiction in an Old West setting.	$0.0025		http://www.pillhillpress.com/wickedwest.html
Dark Heroes ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 01/19/11 UNTIL FILLED.	Something monstrous is the hero.	$0.0025		http://www.pillhillpress.com/darkheroes.html
A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 4/1/11 – 7/1/11	Holiday-themed extreme horror.	$0.0025		http://www.pillhillpress.com/massacre.html
Fantasy World Geographic	Fantasy, including flash fiction and choose-your-own-adventures		$5.00	http://skaggsworld.com/fwg/submission-guidelines/
Daikaijuzine – DEAD MARKET	All genres, mostly spec-fic		$5.00	http://www.daikaijuzine.com/dkz/?page_id=40
The Epocalypse ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED.	Collaborative email-formatted post-apocalyptic communications.		$0.00	http://www.pillhillpress.com/epocaylpse.html
Zombie Kong ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 02/15/11	Stories involving a giant zombie ape.	$0.0200		http://booksofthedead.blogspot.com/2010/11/zombie-kong.html
Linger Fiction	Fantasy, science fiction, and horror		$10.00	http://lingerfiction.com/submission-guidelines/
Dark Highlands SEMI-ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY – SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED YEAR-ROUND	Dark SF/F, Horror, and Mystery.		$25.00	http://www.darkhighlands.com/submission.php

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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11/15/10 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 12/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#111510

Editor's Note
When I'm so busy with day job work that I barely have time to get any writing done, at least I can still "work" on my writing by listening to various writing how-to podcasts.

For inspiration and advice for beginning writers:
http://isbw.murlafferty.com/

For higher-level writing discussions:
http://www.writingexcuses.com/
http://www.sff.net/odyssey/podcasts.html

For business aspects of writing:
http://writingmeviocom.mevio.com/

And the most recent addition to the writing podcasts out there is my very own MinnSpec writers group podcast, which I've just started up. These are recordings of our monthly discussions/presentations. I still need to get an RSS feed set up, but you can listen to the first session here:
http://files.meetup.com/137839/MinnSpec-ep1-conventions-pt1.mp3
http://files.meetup.com/137839/MinnSpec-ep1-conventions-pt2.mp3

I also have a story out in Northern Lights, an anthology of local Minnesota spec-fic authors. The stories include are fantasy, science fiction, horror, and unclassifiable weird--and my story, "Radiator Burped," is among them. You can buy a copy here.




Excerpt:

"Tsang!" he began, opening the door. He stopped when he realized that he was looking at Michael. "Michael, sorry. I thought you were my housemate coming back. I still haven't met him. Excuse me, I was just taking a nap." He ran a hand through his rumpled hair.

"I had to work longer than expected," Michael explained as he tossed his coat onto the couch. "Forgive me? It's too late to go out, but I did pick up a nice bottle of burgundy. If you have some spaghetti and sauce, we could improvise." Michael smiled. "Next time I'll do better. Hey, those are some pretty fine pictures. You paint, right? Are they yours?"

Eric shuffled his feet. "Yeah."

Michael's smile vanished. "Do you have a pet snake?"

Eric blinked. "No. Why?"

"I thought for a second that I saw something scaly in the corner . . . my eyes must be tired from looking at legal contracts. Never mind." Despite his words, Michael squinted at the corner.

Buy Northern Lights

- Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Things Shiny or Useful

* Dealing with Writer's Block: http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_08_31.html#019441
* An interesting editing exercise: http://blog.writersdigest.com/promptly/Cut+One+Word+Per+Sentence+This+Technique+Is+Pure+Magic.aspx
* The importance of structure: http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/anatomy-of-a-best-selling-novel-structure-matters-part-one/

Featured Market

AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review is a new, pro-paying SF market that now accepts submissions from anywhere (though Canadian ones are preferred).

AE welcomes submissions from both established and emerging authors. We publish exclusively science fiction, though our interpretation of the genre can be quite inclusive.

The basics: SF, 500-3,000 words, no reprints, pays CA$.06/word (currently $.059/word in U.S. currency).

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Note: Realms of Fantasy has risen from the dead once more! If you had a story in the slush pile at the time of closing, please let them know if you still want them to consider it. See http://www.rofmag.com/2010/11/11/rof-fiction-help-me-internets/ for details.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Realms of Fantasy	Fantasy and unclassifiable	$0.0600		http://www.rofmag.com/contact-us/
Fantasy Magazine	Fantasy	$0.0500		http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/about-2/about/
Wild Passions ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 11/30/10	Male/male romance (need not be explicit) with anthropomorphic character.	$0.0130		http://stormmoonpress.com/submissions.aspx
Daughters of Artemis ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 11/30/10	Female/female werewolf romance (need not be explicit).	$0.0130		http://stormmoonpress.com/submissions.aspx
Clones and Crucifixes ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 12/20/10	Futuristic horror themed to demonic possession.	$0.0100		http://corpulentinsanitypress.com/submissions/clones-and-crucifixes/
Beta City ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 1/31/11	Shared world, themed to alien invasion.	$0.0100		http://betacity.weebly.com/submission-guidelines.html
Through the Wormhole ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 3/1/11	Mondo SF	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/10/20/through-the-worm-hole-submissions-open/
Ghostology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 1/31/11	Ghost stories	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/10/01/ghostology-hauntings-from-the-librarysubmissions-n/
Kasma Magazine	SF		$10.00	http://www.kasmamagazine.com/submissions.html
Greek Myths Revisited ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – CANCELLED.	Greek myths remixed into H/SF/F		$40.00	http://www.sonar4publications.com/gmr.html
Innsmouth Free Press	Lovecraftian		$24.77	http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/submissions.html
Reflection's Edge – DEAD MARKET	All spec-fic		$15.00	http://www.reflectionsedge.com/submit.html
Futurismic – DEAD MARKET	SF - no space opera		$200.00	http://futurismic.com/about/guidelines.html
Icarus	Spec-fic with a gay male protagonist		$50.00	http://www.lethepressbooks.com/guidelines.htm#About_contributions_for_Icarus
io9's Environmental Writing ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 12/11/11	Themed to dealing with an environmental disaster.		$2,000.00	http://io9.com/5681230/io9s-environmental-writing-contest
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review	Science Fiction	$0.0590		http://aescifi.ca/index.php/submissions
Dark Moon Digest	Horror – dark, scary		$10.00	http://www.darkmoondigest.com/Submissions.htm
Escape Pod	spec-fic		$0.05	http://escapepod.org/guidelines/
Trembles	Horror		$5.00	http://www.tremblesmag.com/guidelines.html

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

If you were forwarded this email and want to subscribe, go here. To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
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10/15/10 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 11/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#101510

Editor's Note
When life gets really busy, you're doing good if you can meet your obligations. And don't worry about the frills.

That is all.

- Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Things Shiny or Useful

* http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/09/07/we-5-1-third-person-limited/
* Public appearance: http://kellyrfineman.livejournal.com/605955.html
* http://podcasts.odysseyworkshop.org/odysseypodcasts_41_gregoryfrost_viewpointvoicepsychicdistance1.mp3

Featured Market

Basement Stories has recently increased their pay rate to $.03/word, boosting them to the upper level of semi-pro magazines. And that's just darn awesome.

Basement Stories are stories that you don't want to believe but know to be true, stories you whisper to your kid sister at two in the morning in the dank dark moldy basement of your parent's house, stories that you wish were true but know aren't. Basement Stories are the stories you wake up dreaming, the really great ones that fade within a couple of seconds.

Basement Stories is a diatribe against the ordinary and the mediocre. We believe that there's room in everyone's life for the fantastic, the unbelievable, and the wonderful. The staff of Basement Stories have all, at one point or another in their lives, worked as readers for various magazines, from the great and terrible literary giants of the midwest to the tiny leak zines of undergraduate schools across the land, and watched fantastic, brilliant, daring, soaring stories get rejected because they didn't work for the magazine in question. And that's a damn shame.

The basics: all genres, prefers SF/F, all lengths, but prefers under 6,000 words, pays $.03/word.


Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Basement Stories	All genres - prefers SF/F	$0.0300		http://www.basementstories.org/submissions.html
Jack-o'-Spec ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE WHEN FILLED	Halloween-themed spec fic	$0.0300		http://ravenelectrick.com/Jackospec.html
Dead Red Heart ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 12/01/10	Australia-themed vampire stories.	$0.0198		http://ticonderogapublications.com/news/jobs/dead-red-heart/
Dreams of Decadence – DEAD MARKET	urban fantasy and paranormal romance	$0.0100		http://www.dreamsofdecadencemag.com/
Three-Lobed Burning Eye	All speculative – especially Horror Dark Fantasy and Magic Realism	$0.0100		http://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html
Liminality: Tales from the Borders of Speculative Fiction ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 01/15/11	Stories in-between genres.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/10/05/liminality-tales-from-the-borders-of-speculative-f/
Steam Works ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 12/31/2010	Steampunk	$0.0100		http://www.hydrapublications.com/2010/09/28/submissions-now-open-for-steampunk-anthology/
Blue Dream Magazine	All genres – especially weird, horror, bizarre, and dark	$0.0025		http://bluedreampress.blogspot.com/2010/10/now-open-to-submissions.html
Fantastique Unfettered	SF/F - “fantastic fiction”		$33.00	http://www.fantastique-unfettered.com/p/writer-guidelines.html
Forgotten Prophecy ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	High fantasy		$5.00	http://www.hydrapublications.com/2010/10/04/submissions-now-open-for-forgotten-prophecy-e-anthology/
Explorers: Beyond the Horizon ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 12/31/10	SF/F themed to “explorers”		$5.00	http://deadrobotssociety.com/anthology/
Eschatology Journal	Lovecraftian or apocalyptic		$5.00	http://eschatologyjournal.org/submissions/
Extinct Doesn't Mean Forever ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY DUE 01/30/2011	Themed: extinction	$0.0025		http://phoenixsullivan.blogspot.com/p/extinct-call-for-submissions.html
Fantasy World Geographic	Fantasy, including flash fiction and choose-your-own-adventures		$3.00	http://skaggsworld.com/fwg/submission-guidelines/
Onirismes	Fantasy, science fiction, and slipstream	$78.5600		http://onirismes.com/

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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09/15/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
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• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

08/15/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 09/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#081510

Editor's Note
Sometimes the best way to work through pain or grief or fear is by writing it out. I've done that a couple of times--I have stories that I've written like a surgeon cutting out a tumor. I think/hope that I've buried it well enough that a casual reader wouldn't say, "Ah, there is the writer working out their trauma," which is what happens when it's done badly.

Rarely does a chance come along to prevent pain or grief through writing, but that's what I'm doing next. I'm writing a donation-funded serial story (launching soon) to help cover the cost of my mother's cancer treatment. The story is a steampunk murder mystery about a circus surviving and traveling through post-Civil War America after an aetheric event wipes out 3/4s of the population on the same evening the circus ringmaster is murdered. This is a scary project for me--the reason for it is stressful, the format is unfamiliar (serial story, podcast), and I'll be working under time pressure to produce episodes every other week. Wish me luck! And buy a ticket for the circus.

- Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Things Shiny or Useful

* Balancing a character's pain: http://www.apexbookcompany.com/2010/08/slush-lessons-balancing-pain%E2%80%94things-to-consider-when-throwing-rocks-at-your-character/
* How to Write a Book: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2010/06/28/how_to_write_a_book.html
 

Featured Market

L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest is the most prestigious award for beginning science fiction and fantasy writers. If you have not yet sold 3 stories to pro markets, you should be submitting every quarter. And now they accept email submissions!

Established and sponsored by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983, the "Writers Award Contest" was a budding competition aimed at discovering, and eventually publishing, deserving amateur and aspiring writers. The field of speculative fiction and fantasy, was chosen not only for Mr. Hubbard's love of and success within the genre—but for the freedom of imagination and expression it provided as what he described as the "herald of possibility."

The Writers of the Future Program, established in the finest tradition of the professional giving a helping hand to the novice, has become the largest, the most well-known and the best established discovery vehicle in the field. To date, winners have gone on to publish over 700 novels and 3,000 short stories, and have appeared on international bestseller lists, even reaching the #1 slot on the New York Times and London Sunday Times.

The basics: SF/F, 17,000 words max, no professionally published reprints, quarterly first prize $1,000, annual grand prize an additional $5,000.


Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Rockets, Swords, and Rainbows ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/21/2010	SF/F with GLBTQ elements	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/08/01/rockets-swords-and-rainbows-tales-of-science-ficti/
Made You Flinch ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2010	Unnerving, disturbing horror	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/07/23/made-you-flinch-horror-stories-to-unnerve-disturb-/
Cthulhurotica ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 09/15/10	Lovecraft-inspired erotica	$0.0100		http://www.cthulhurotica.com/Submission_Guidelines.html
Gone with the Dirt ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Zombies in the American South during Civil War/Reconstruction	$0.0025		http://www.pillhillpress.com/gwtd.html
L Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future QUARTERLY ANTHOLOGY.	Spec-fic		$5,000.00	http://www.writersofthefuture.com/
Speakeasy ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 09/30/2010	Fantasy stories set in/themed to the 1920s.		$44.78	http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/anthology/submissions-call-for-2011-anthology
Fantastique Unfettered	SF/F - “fantastic fiction”		$33.00	http://www.fantastique-unfettered.com/p/writer-guidelines.html
Assassins: Clash of Steel ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/10	Fantasy themed to assassins/killers.		$30.00	http://www.roguebladesentertainment.com/products/rb-presents/rb-presents-anthologies/assassins-a-clash-of-steel-anthology/
Flash Me Magazine - DEAD MARKET (on indefinite hiatus)	all genres		$25.00	http://www.wingedhalo.com/guidelines.html
Alien Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/01/2010	Horror themed to aliens		$25.00	http://grandmalpress.com/submissions.php
Hard Boiled Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/01/2010	Detective stories with a horror slant		$25.00	http://grandmalpress.com/submissions.php
Literary Hatchet	Dark fiction		$15.00	http://www.hatchetonline.com/HatchetOnline/LiteraryHatchet/submissions.htm
Potter's Field 4 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Horror themed to graveyards		$12.00	http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/pottersfield.htm
Escape Velocity - DEAD MARKET	hard SF and non-fiction		$10.00	http://www.adventurebooksofseattle.com/evsubmissions.htm
BĂŞte Noir	All genres, dark		$10.00	http://www.betenoiremagazine.com/submissionguidelines.htm
It Came From Her Purse ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED (pub Spring 2011)	SF/F/H themed to the anthology title		$10.00	http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/purse.htm
Tower of Light Fantasy Magazine	All fantasy and blended fantasy genres		$5.00	http://www.tolfantasy.net/
Etched Offerings ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 09/01/10 - 10/31/10	Themed to Paganism, magick, and/or gods and myth.		$5.00	http://misanthropepress.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/etched-offerings-voices-from-the-cauldron-of-story/
Innsmouth Free Press: Historical Lovecraft ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 09/01/10 - 01/03/2011	Historical fiction with a Lovecraftian twist	$0.0096		http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?p=7050
Often Inspired	Themed issues. F/SF/H/Mystery		$25.00	http://ofteninspired.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=349&sid=e0baf85b46c135f1fd5c2bb26a5453b7
Revenant - DEAD MARKET	Undead, especially zombies.	$0.0025		http://www.revenantmagazine.com/Printguidelines.htm
Third Order - DEAD MARKET	Stories about faith and religion		$20.00	http://www.thirdorder.org/guidelines.html
New Fairy Tale ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/01/2010	Themed: "New" fairy tales--cautionary tales.		$15.00	http://aurorawolf.com/guidelines/ (scroll to bottom)

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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07/16/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 08/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#071610

Editor's Note
It's...done. Vicesteed, the steampunk mystery novel that I've been working on for way longer than I care to think about, is for-real, until-a-publisher-tells-me-otherwise, final-polishing-complete finished.

What do I do now?

For months and months, all my writing time has gone to editing this beast, and the short stories I've written have been squeezed in around the edges. It's a very strange feeling to try and get back in the butt-in-chair, producing at least a set number of words mindset. It's not writer's block, because I know what I need to do next. I have another novel barely started (from my idiot phase when I thought I could edit Vicesteed in a couple of hours on Saturdays). I have an outline. I know what needs to be written next.

It's like the sign taped up over my writing desk says, "There is no stress, there is only do."

- Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Things Shiny or Useful

* Writing and a Faith Perspective: http://www.apexbookcompany.com/blog/2010/07/on-faith-and-friction/
* What 81% of Agents Expect on the First Page (funny): http://stiryourtea.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-81-of-agents-expect-on-first-page.html
* Why Smart Characters Make Dumb Mistakes: http://www.plottopunctuation.com/blog/show/why-smart-characters-make-dumb-mistakes
* Writing Realistic Injuries: www.users.totalise.co.uk/~leiafee/ramblings/realistic_injuries.htm
* Enhancing POV: http://www.writersdigest.com/article/using-perception-to-enhance-your-characters-pov/
* Nonstandard Structure: http://mrissa.livejournal.com/727223.html
* QueryTracker - a resource for looking up what agent represents what writer: http://querytracker.net/clients.php
* Researching an agent's track record: http://www.sff.net/people/VictoriaStrauss/trackrecord.html
* Show vs. Tell - without cliches: http://magicalwords.net/faith-hunter/show-dont-tell-conveying-emotion
* How to handsell a book (step-by-step): http://writersdigest.com/article/10-simple-steps-to-handselling-your-book/
* How warfare will work in the future (SF research): http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/05/28/the-big-idea-david-j-williams-2/
* A good writing blog (by published fantasy authors): http://magicalwords.net/
 

Featured Market

Pixiu Press' Heritage Tales series is made of speculative fiction stories for children ages 8-12. These will be published as fully illustrated, stand-alone books.

Heritage Tale stories are speculative fiction stories about American immigrants. We're interested
in all aspects of American immigration: the events leading up to decision to immigrate, the journey
to America, the trials and triumphs of a new life in America, the subsequent journeys back to the
homeland, and anything else that might constitute the "immigrant experience." The only
requirement is that the story be told using myths and/or legends from the native culture of the
immigrant.

The basics: all speculative fiction, themed, 8,000 - 12,000 words, pays $250 + royalties.


Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Science in my Fiction	SF inspired by a scientific discovery or innovation		$25.00	http://crossedgenres.com/simf/submissions/
Flagship	SF and F		$25.00	http://sites.google.com/a/flyingislandpress.com/flyingislandpress/flagship/submission-guidelines-1
Their Dark Masters (Lame Goat Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 08/15/10 - 01/15/11	Themed: vampires		$10.00	http://lamegoatpress.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tdmasters&action=display&thread=342
Harrow - DEAD MARKET	Fantasy Supernatural H		$6.00	http://www.theharrow.com
State of Horror: Pennsylvania ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/15/10	Themed: Pennsylvania horror		$3.00	http://rymfireebooks.com/submissions.html
Heritage Tales	Middle-grade speculative fiction about American immigrants using myth/legend from native culture		$250.00	http://pixiupress.com/submissions.html
Afterburn SF – DEAD MARKET	traditional F/SF/H		$30.00	http://www.afterburnsf.com/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx
Sci Phi – DEAD MARKET	Philosophical sci-fi and sci-fi-ish philosophy		$10.00	http://sciphijournal.com/submission-guidelines/
Fantastique Unfettered	SF/F - “fantastic fiction”		$10.00	http://www.fantastique-unfettered.com/p/writer-guidelines.html
Groanology 2: A Horror Comedy ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 09/30/2010	Humorous horror themed to monsters with psychiatric illnesses.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/07/01/groanology-2-a-horror-comedy-submissions-now-open/
Hazard Cat	Cat-themed	$0.0050		http://hazardcat.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Zombie Art-Inspired ONE-TIME ANTHLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Zombie-themed, inspired by cover art.	$0.0025		http://www.pillhillpress.com/zombie.html
2013: The Aftermath ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	2013 post-apocalyptic	$0.0025		http://www.pillhillpress.com/2013.html
Misfit Magazine	Eclectic, all genres		$10.00	http://www.misfit-magazine.com/2010/02/call-for-submissions.html
Kasma Magazine	SF		$10.00	http://www.kasmamagazine.com/guidelines.htm
Death Rattle	Horror		$10.00	http://www.evilcatpress.com/submissions.html
Science Fiction and Fantasy Cookbook, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Food-themed F/SF, and F/SF recipes		$15.00	http://www.swordandsagapress.com/sf--fantasy-cookbook.html
Portable Muse – DEAD MARKET	Literary		$25.00	http://www.portablemuse.com/submit.html
Red Penny Papers, The	Dark pulp and gothic	$0.0100		http://redpennypapers.com/submissions/
Darwin's Evolutions – DEAD MARKET (closed to outside subs)	Speculative fiction.		$25.00	http://darwinsevolutions.com/wordpress/index.php/submissions-2/submissions/
Cast Macabre	Horror/dark – psychological		$7.41	http://www.castmacabre.org/p/submission-guidelines.html

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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06/15/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 7/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#061510

Editor's Note
You'd think I'd have learned by now that I will always have more than enough writing tasks to do. But no--I keep thinking that I have time to squeeze in just one more. Then something else comes up and that one last thing just becomes impossible. Deadlines help some, but their effectiveness relies on correctly estimating a) how long things will take, and b) how much time you have. This month the thing that slipped through the cracks was a story I hoped to get written for a contest that closes at the end of the month. I do have an excuse--something else more urgent came up--but it's still disappointing. On the other hand, I did get a lot done, including giving a presentation on social media for writers and working up an agent list and a query letter for my novel, Vicesteed.

My blog post on social media for writers: http://cloudscudding.livejournal.com/981958.html
And my post wherein I drew up my own rough guidelines for writing a query: http://cloudscudding.livejournal.com/983157.html

Things Shiny or Useful

* How to write Twitter fiction: http://nelilly.greententacles.com/twitter-fiction-is-a-joke/
* Making research a little more fun with sexy librarians and Lady Gaga: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/29/librarians-do-gaga.html
* Balancing online time and writing time: http://1stturningpoint.com/?p=4151
* Timeline for marketing once you have a book contract: http://anywherebeyond.livejournal.com/279474.html
* Writing a one-sentence pitch: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/05/how-to-write-one-sentence-pitch.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NathanBransford+%28Nathan+Bransford+-+Literary+Agent%29
* The Importance of Specificity: http://blog.writersdigest.com/mfaconfidential/The+Importance+Of+Specific+Details.aspx


Featured Market
This month there are two featured markets, both pro-rate paying.

Daily Science Fiction is a new pro-rate paying market for all speculative fiction.

Daily Science Fiction (DSF) is a market accepting speculative fiction stories from 100 to 10,000 words in length. By this we mean science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, etc. All that fits under the broader science fiction umbrella. We have a special need for flash fiction.

The basics: science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and speculative, 100 - 10,000 words, no reprints, pays $.08/word + additional $.05/word if used in anthology.

Towards an Accessible Future ONE-TIME CONTEST (by Redstone Science Fiction) is a pro-paying contest with a noble goal.

What does a world, or space station, or whatever look like when it has been designed to be accessible to everyone and how would people live together there?

The submissions should portray disability as a simple fact, not as something to be overcome or something to explain why a character is evil. The submissions should also incorporate the portrayal of disability in a world where universal access is a shared cultural value.

The basics: science fiction themed to universal access, 5,000 words max, winner receives $300 (at least $.06/word).


Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Dreams and Nightmares Magazine	SF & F poetry and short-short fiction		$12.00	http://dreamsandnightmares.interstellardustmites.com/
Heliotrope -DEAD MARKET	SF, F, Mystery, H	$0.1000		http://www.heliotropemag.com/submission-guidelines/
Daily Science Fiction	All speculative fiction except “pure horror.”	$0.0800		http://dailysciencefiction.com/submit/story/guidelines
Bewere the Night ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 12/30/2010	Were-creature themed urban fantasy	$0.0500		http://squirrel-monkey.livejournal.com/144059.html
Damnation Books	Dark fiction: Thrillers/SF/F/H	$0.0300		http://www.damnationbooks.com/submissions.php
Brain Harvest	Unique, original, and weird	$0.0300		http://www.brainharvestmag.com/submit/
Horror Library Vol. 5 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 06/01/10 UNTIL FILLED	Horror	$0.0150		http://cuttingblock.net/submissions.html#hl5
Fearology 2: Beware All Animals Great and Small ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 08/22/10	Horror themed to 1 or more real-world creatures.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/05/25/fearology-2-beware-all-animals-great-and-small-sub/
A Glitch in the Continuum ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 10/15/10	Themed to time travel and alternate realities/dimensions	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/06/10/a-glitch-in-the-continuumsubmissions-open/
Fallen: An Anthology of Demon Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 08/31/10	Horror	$0.0100		http://northernfrightspublishing.webs.com/guidelines.htm
Bourbon Penn	Odd and imaginative	$0.0050		http://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions.php
Out of Ruins	Dark, weird	$0.0025		http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/submissions/
Towards an Accessible Future (Redstone Magazine) ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 08/15/10	Themed to a world/space station designed to be accessible to all (incl disabled)		$300.00	http://redstonesciencefiction.com/contest/
The Speculative Ramayana ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 07/31/10	Speculative fiction where the Ramayana is used in a key way		$25.00	http://www.zubaanbooks.com/RamayanaAnthology.asp
Marginal Boundaries – ON INDEFINITE HIATUS	All spec-fic		$20.00	http://www.marginalboundaries.com/submission-guidelines/
Fear and Trembling Magazine – DEAD MARKET	Horror and dark fiction		$5.00	http://www.fearandtremblingmag.com/guidelines.php
Rigor Amortis ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 07/01/2010	Zombie erotica/romance			http://wingsliftingwide.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/rigor-amortis-official-guidelines/
Tor.com	SF/F	$0.2500		http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=59268

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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05/17/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 6/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#051710

Editor's Note
Convention season is coming up! And do go to those SF/F or writing conventions in your area--you'll learn a lot, come back at your work with a different perspective, and maybe even make some friends. But maybe your budget doesn't extend to the entrance fees and hotel room. Or maybe you just need a warmup to ease into things. Or maybe you just think the idea of an online SF/F writing convention is awesome.

Allow me to introduce you to Coyote Con (http://coyotecon.com/), an online SF/F writing convention hosted by Drollerie Press. It's taking place on weekends throughout the month of May, so there are two more sessions left (http://coyotecon.com/the-schedule/). I've really enjoyed the panels I've sat in on, and I highly recommend it. Or, if you don't have time to follow a panel in realtime, the transcripts (http://coyotecon.com/transcripts/) could be a gold-mine.

Publications:
"These Things Take Time" is my story about a man who takes unusual measures to figure out what went wrong in his first marriage. It's out now in Volume Two Number Two of Emerald Tales, It Was a Bright and Sunny Day (scroll to the bottom), which can be purchased in print or downloaded for free.

"The coffee's weak," Mark said. It came out more accusatory than he'd intended, but Lily had become quite inconsiderate recently. On top of the smaller things, like making the coffee the wrong strength, she no longer asked about his day, complaining about her work problems instead.

Of course, if she had asked about his day, he would have lied. She still believed he was working extra hours at the office. He didn't dare tell her about the project that was truly taking up his time.

Read more.

Things Shiny or Useful

* The power of nicknames: http://www.plottopunctuation.com/blog/show/78
* What characters need: http://www.firstnovelsclub.com/2010/04/workshop-whose-story-is-this-and-why.html
* Telling signs: http://storyflip.blogspot.com/2010/04/re-write-wednesday-dont-tell-me-why.html
* Making flawed characters appealing: http://scribechat.com/archives/1150
* Increasing writing productivity (good stuff past the quotes): http://kathykulig.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-increase-productivity.html


Featured Market
Tor.com is a highly professional SF/F market. They don't have any submission guidelines up on their site, but suffice it to say that you shouldn't bother submitting a story unless you truly believe it's really high quality. All submissions should be emailed directly to the editor.

The basics: science fiction and fantasy, any length (prefers under 12,000 words), pays $.25/word for the first 5,000 words and decreases after that, no reprints.

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Tor.com	SF/F	$0.2500		http://www.ralan.com/m.pro.php#Trdotcm
Appalachian Folklore ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 09/01/10	Horror/dark fiction themed to Appalachian superstition	$0.0300		http://michaelknost.blogspot.com/2010/04/new-anthology-guidelines.html
More Scary Kisses ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 11/01/2010	Paranormal romance	$0.0170		http://ticonderogapublications.com/news/2010/05/more-scary-kisses/
Tattered Souls 2 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2010	Horror	$0.0150		http://www.cuttingblock.net/submissions.html#tattered
Nossa Morte - DEAD MARKET	horror/thriller	$0.0100		http://nossamorte.com/guidelines.html
The Snuff Syndicate ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 06/30/10	Themed to serial killers.	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/02/19/the-snuff-syndicate-guidelines/
Malicious Deviance ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Spec-fic with strong horror element, unsympathetic protagonist	$0.0100		http://maliciousdeviance.yolasite.com/submission-guidelines.php
Scape	Speculative YA (broadly defined)	$0.0100		http://www.scapezine.com/index.php?p=1_5
Hazard Cat	All genres - cat-themed	$0.0050		http://hazardcat.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Haunted (Pill Hill Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Themed to “located in a haunted environment”	$0.0000	$0.00	http://www.pillhillpress.com/haunted.html
Tales from the Velvet Chamber ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 08/2010	Stories that revise the bad-girl image in myth, fairytale etc.		$50.00	http://talesfromthevelvetchamber.blogspot.com/p/mission-statement.html
Nil Desperandum	All genres - must speak to "the human condition"		$50.00	http://ndstories.com/?page_id=17
Clonepod	SF/F		$25.00	http://www.clonepod.org/submission-guide-lines/
Strangetastic	Supernatural fiction, especially ghost and folklore stories		$25.00	http://strangetastic.com/submissions/
Call of Lovecraft ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 07/15/2010	Lovecraftian		$20.00	http://site.papercutbooks.com/Announcements.html
Marginal Boundaries	All spec-fic		$20.00	http://www.marginalboundaries.com/submission-guidelines/
Abandoned Towers	All genres - unique		$10.00	http://abandonedtowers.com/
Plutonian Times	All genres, SFF preferred		$5.55	http://www.plutoniantimes.com/call-for-submissions/
Membra Disjecta - DEAD MARKET	All genres, themed		$5.00	http://www.membradisjecta.com/submissions/
Crime and Suspense - DEAD MARKET	MUST have crime or a mystery		$5.00	http://www.crimeandsuspense.com/guidelines.htm
Sam's Dot Drabble PERIODIC CONTEST (Currently Contest 17 – DUE 05/31/2010)	Themed to “When Food Attacks”		$1.00	http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/drabbler/drabbler17.htm
The Sleep Club	All genres—stories to lull people to sleep			http://www.thesleepclub.co.uk/The_Sleep_Club/Bedtime_Stories_Guidelines.html

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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04/18/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 5/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#041810

Editor's Note
Sorry, this newsletter is going out a little late! The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy, what with one thing and another. Sickness, work, other projects, taxes....

Speaking of taxes and getting things done ahead of time, now's a good time to think about whether you want to take the step to claiming writing as a business for tax purposes (or, if you already are, about being better organized for next year!). You don't have to be making a profit to do this, just investing a significant amount of time and trying to get your writing published. A dated writing log that documents what you do for your writing career documents the former, and a submissions tracking spreadsheet will take care of the latter. How can you make claiming it in taxes easier next year? Keep all your receipts (for writing supplies, postage, books, movies, conventions, etc) in a folder, and enter them into a spreadsheet now. Record the date, amount, and what it was for. I like to keep the amounts in different columns depending on where it will be claimed on the tax form: advertising (web hosting), office expenses and postage, books and equipment, travel and lodging, food at events/workshops/etc, other--convention registration fees, and other--movie tickets and DVDs. It makes doing the math a lot easier next tax season, and you won't have to dig out a bunch of faded receipts.

Things Shiny or Useful

* Analyzing a Sherlock Holmes story on the craft level, worth a re-read: http://holmes.spontaneousderivation.com/series/retyping-the-speckled-band/
* How to Target Your Submissions to Agents: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/How+To+Target+Your+Submissions+To+Agents.aspx
* Contests to AVOID: http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/contests-to-avoid/
* How to correctly format an email query letter: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/03/how-to-format-query-letter.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NathanBransford+%28Nathan+Bransford+-+Literary+Agent%29
* Start your stories with action is bad advice: http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2010/03/11/TheBiggestBadAdviceAboutStoryOpenings.aspx
* Structuring your agent pitch: http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2010/03/pitching-to-agents-how-to-throw-fiction.html
* Writing specific queries: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/03/secret-strength-of-killer-queries.html
* Myth-busting--How recent pro authors broke in: http://jimhines.livejournal.com/496760.html and http://jimhines.livejournal.com/497092.html


Featured Market
Crossed Genres is holding the Science in My Fiction contest to counter the claim that science fiction is obsolete and no longer needs science.

Here’s how it works: Authors write a science fiction or fantasy short story which is inspired by a scientific discovery or innovation made or announced within the past year. It can’t be peripherally added: the science must be integral to the story. Writers must include a link to a relevant article or study of the applied science when they submit their stories.

We’ll be looking for thoughtful, creative and well-researched application of science to a story. This doesn’t mean you should neglect your plot or characters, though! The best entries will be those which use science to enhance the plot, setting and characters, rather than dominate them.

The basics: science fiction, 2,500 - 10,000 words, no reprints, submit April 1st - June 30th. 1st prize = $250, 2nd = $100, 3rd = $50.

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Books for Monsters – DEAD MARKET	All genres, as long as fits into action/adventure		$15.00	http://booksformonsters.com/submissions/
Best Horror of the Year Vol. 3 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/15/2010	Horror published in 2010			http://ellen-datlow.livejournal.com/244823.html
Darker	dark speculative fiction		$5.00	http://www.darkeronline.com/
Rock & Roll is Dead ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 07/13/10	Horror inspired by a song	$0.0050		http://bloodboundbooksforum.lefora.com/2010/01/17/attention-artists/
Clockwork Chaos: A Steampunk ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 06/14/10	Steampunk	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/04/05/clockwork-chaos-a-steampunk-anthology-submissions-/
Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, The	bizarro, dark	$0.0100		http://bizarrocentral.com/magazine.html
Twitter-Fiction Contest for Haiti, A ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 04/30/10	Twitter fiction		$50.00	http://nanoism.net/meta/nanoism-contest-for-haiti/
Groanology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Humorous horror with 2 monsters	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/03/30/groanology-a-horror-comedy-antho-submissions-open/
Times of Trouble ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 07/04/10	Themed to the dark side of time travel	$0.0100		http://www.permutedpress.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56%3Atimes-of-trouble-submission-guidelines&catid=38&Itemid=67
Smash Cake Magazine	Any genre		$2.00	http://www.smashcakemagazine.com/submission-guidelines/
GigaNotoSaurus	Science fiction and fantasy, especially long		$100.00	http://giganotosaurus.org/submission-guidelines/
Fright Field – DEAD MARKET	Horror, widely defined	$0.0020		http://www.frightfield.com/Submissions.html
Bizarro Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE UNTIL FILLED	Bizarro horror	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/02/06/bizzaro-horror-anthology-submissions-now-open/
Arct Magazine	SF/F		$5.00	http://arct-mag.com/submissions/
My Best Fiction ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 05/10/2010	Any genre, at least 20 “BookRix pages” long		$1,000.00	http://www.bookrix.com/precontest.html?show=BX_1268319265&sub=0
Science in My Fiction ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 06/30/10	SF story inspired by specific science discovery in the last year		$250.00	http://crossedgenres.com/simf/contest/
Dead Bait 2 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 07/01/2010	Themed to fishing and aquatic creatures—horror, humor, or deviant writing	$0.0100		http://severedpress.lefora.com/2010/03/23/dead-bait-2-open-for-sumissions/
Singularity	F/SF/H		$29.80	http://www.singularitymagazine.co.uk/
Probing Uranus ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 04/23/10	Humorous SF	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/02/10/probing-uranus-an-antholy-of-humorous-science-fict/
Pseudopod Flash Fiction ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 05/01/10 – 05/31/10	Horror		$20.00	http://krylyr.livejournal.com/231435.html
Escape Pod Flash Fiction ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 06/01/10 – 06/30/10	Science Fiction		$20.00	http://krylyr.livejournal.com/231435.html
Podcastle Flash Fiction ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 04/01/10 – 04/30/10	Fantasy		$20.00	http://krylyr.livejournal.com/231435.html

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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03/15/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 04/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#031510

Editor's Note
Sometimes the process of getting a story from an idea to a submission feels overwhelming. Weeks to write it. Days to get it critiqued and edited. Hours finding a good market for it, formatting it according to their submission guidelines, and sending it in.

Why not shrink that process down a little? Give yourself a break. Rev up your imagination, find a great idea that can fit in a nutshell, and write a tiny story. Twitfic, or Twitter fiction, is made of complete stories that fit within Twitter's 140-characters-or-less limitation. It's a good exercise in finding just the right words and editing a story down--way down. It'll loosen up your imagination. And it pays a professional rate per word, although that's only because there are so few words.

In the Featured Market section below, I've listed all the active, paying, spec-fic-friendly Twitfic publications that I'm aware of.

As a writing exercise for myself, I've started always keeping a twitfic submission in play. As soon as I hear back about it, I send in an another one. The writing and editing doesn't take much time, and it's fun.

I've had decent success at it, too. Here are two twitfic stories of mine that Thaumatrope has published in the last month, both science fiction with a dash of humor.  They're tiny tweets of stories, and free to read. If you like them, share the link.

http://twitter.com/thaumatrope/status/9347673982

http://twitter.com/thaumatrope/status/10535596412

Things Shiny or Useful

* Michael Moorcock's rules for writing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/22/michael-moorcock-rules-for-writers
* (This is going in my writing challenges file.) The Lester Dent pulp plot outline: http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/dent.html
* Palahniuk's tips for writers: http://chuckpalahniuk.net/features/essays/chuck-palahniuk
* An exercise for writing a query letter with voice: http://elanajohnson.blogspot.com/2010/02/writing-query-letter-with-voice.html
* The Starter Guide to Twitter: http://tribalwriter.com/2010/02/22/a-writers-starter-guide-to-twitter-or-everything-i-wish-someone-had-told-me-when-i-first-started-using-twitter/
* Approaches to making a living as a writer: http://chrisguillebeau.com/3x5/files/2010/02/Guillebeau_WD.pdf
* Know that "every scene should do at least two things" adage? Here are some of those things: http://writersdigest.com/article/showing-and-telling-excerpt
* On Writing Rules: http://ann-leckie.livejournal.com/144298.html
* Read for the editorial inspired by Terry Pratchett: http://www.writing-world.com/newsletter/2010/WW10-04.shtml
* 10 Synopsis Dos and Donts: http://writersdigest.com/article/10-synopsis-dos-and-donts
* Making your story good: http://writersdigest.com/article/21_Tips_to_Get_Out_of_the_Slush_Pile
* Funny: http://storyfix.com/a-slightly-off-color-joke-for-anyone-who-has-published-a-book-or-wants-to

Featured Markets
Thaumatrope: Science fiction, fantasy, or horror. Pays $1.20.
Nanoism: All genres, esp. science fiction and fantasy. Reprints okay. Pays $1.50
Outshine: Optimistic, near-future SF prose poems. Pays $5
Tweet the Meat: Horror/weird. No reprints. Pays $1

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Best New Vampire Tales ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 04/30/10	Themed to vampires, reprints only	$0.0100		http://booksofthedead.blogspot.com/2010/03/best-new-vampire-tales-vol-1.html
Fear of the Dark ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/01/10	Themed to fear of the dark, unknown, nightmares	$0.0090		http://www.horrorbound.com/news.php?readmore=98
No More Heroes ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	SF - themed to shared world	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/03/08/no-more-heroes-a-super-powered-antho-submissions-o/
Short Sharp Shock	All genres - popular fiction		$19.64	http://s3digest.blogspot.com/
Moonlight Tuber	All genres - absurdist, experimental, surreal		$45.88	http://moonlighttuber.wordpress.com/
Doorways Magazine - DEAD MARKET?	ALL	$0.0500		http://www.ralan.com/antho/listings/eclipse2.htm
Mountain Magic ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/20/10 - 06/21/10	Appalachian-themed "rural" fantasy and quiet horror	$0.0500		http://www.brianjhatcher.com/mmguidelines.htm
Dreams of Decadence	urban fantasy and paranormal romance	$0.0100		http://www.dreamsofdecadencemag.com/
Dark Valentine	All genres as long as the story is dark		$10.00	http://darkvalentine.net/index.php/submission-guidelines/
Flash Me Magazine	all genres		$25.00	http://www.wingedhalo.com/guidelines.html
Tower of Light Fantasy Magazine	All fantasy and blended fantasy genres		$5.00	http://tolfantasy.bookazon.co.uk/submissions.htm
Willows - DEAD MARKET	Turn-of-the-century Weird Tales type stories		$25.00	http://thewillowsmagazine.com/guidelines.htm
The Strand Magazine	mystery, terror, and the supernatural		$25.00	http://www.strandmag.com/htm/strandmag_guidelines.htm
Twelfth Planet Novelette Doubles	Spec-fic		$90.97	http://twelfthplanetpress.wordpress.com/submissions/
Dark Fiction Spotlight, The	dark fiction		$0.00	http://tdfspublication.webs.com/submissionguidelines.htm
Aoife's Kiss	F/SF/H	$0.0025		http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/aoife/AKguidelines.htm
Twelfth Planet Novella Series	Spec-fic		$180.00	http://twelfthplanetpress.wordpress.com/submissions/
Redstone Science Fiction	SF	$0.0500		http://redstonesciencefiction.com/guidelines/
Basement Stories	All genres - prefers SF/F	$0.0100		http://www.basementstories.org/submissions.html
This Mutant Life	Superhero fiction & non-fiction		$4.47	http://www.thismutantlife.com/submissions.htm
Seasons in the Abyss ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 04/28/10	Flash horror themed to the seasons	$0.0000	$0.00	http://bloodboundbooksforum.lefora.com/2010/01/06/seasons-in-the-abyss/
TheDF_Underground	Dark and disturbed, edgy, cross-genre, and horror		$10.00	http://www.df-underground.com/submissions-underground_subm/

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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02/15/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 03/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#021510

Editor's Note
Writing process logjams. We all have them (at least I hope I'm not the only one!).  I'm not talking about procrastination or writer's block; I'm talking about things blocking the process of doing all the things that go into having a writing career. Writing.  Story research.  Getting critiques--and usually doing critiques in order to get your story critiqued. Editing. Doing market research (hopefully this market list helps). Submitting. Keeping track of everything: submissions, income, expenses, publication dates. Craft improvement. Publicity. If you're working on a novel, add agent research, synopsis, chapter summaries, query letter, and submitting to agents.

In a perfect world, this would be a wonderful smooth flow and everything would get done in a timely fashion. Naturally, at the same time you'd be producing thousands and thousands of new words daily.

It's not like that for me.  I have three logjams.

1.  Writing (side project) even while editing a novel (main project) is something I'm working on. 

2. For a long time, I had a huge problem with not submitting stories.  I just always had something else to do.  I got around that by setting Sundays aside as submission days. Though I still have a submissions backlog, I have a fair number of stories out being considered, and several have even been accepted! 

3. I tend to collect critiques and then take forever to get around to marking up and making editing changes to stories.  I only realized how very bad this got a couple of days ago, when I finally made some small editing changes to "The Unkindness of Ravens," which I consider to be one of the best stories I've written. Do you know how long it had been sitting in a drawer waiting for those changes to be made? Over a year. That's time that one of my best stories was lying fallow, and that's unacceptable. It took only 20 minutes to make those changes.

Figure out where your logjams are. Be aware of them. Track all your manuscripts and where they're at in the process (I use a spreadsheet and some simple color-coded statuses).  And if anything important gets hooked up on a logjam, try to dislodge it in a reasonable amount of time!

As a closing note, this month my steampunk twitfic went up at Thaumatrope! http://twitter.com/thaumatrope/statuses/8159537369 It's a tiny tweet of a story, and free to read.

Things Shiny or Useful

* Publisher-Author Outreach as it could be: http://christinakatz.com/publishers-seven-types-of-outreach-to-cement-the-publisher-author-bond-boost-the-sales-of-every-single-book/
* Donald Maas' _The Career Novelist_ available as free PDF download: http://www.maassagency.com/books.html#career
* Write with awareness and honesty: http://ann-leckie.livejournal.com/143513.html#cutid1
* The Novelist Survival Kit, for use while waiting for publication/acceptance: http://jenniferechols.livejournal.com/120823.html
* When somebody on the internet is Wrong: http://jimhines.livejournal.com/490688.html
* Nathan Bransford's query letter workshop forum: http://forums.nathanbransford.com/viewforum.php?f=12
* Flow: http://blog.writersdigest.com/mfaconfidential/On+Words+Flowing+And+Why+Its+Worth+It.aspx
* The Much Maligned Adverb: http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2009/10/20/TheMuchMalignedAdverb.aspx
* You May Be a Bestseller on Tralfamadore: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/01/guest-blog-week-you-may-be-bestseller.html
* Using characters to cut word length in revision: http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-characters-and-scenes-to-trim-fat.html
* An excellent revision checklist: http://betweenfactandfiction.blogspot.com/2009/03/revision-reference.html?spref=tw
* How authors can be interviewed on radio: http://thewriteathomemom.blogspot.com/2010/01/december-issue-of-savvy-book-marketer.html
* Breakdown of why an author believes her query letter led to publication: http://www.murdershewrites.com/2009/04/23/queries-and-agents-and-rejects-oh-my/
* Transitions: http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2009/12/28/ask-the-editor-help-with-transitions-and-bridges/

Featured Market
ReadingWriters Contest Cafe has regular themed contests with no entry fee, open to all genres. Their current contest is Once Upon a Day.

Your protagonist is about to have a day. He doesn't know it yet, but it's going to be a day that, for him, will live in infamy. A day she will point to, years later, as the specific moment when something in her soul changed. It can be a teeny tiny change or it can be a ginormous change. But it has to occur in the light of day.

The basics: contest entry due 05/15/2010, no fee, all genres, 0 - 1,000 words, no reprints, $100 for the winner, winning story will be published in The Verb.

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Last Man ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED (before pub date 08/31/2010)	Literary "last man" science fiction		$5.00	http://lastmananthology.weebly.com/submissions.html
Daikaijuzine	All genres, mostly spec-fic		$5.00	http://www.daikaijuzine.com/dkz/?page_id=40
ReadingWriters Contest Cafe - PERIODIC CONTESTS	Themed contests.		$100.00	http://www.readingwriters.com/contestcafe.htm
Once Upon a Day (ReadingWriters) ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 05/15/2010	All genres, themed to a character's dramatic change over the course of a day		$100.00	http://www.readingwriters.com/contest.htm
The Speculative Ramayana ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 06/01/10	Speculative fiction where the Ramayana is used in a key way		$25.00	http://www.zubaanbooks.com/RamayanaAnthology.asp
SFZine.org Podcast - DEAD MARKET	All spec-fic	$0.0100		http://www.sfzine.org/blog1/
Clonepod - DEAD MARKET	SF/F		$25.00	http://www.clonepod.org/submission-guide-lines/
Doomology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE WHEN FILLED	Disasters/Apocalyptic events - no zombies	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/02/02/doomology-the-dawning-of-disasters-submissions-ope/
Horror Library Vol. 4 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Horror	$0.0150		http://cuttingblock.net/submissions.html#hl4
Terminal Earth ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/15/2010	intelligent stories with a backdrop of the end of the world		$5.00	http://poundlitpress.weebly.com/anthology.html
Tower of Light Fantasy Magazine - DEAD MARKET	Fantasy - including science fantasy, dark fantasy etc		$5.00	http://www.tolfantasy.com/
Title Goes Here	All spec-fic except sword&sorcery		$5.00	http://www.title-goes-here.com/Guidelines.html
Extreme Creatures ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 05/01/2010 OR UNTIL FILLED	Creature/mythological creature horror, incl. humans with monstrous qualities	$0.0050		http://cometpress.us/guidelines/extreme-creature-anthology-2010.html
31 Days of Halloween Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 08/01/2010	Horror, Halloween-themed not needed but acceptable		$2.00	http://shadowfirepress.com/guidelines_1_22_genref.html
JoRi Publications ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/01/2010	Fantasy		$25.00	http://site.joripublications.com/Announcements.html
Extreme Zombies ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 07/01/2010	Extreme zombie horror	$0.0050		http://cometpress.us/guidelines/extreme-zombie-anthology-2010.html
Fearology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE WHEN FILLED	Themed to phobias	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/01/26/fearology-a-phobia-anthology-submissions-open/
Flash Fiction Online	All genres, including SF/F/H		$50.00	http://www.flashfictiononline.com/submit.html
Fictitious Force - DEAD MARKET	Spec-fic	$0.0100		http://www.fictitiousforce.com/
Shantytown Anomaly, The - DEAD MARKET	SF/F poetry, articles, and short-shorts		$1.00	http://theshantytownanomaly.blogspot.com/
Full Armor Magazine	Fantasy, slipstream, and mystery with strong Judeo-Christian message or symbolism	$0.0100		http://www.dragondreamzpublications.info/submissions.html
Robot Romance ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 07/01/2010	romance with at least one robotic character		$50.00	http://www.stonymeadowpublishing.com/romance_novella_contest_robot_romance.htm
Like Butterflies in Iron ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 02/19/2010	erotic F themed to urban faeries		$25.00	http://www.circlet.com/?p=716
Nossa Morte	horror/thriller	$0.0100		http://nossamorte.com/guidelines.html
Distant Realms ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/31/2010	novella-length fantasy		$100.00	http://dwdr.wordpress.com/guidelines-for-distant-realms/
Zombology: A queer bent on the undead ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Zombie stories with GLBTQ characters/themes	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2010/01/21/zombology-a-queer-bent-on-the-undead-submissions-o/
Queerpunk ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 02/19/2010	erotic SF themed to GLBTQ in a cyberpunk setting		$25.00	http://www.circlet.com/?p=718
Like That Spark ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 02/19/2010	erotic F/SF themed to first connection		$25.00	http://www.circlet.com/?p=713
Albedo One	Very broad definition - wants boundary-pushing, thoughtful, well-written	$0.0042	$0.00	http://www.albedo1.com/html/writers_guidelines.html
Zombidays ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Holiday-themed zombie stories	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2009/12/22/zombidays-submissions-open/
Arkham Tales	Pulp adventure, weird horror, and fantastic	$0.0100		http://arkhamtales.leucrotapress.com/?page_id=13
Cezanne's Carrot	visionary, magic realism, transformative, spiritual		$10.00	http://www.cezannescarrot.org/guidelines.html

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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01/16/2010 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 02/15/2010.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#011610

Editor's Note
I've always been proud of my ability to get the rough draft written without being afraid of writing crap and without necessarily "feeling inspired." (Inspiration comes with effort, not vice versa.) I only recently realized that I've fallen into another similar trap--the "I can't write under these circumstances" trap. Sure, I get my best writing done in large chunks of time, in relative isolation, with a particular story soundtrack, cats to pet, and a mug of tea. That doesn't mean I can't or shouldn't write under other circumstances if I'm not going to get "ideal" writing time. 100 words written longhand on the bus here, 100 words typed into google docs during downtime there--and I'll end up with a short story.

Writing in two different mediums means that there are bits in between left out that I'll need to write in later, as I type the whole thing up. And writing longhand means when I know how a later scene goes, or how an earlier scene *should* go, I have to put in a little section break with a note about where that bit should go. In short, it's something of a mess, but it's getting a story written.

It's good that I've realized I need to produce more short stories even under difficult circumstances, since I seem to be getting a number of them published recently. My short fantasy science fiction story, "A Phoenix By Any Other Name," is now up at Short-Story.me! It's a quick, free read. This is an older story of mine that I revamped and sent out, and I'm quite pleased it's found a home.

Excerpt:

"I need a creature that none have seen, and it should be wild and impressive to the eye. It must be perfect. I am hosting a party, and I intend it to be an occasion that people will speak of for months. It occurred to me that a live, exotic creature would add a touch of novelty." Lupant looked down his nose at his surroundings, as if doubting such a thing could be found here.

"Certainly, sir," Bruant said. "Let me show you our stock." He gestured to the store window, where two rigid gray lizards balanced upright on the tips of their tails, their eyes closed, their forelegs crossed over their chests. "These tomb-lizards are from the planet Cassial. They are known as tomb-lizards because of the resemblance between their dormant state and gravestones: the gray color, the posture--"

"Do they do anything interesting?"

Bruant blinked. "Every half-hour, they revive, change to their normal color, and run around frantically for about ten minutes."

"In other words, no."

Read more.

Things Shiny or Useful

* On book readings: http://aprilhenry.livejournal.com/663262.html
* Kelly Carmichael's comprehensive and step-by-step guide to writing a synopsis: http://www.kathycarmichael.com/articles-and-seminars/articles-and-workshops/general-fiction-synopsis/general-fiction-synopsis-seminar/
* Computer wallpapers with writerly quotes: http://www.writersdigest.com/bonus-wallpaper
* 20 min technique-heavy video, really worth watching, about marketing on the internet (based on non-fiction book marketing, but applies to fiction or other endeavors). Good enough to be added to my "to do once novel published" file: http://timferriss.posterous.com/tim-ferriss-how-to-create-a-global-phenomenon
* Deepen your scenes: http://gideonsway.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/deepening-your-scenes/
* How to personalize your revision checklist (This motivated me to start my own revision checklist): http://www.dailywritingtips.com/how-to-personalize-your-revision-checklist/
* Encouraging and useful video of 28 authors giving writing advice--set to music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqVEoKu7AZE
* Fully Exploiting a Character's First Scene: http://acrowesnest.blogspot.com/2009/10/marianna-pleased-to-meet-you-fully.html
* How writing is like running (and yes, for me it's this exactly): http://blog.writersdigest.com/mfaconfidential/The+Wind+In+My+Face+The+Play+In+Writing.aspx
* "Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See:" http://www.holtuncensored.com/hu/the-ten-mistakes/
* Avoid using the wrong cliche: http://peadarog.livejournal.com/79367.html
* A humorous guide to avoiding misspellings: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling


Featured Market
Realms of Fantasy is a professional market for all types of fantasy and the "unclassifiable."

Stories should be no longer than 10,000 words, and can address any area in the realms of fantasy: heroic, contemporary, traditional, feminist, dark, light, and the ever-popular “unclassifiable.” What we do not want to see is standard SF (this means no alien worlds, no hard-edged technology, no FTL drives, etc.)  Additionally, ROF is not a market for poetry.  What we do want to see is the very best in the field—Realms of Fantasy is a highly competitive market.

The basics: Fantasy and unclassifiable, 0 - 10,000 words, pay begins at $.06/word (less for > 7,500 words, more for professional writers), accepts snail mail submissions only.

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Zombidays ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Holiday-themed zombie stories	$0.0100		http://libraryofthelivingdead.lefora.com/2009/12/22/zombidays-submissions-open/
Arkham Tales	Pulp adventure, weird horror, and fantastic	$0.0100		http://arkhamtales.leucrotapress.com/?page_id=13
Cezanne's Carrot	visionary, magic realism, transformative, spiritual		$10.00	http://www.cezannescarrot.org/guidelines.html
Clarkesworld Magazine	likes language	$0.1000		http://www.clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions.html
Realms of Fantasy	Fantasy and unclassifiable	$0.0600		http://www.rofmag.com/contact-us/
Best New Zombie Tales ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 01/31/2010	Zombie story reprints	$0.0100		http://booksofthedead.blogspot.com/2009/12/first-book-best-new-zombie-tales-vol-1.html
Escape Pod	spec-fic		$100.00	http://escapepod.org/guidelines/
TiconderogaOnline - DEAD MARKET	SF/F/H – esp. stylistic/gonzo		$32.53	http://ticonderogaonline.com/guidelines.php
Electric Dragon Short Story CONTEST - QUARTERLY - DEAD MARKET	Themed.		$25.00	http://www.electricdragoncafe.com/
Black Ink Horror	Horror		$20.00	http://www.blackinkhorror.com/submissions.html
Marginal Boundaries	All spec-fic		$10.00	http://www.marginalboundaries.com/submission-guidelines/
Greek Myths Revisited ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/30/2010	Greek myths remixed into H/SF/F		$40.00	http://www.sonar4publications.com/gmr.html
Twisted Fairy Tales V2 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2010	Fairytales rewritten into H/SF/F		$40.00	http://www.sonar4publications.com/tft2.html
Frightening Fables and Freaky Fairytales ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - CLOSES WHEN FILLS	Fables or fairytales with a horror twist		$5.00	http://house-madam.blogspot.com/2009/12/intorducing-first-look-at-our-next.html
State of Horror: Louisiana ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 04/01/2010	Horror themed to the state		$3.00	http://rymfireebooks.com/submissions.html
State of Horror: New York ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 02/01/2010 - 05/01/2010	Horror themed to the state		$3.00	http://rymfireebooks.com/submissions.html
State of Horror: Texas ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 04/01/2010	Horror themed to the state		$3.00	http://rymfireebooks.com/submissions.html
Steampunk Reloaded: Volume 2 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 02/15/2010	Steampunk--reprints only.	$0.0100		http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/11/27/steampunk-reloaded-volume-2-open-to-reprint-submissions-december-15/
Terminal Earth ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/15/2010	intelligent stories with a backdrop of the end of the world		$5.00	http://poundlitpress.weebly.com/anthology.html
Null Immortalis - Nemonymous Ten ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 04/30/2010	Themed to "null immortalis"--whatever that means to you	$0.0160
Wily Writers	all spec-fic--issues are themed		$50.00	http://www.wilywriters.com/blog/?page_id=1234

Aswiebe's Market List

• Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
• If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.
• To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
• If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!
• Feel free to forward this email on to people you think might find it useful. If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage.
• To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.

Links
Aswiebe's Market List
About Aswiebe's Market List
Abra Staffin Wiebe's main website
Abra Staffin Wiebe's blog

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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12/15/2009 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 01/15/2010. (2010!)
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive.html#121509

Editor's Note
This has been a good month for my stories! I've had a number of stories accepted, and my first pro-level publication was in this month's Baen's Universe. Go here to read "Salvaging Scottwell," my story about an obsolete police dog robot that gets an upgrade with unintended consequences to the Powers That Be.

Excerpt:

Max woke up inside his kennel, unplugged his tail from the wall, and ran an automatic systems check. Recharging his battery had taken a half-hour longer than last month. He connected to the BigDog network so that he could send an error report about the battery. The automated reply told him that his error report had been filed, and a handler would contact him if any further action was required. The last handler contact recorded in Max's memory log was three years old.

He limped to the door of the jailhouse. His right third leg had broken down two years ago. It had taken three weeks for his movement pattern to functionally reform, but he still limped. His speed was a fraction of his original specifications. His right second leg couldn't provide the same motive power. It had been designed for stability, not speed.

He stepped out into Scottwell neighborhood to begin his patrol. His tail wagged once. Scottwell was more than just the neighborhood that he guarded; it was as much a part of him as his paws. When he kept himself and his neighborhood protected and well-maintained, he was a Good Boy.

His tail drooped. He hadn't been a Good Boy for a long time.

Read more.

Less happily, I also learned that a couple of my emails were snagged in people's spam filters. To help prevent this, please add this email to your contacts list and, should one appear in your spam folder, mark it 'not spam.' Thanks!

Things Shiny or Useful

* The role of a sex scene and how to write one: http://storytellersunplugged.com/blog/2009/11/23/love-and-war/
* How to respond to a manuscript critique/editorial letter: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2009/11/how-to-respond-to-manuscript.html
* http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/2008/09/show-dont-tell-exposed.html
* Top Ten Reasons Your Editor Doesn't Love What Your Critique Group Does: http://edittorrent.blogspot.com/2009/11/top-ten-reasons-editor-doesnt-love-what.html
* Performance advice from a poet: http://inktea.com/2009/12/07/performance-advice/
* Ann Leckie on how to "write better": http://ann-leckie.livejournal.com/141905.html
* http://lifehacker.com/5303204/top-10-productivity-basics-explained
* Locus' list of genre convention events, by date: http://www.locusmag.com/Conventions.html
* Dealing with the "Too Many Ideas" Syndrome: http://writersdigest.com/article/too-many-ideas-syndrome/ To this I add, ubiquitous capture allows me to keep the the ideas from overwhelming me, and tagging them gives me a nice sorting system to find them later.
*http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/Agent+Paige+Wheeler+On+Her+10+Pieces+Of+Advice+For+A+Successful+AgentAuthor+Relationship.aspx
* Three things to look out for while revising: http://karenfollowingthewhispers.blogspot.com/2009/11/end-is-really-beginning-by-helen-ginger.html
* Use conflict in your novel query: http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2007/03/give-me-conflict.html
* Pace Charts: http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=1937

Featured Market
Roar of the Crowd Anthology just extended their submission deadline to 01/31/2010. This means they haven't gotten enough submissions of the kind they want, which makes it a great time for you to submit a story to them. They want stories of historically real war games or games of violence, with fantastical elements.

These are the tales of ancient cultures locked in mock battles of deadly intent; of forgotten generations playing violent games in lieu of warfare; of individuals vying to the death for the favors of rulers and lovers. These are the tales of the games where winning is survival – and where the crowd determines all. These are historically real games** from real cultures, but fantastical elements are required! The crowd must be involved: Either the game carries into the crowd or the crowd overwhelms the gamers. The crowd is the key: your story cannot be told the same minus the crowd.

The basics: Fantasy, 5,000 - 15,000 (flexible), pays $.01 - $.03/word.

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
Triangulation: End of the Rainbow ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/31/2010	All spec-fic, themed to "End of the Rainbow"	$0.0200		http://parsecink.org/staticpages/index.php/triangulation_10_guidelines
Flashing Swords - DEAD MARKET	see note	$0.0100		http://flashingswords.sfreader.com/guidelines.htm
Arkham Tales - DEAD MARKET	Weird and fantastic	$0.0100		http://www.arkhamtales.com/writers-artists-guidelines
Roar of the Crowd ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 01/31/2010	Historical war/combat games with fantastical element	$0.0100		http://www.roguebladesentertainment.com/2009/08/roar-of-the-crowd-2010-rbe-anthology/
Descant: Ghosts and the Uncanny Themed Issue ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/01/2010	Literary - paranormal and ghost-themed		$100.00	http://www.descant.ca/submit.html
Town Drunk - DEAD MARKET	light-hearted fun spec-fic		$35.00	http://www.thetowndrunk.org/guidelines.aspx
Atomjack - DEAD MARKET	Science Fiction and Science Fantasy and Spec-fic		$10.00	http://www.atomjackmagazine.com/guidelines.htm
Port Iris	SF/F/H/Spec-fic		$10.00	http://www.portiris.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=3
Little Death of Crossed Genres, The	Erotic SF/F		$5.00	http://make-believable.com/submissions/
Ghostlight Magazine	Horror, dark sci-fi, dark fantasy, or dark humor, preferably with Michigan or Great Lakes connection		$5.00	http://www.greatlakeshorror.com/ghostlightmagazine.html
Flash Scribe - DEAD MARKET	All genres except erotica		$1.00	http://flashscribe.net/?page_id=3
Year of the Bear – DEAD MARKET	apocalyptic/dystopian fiction and origin myths	$0.0028		http://yearofthebear.com/submit.html
Steampunk Tales	Steampunk			http://www.steampunktales.com/submissions.html
Nature Futures	Hard SF	$0.0500		http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/others.html#futures
Timelines ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 12/31/2009	Stories inspired by HG Wells' The Time Machine	$0.0100		http://northernfrightspublishing.webs.com/guidelines.htm
Abyss Walker ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 03/19/2010	Dark fantasy, horror, or cross-genre set in the Abyss Walker universe	$0.0100		http://stygianpublications.blogspot.com/2009/11/abyss-walker-anthology-from-stygian.html
Night Terrors ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 03/13/2010	Horror	$0.0500	$5.00	http://www.bloodboundbooks.net/submissions.html
Shadows & Light Vol II ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2010	Fantasy told from the perspective of the hero or the villain	$0.0100		http://www.pillhillpress.com/shad--light-vol-ii.html
Flesh and Bone: Rise of the Necromancers ONE-TIME CONTEST – DUE 07/31/2010	Dark fantasy about necromancers and the undead rising		$125.00	http://www.pillhillpress.com/flesh--bone-rise-of-the-necromancers.html
Zero Gravity: Adventures in Deep Space ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 06/30/2010	Intergalactic SF		$25.00	http://www.pillhillpress.com/zero-gravity.html
Silver Moon, Bloody Bullets ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 05/15/2010	Werewolf-themed, with strong elements of horror		$10.00	http://www.pillhillpress.com/silver-moon.html
While the Morning Stars Sing ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 01/31/2010	Spiritually infused speculative fiction		$5.00	http://www.resaliens.com/a-call-for-submissions/
Unspeakable: A New Breed of Terror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 05/01/2010	Creature-based horror stories		$5.00	http://www.bloodboundbooks.net/submissions.html
D.O.A. ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 08/01/2010	Extreme horror		$5.00	http://www.bloodboundbooks.net/submissions.html
Music for Another World ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 04/30/2010	Intellectually exciting F/SF themed to music		$132.00	http://www.music-strange-fiction-submissions.info/2009/10/what-im-looking-for.html
Lightspeed Magazine	Science Fiction	$0.0500		http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/

Aswiebe's Market List
Aswiebe's Market List is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example, only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet. If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it. If you get a story published in a market on this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!

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Abra Staffin Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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11/15/2009 Market List Update

http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 12/15/2009.

Editor's Note
You may recall back in August, right after I had knee surgery, I talked about choosing an anthology and writing a story to submit to it. I was in a fair amount of pain and heavily drugged, and I could only write tiny amounts at a time. My point was that even when you can only do a little bit, it's worth doing instead of giving up. Well, they accepted it! "Missing You in Pieces" will be published in the upcoming Dead Bells anthology.

This month I've been thinking a lot about motivation and production goals when writing. I read an article about setting achievable goals that resonated. Writing is one of those things that there's always more of, and it's easy to feel like the only way to get a break from it is to procrastinate. The article makes the excellent point that instead of a to-do list, perhaps what we need is a done-after list: a set of easily achievable goals after which we are guilt-free done for the day. Step one is figuring out what achievable goals actually are--how long certain tasks take. I've been trying it out. Counter-intuitively, by trying to do less, I'm getting more done. As in all things, YMMV.

Things Shiny or Useful

* Tips on reading your writing aloud: http://www.sfwa.org/2009/08/reading-aloud/
* 20 tips on query letters: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,d2d3d106-8d27-4698-aa25-3df73e67f73e.aspx
* A detailed approach to self-editing, plus, um, scarf stuff! http://naturalartificial.blogspot.com/2009/10/scarf-weather-answers-part-eleven.html
* Write characters, not Mary Sues: http://bethanyharvey.com/blog/posts/2007/07/write-characters-not-mary-sues/
* On Outlines, Peskiness of: http://ilona-andrews.livejournal.com/384315.html
* Turn Your Book Into An IPhone App: http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2009/10/23/TurnYourBookIntoAnIPhoneApp.aspx
* Step-by-step guide to self-editing plot: http://www.writersdigest.com/upload/images/PDF/Revising%20Plot.pdf
* Common themes in a prompt-based short story contest (I always find these fascinating--it's good to know the common paths writers' minds take, so I can make my stories more unique): http://writersweekly.com/the_latest_from_angelahoycom/005676_10282009.html
* What to do if your story is used without permission: http://writersweekly.com/ask_the_expert/005679_10282009.html

Featured Market
Beneath Ceaseless Skies wants character-focused literary adventure fantasy set in other worlds.

We want stories set in what Tolkien called a "secondary world": some other world that is different from our own primary world in some way. It could be different in terms of zoology (non-human creatures), ecology (climate), or physical laws (the presence of magic). It could be set on Earth but an Earth different from our primary world in terms of time (the historical past) or history (alternate history). It could have a "pre-tech" level of technology, or steampunk technology, or magic as technology, or anything else that's not advanced or modern technology. However, the setting should contain some element that is in some way fantastical.

The inhabitants of this secondary world should have developed their own culture in response to the uniqueness of their world. The characters should fit this culture, and the qualities of the secondary world should have some bearing on the plot.

...We prefer styles that are literary but readable. We love gorgeous, poetic prose, but in genre fiction it's vital that the style be clear enough so the reader can understand what's happening. Our favorite prose styles are lush but still clear.

...We prefer stories that are as original as possible, particularly in the setting. We are unlikely to enjoy stories featuring elements we have seen repeatedly, such as elves or barbarian swordsmen or an opening scene in a fantasy tavern, unless they present that element in a unique new way.

The basics: Fantasy, prefers less than 10,000 words, no reprints, pays $.05/word.

Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.

Name	What they want	Pay Per Word – Fiction	Flat Pay – Fiction (Lowest)	Website
HorrorWired ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 12/15/2009	Horror	$0.0500		http://www.deliriumbooks.com/site_news/delirium-opens-to-submissions/
Bull Spec	F/SF	$0.0500		http://bullspec.blogspot.com/2009/11/welcome-to-bull-spec.html
Short-Story.me!	F/H/SF and mystery	$0.0100		http://www.short-story.me/submission-guidelines.html
Golden Visions	Science fiction, fantasy, spec-fic, mild horror	$0.0025		http://goldenvisionsmagazine.homestead.com/NewGuideLines.html
Mercury Retrograde Press – Hermes Imprint	SF/F and interstitial novellas	$0.0000	$0.00	http://www.mercuryretrogradepress.com/submissions.asp
Day Terrors ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 01/01/2010 UNTIL FILLED	Horror in broad daylight		$10.00	http://theharrowpress.com/2009/10/call-for-stories-day-terrors/
Aether Age ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY – DUE 11/15/2009 – 01/30/2010	Shared world SF