Aswiebe's Market List Update 2013-07

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The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 8/15/2013.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2013.html#071513

Editor's Note

Grammar is important for a writer, yes? Yes.

Automatic grammar checkers are generally pretty lousy, right? Right.

So what's a writer to do? Use reference materials! You can go (very) old school with the free edition of Strunk's The Elements of Style available online at http://www.bartleby.com/141/ . A more modern desk reference is also probably a good idea. I'm fond of my A Pocket Manual of Style. For all those finicky little questions like when titles should be capitalized, I like Grammar Girl: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl .

Grammar is on my mind since I just reviewed Grammarly (http://www.grammarly.com/), a grammar-checking program and online webapp. The short version? I have yet to find a grammar checker that will catch all errors without spitting up a ton of false positives. Grammarly might be useful to people just starting to write or people who speak English as a second language, since they do a very good job of explaining the different grammar errors that are possible. The full review is here: http://cloudscudding.livejournal.com/1107148.html .

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What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:

Two SF/F conventions within a month of each other doesn't leave a whole lot of time for anything else! But I've finished writing "Jill Underhill," my short story side project, and I'm busy researching digital encryption and handwriting analysis and medieval monks for my next one. Hopefully, my notes from the panels I attended/participated in will get posted soon, when I have time.

The horror anthology Eulogies II: Tales From the Cellar is now available in print on Amazon.com (ebook versions coming soon). This anthology includes my short story, "The Miracle Material."

When manufacturers think they've found the perfect material, it soon becomes more common than plastic. That's when the troubles start.

Excerpt:

The landfill is safe. I think. Even tupperware frightens me now. The sight of a discarded teddy bear moves me to tears. I wonder if Meredith's teddy bear still lies abandoned on her bed, held under siege by the ever-glowing blue stars that decorate her bedroom.

I tell myself that Meredith is safe and happy. We came from the sea, the scientists said. When there were scientists. What could be more natural than for us to return to the sea? I tell myself that she is safe and happy within the bosom of the sea.

I know I lie.

Wherever Meredith may be, however she feels, she is not my little girl anymore. And it is all my fault.

Read more in Eulogies II.

Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
- Abra Staffin-Wiebe

Things Shiny or Useful
Archive of all shiny or useful links: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/shiny.html
 

* How to Broaden Your Short Story's Scope [plotting]: http://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/how-to-broaden-your-short-storys-scope

* 7 Writing Routines That Work [productivity]: http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents/7-writing-routines-that-work

* How to Have a Career: Advice to Young Writers [writing business]: https://medium.com/editors-picks/793c6eb8256c

* The Story Coaster [humor]: http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2013/07/the-story-coaster.html

* How to Respond to Sexual Harassment at Conventions [publishing industry]: http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/on-sexual-harassment-at-conventions-elise-matheson-speaks-out/

* How to Be Found on the Internet [writing business, social media]: http://carriecuinn.com/2013/06/25/advice-for-writers-how-to-be-found-on-the-internet/

* 7 Secrets to Loving Book Promotion [marketing]: http://mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com/2013/06/7-secrets-to-loving-book-promotion-even.html

Featured Market

Lightspeed Magazine is an already pro-paying science fiction and fantasy publication that recently raised its pay rate again!

All types of science fiction and fantasy are welcome. No subject should be considered off-limits, and we encourage writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.

We believe that the science fiction/fantasy genre’s diversity is its greatest strength, and we wish that viewpoint to be reflected in our story content and our submission queues; we welcome submissions from writers of every race, religion, nationality, gender, and sexual orientation.

The basics: SF/F, 1,500-7,500 words, pays $.08/word, reprints okay.

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
Lightspeed Magazine	Science fiction and fantasy	$0.0800		http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/about/guidelines/
Chiral Mad 2 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE November-ish 2013	Mindbending psychological horror	$0.0500		http://blog.nettirw.com/2013/07/03/chiral-mad-2/
Night of the Living Podcast (NOTLP)'s Flash Horror ONE-TIME Contest 2013 - DUE 7/31/2013	Horror	$0.0500		http://www.notlp.com/blog/index.php/2013/06/16/contest-notlps-flash-horror-contest-2013/
Gigantic Worlds ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/1/13	SF	$0.0500		https://giganticmag.submittable.com/submit/69f649cf-bb4e-433a-9900-9200aaa7c074
Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed (Tor Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2013	Horror and dark fantasy themed to Clive Barker's Midian.	$0.0500		https://www.facebook.com/joseph.nassise/posts/435716269860771
Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Art	All genres, interstitial arts and cross-genre.	$0.0500		https://interfictions.submittable.com/submit
Unlikely Stories (FKA The Journal of Unlikely Entomology)	All genres,three themed issues yearly: 1 bugs, 1 cryptography, 1 something else	$0.0500		http://www.unlikely-story.com/?page_id=62
Phobos Magazine	All spec-fic, plus bizarro, experimental, and adventure tales - themed	$0.0500		http://phobosmagazine.com/submissions/
Of Devils and Deviants (Crowded Quarantine) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/01/13	Erotic horror	$0.0200		http://crowdedquarantine.com/2013/06/23/of-devils-deviants-an-anthology-of-erotic-horror-now-open-for-submissions/
Coffee: 20 Caffeinated Tales of the Fantastic ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL 8/31/2013 OR EARLIER	F/SF/H themed to coffee/tea, reprints only	$0.0100		http://alexshvartsman.com/ufo-unidentified-funny-objects/
Geek Force Five	All genres, spec-fic or geek-themed		$50.00	https://geekforcefive.submittable.com/submit
Eric's Hysterics	All genres, literary humor		$25.00	http://ericshysterics.blogspot.com/p/submissions_05.html
Bloody Parchment ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 6/25 - 10/31	Horror, dark fantasy, and weird		$20.00	http://darkcontinents.com/submissions/
Revolt Daily	Horror, bizarro, experimental, literary		$20.00	https://revoltdaily.submittable.com/submit
A Krampus Anthology [World Weaver] ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/1/2013	Themed: Krampus		$10.00	http://worldweaverpress.com/submissions/calls-for-anthologies/
One Dollar Tales	All spec-fic, mystery, western, and cross-genre		$5.00	http://onedollartales.weebly.com/submission-guidelines.html
eFiction - DEAD MARKET (no longer paying - now royalties only)	Any genre		$20.00	http://efictionmag.submittable.com/submit
Schrodinger's Mouse - DEAD MARKET	SF – hard or philosophical.	$0.0200		http://www.schrodingersmouse.com/author_submissions.html
Lissette's Tales of the Imagination - DEAD MARKET (indefinite hiatus)	Historical fiction with a genre twist		$12.00	http://www.lissettespublishing.com/submissions.html

Aswiebe's Market List

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Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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