Aswiebe's Market List 2014-11: Anticipation

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The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 12/15/2014.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2014.html#121514

Editor's Note

Anticipation is a powerful thing. We try to inspire it in our readers. We want them to be excited to learn how everything turns out. We want them to look forward to the next installment in a series. We use anticipation to drag ourselves through the parts of writing that feel like a grind. We use it to get ourselves to edit a story so that we can send it to that one publication that we're sure it's perfect for. We hold on to anticipation when our story goes through the long publishing process.

In the next couple of months, I'm wrapping up a long-standing project. Next year, I get to start a !!new!! book-length project. I have a lot of different ideas that I could be working on, but in the end (well, as of right now) I went with what made me feel the most anticipation. I was talking over different ideas with a few friends, and one of them pointed out that I was speaking in a normal voice and using words like "should" to talk about Project 1, but when I talked about Project 2, I used words like "enjoy" and started talking faster and waving my hands about.

Go for what you anticipate enjoying!

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

I performed part of The Circus of Brass and Bone in a local author showcase. Video coming soon! Aside from that, I've gotten cracking on finishing the serialization. I'll be done with it soon, and print and ebook editions should be available for purchase by Christmas.

- Abra Staffin-Wiebe

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Featured Market

Vitality wants exciting fiction of all genres that features a queer protagonist.

Vitality is a literary magazine publishing exciting, entertaining fiction featuring queer protagonists. What we hear people asking for, most often, is more stories featuring queer people – and not just serious, often depressing “issue” work dealing with the hard stresses of real life, but fun stories that happen to be about queer characters, and portray queerness in a positive way.

In answer to this need, Vitality seeks to be an escape for the reader. A safe place full of wonder and awesome where the reader can see characters like themselves doing things like battling dragons, solving crimes, acting in a circus, or travelling the world. All genres and styles can be found in Vitality. The only limit is your imagination.

The basics: all genres, under 5,000 words, no reprints, pays $.05/word. Guidelines at http://readvitality.com/subguidelines.

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
Diabolical Plots	All spec-fic	$0.0600		http://www.diabolicalplots.com/?page_id=12423
Hidden Youth (Crossed Genre) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2015	Historical spec-fic with a young protagonist	$0.0600		http://longhidden.com/hidden-youth-submissions/
Conspiracy Hour (Geminid Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Themed: conspiracies	$0.0500		http://geminidpress.com/send_us_your_short_stories/conspiracy_hour
Take Me To Your Leader (Geminid Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Themed SF: first contact	$0.0500		http://geminidpress.com/send_us_your_short_stories/take_me_to_your_leader/
Space Opera Anthology (title pending) (Geminid Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Space opera SF	$0.0500		http://geminidpress.com/send_us_your_short_stories/space_opera_anthology/
Vitality	All genres, queer protagonist.	$0.0500		http://readvitality.com/subguidelines
Vestal Review	Flash fiction - no hard SF	$0.0300		http://www.vestalreview.org/
Whispers From the Abyss Vol 2 (01 Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/30/2015	Lovecraftian	$0.0100		http://01publishing.com/submissions/open-call-whispers-from-the-abyss-vol-2/
Glittership Podcast	All spec-fic, queer protagonist, prefers reprints	$0.0100		http://www.keffy.com/glittership-openish-for-submissions/
In the Trenches ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/31/2015	All spec-fic, themed to the effects of war.	$0.0050		http://lavitapublishing.weebly.com/anthology-calls.html
One Story	All genres, literary		$500.00	http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=submit
Unsung Stories	All spec-fic		$39.67	http://www.unsungstories.co.uk/short-fiction
From the Corner of Your Eye (Great Old Ones Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/31/2015	Themed: cryptids		$25.00	http://www.greatoldonespublishing.com/submission-information/anthologies/from-the-corner-of-your-eye-a-cryptids-anthology/
Odd Tree Press	All spec-fic		$20.00	http://oddtreepress.com/submissions/
The Dead (Purple Passion Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/1/2014	Themed: the dead, the afterlife		$15.00	http://purplepassionpress.com/submissions/
Gemini Magazine	All genres		$10.00	http://www.gemini-magazine.com/submitcontact.html
Pithy Pages for Erudite Readers - DEAD MARKET	All genres		$75.00	http://www.pithypages.net/submissions.php
Lore - DEAD MARKET	All spec-fic	$0.0500
Penumbra - DEAD MARKET	Themed issues, all types spec-fic.	$0.0500		http://penumbraezine.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html

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Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists

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