Aswiebe's Market List 2015-02: Women in Practical Armor

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The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 3/15/2015.
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Editor's Note

There's something quite marvelous about playing around with writing-related stuff instead of driving myself to X, Y, and Z done by such-and-such a date. Taking a month off to catch up on the stacks of "to-edit" manuscripts and assorted other writing miscellanea is pretty wonderful. Give it a try the next time you finish a major project!

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

This Thursday, February 19th, I've got a special feature coming up on Mary Robinette Kowal's My Favorite Bit blog! I'll talk about one of my favorite parts of A Circus of Brass and Bone and all the neat background stuff that went into it.


​http://www.amazon.com/Circus-Brass-Bone-Abra-SW/dp/0986377503

Things Shiny or Useful
Archive of all shiny or useful links: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/shiny.html
* How to Tell If You Are in a High Fantasy Novel [humor, plotting]: http://the-toast.net/2015/01/23/tell-high-fantasy-novel/#GFEC0HpeugKErH8o.99

Featured Market

Women in Practical Armor is an anthology that celebrates the empowered woman in the fantasy universe.

It’s true that the kind of female warrior who would be on the front lines in practical armor, without hiding or apologizing for her gender, has little historical precedent in the medieval societies on which much fantasy is based, but fantasy doesn’t need to have its basis in real world European history.

Evil Girlfriend Media is committed to breaking stereotypes and pushing the boundaries of speculative fiction. We encourage you to use this opportunity to do just that. Your secondary world can be based on some other culture or created out of whole cloth. It can be your proprietary universe in which you have set other works. We ask only that the protagonist be a female character who is already empowered. There are plenty of works out there about women who are struggling for acceptance or to build their self-identity. In this anthology, we would like to focus on the kinds of challenges that empowered, powerful, seasoned warriors would face.

The basics: themed fantasy, 2,000 - 5,000 words, pays $.06/word. Guidelines at http://www.evilgirlfriendmedia.com/submissions/.

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
Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF)	F & SF	$0.0700		http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm
Women in Practical Armor (Evil Girlfriend Media) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1/2015	Fantasy themed to empowered female warriors	$0.0600		http://www.evilgirlfriendmedia.com/submissions/
Urban Fantasy Magazine	Urban fantasy	$0.0600		http://urbanfantasymagazine.com/submission-guidelines/
Grimdark Magazine	Grim, dark SF or medieval F	$0.0540		http://grimdarkmagazine.com/pages/submission-guidelines-for-grimdark-magazine/
Playground of Lost Toys, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2015	Spec-fic, themed to childhood toys (90% Canadian authors)	$0.0500		https://colleenanderson.wordpress.com/2015/01/31/writing-the-playground-of-lost-toys/
Swords v. Cthulhu (Stoneskin Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2015	Historical/fantastical Lovecraftian with action	$0.0500		http://www.stoneskinpress.com/index.php/announcing-swords-v-cthulhu/
Spectral Book of Horror Stories v. 2, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2015	Horror	$0.0307		https://spectralpress.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/the-spectral-book-of-horror-stories-vol-2-submissions-open/
Shoreline of Infinity	SF	$0.0150		http://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/submissions/
Paranormal Horror Anthology (Cedar Loft Productions) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED	Paranormal horror	$0.0125		http://www.cedarloftproductions.com/submission-guidelines/
Love Hurts (Meerkat Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2015	Love-themed speculative fiction, SF, and fantasy.	$0.0100		http://meerkatpress.com/submissions/
Gothic Tales of Terror (Verto Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/25/2015	Gothic horror	$0.0050		http://www.vertopublishing.com/calls-for-submissions.html
Lazy Fascist Review	All genres, literary weird		$50.00	http://lazyfascistpress.com/lazy-fascist-review/
Crossroads in the Dark (Burning Willow Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/17/2015	Horror, themed to moral decisions		$50.00	https://burningwillowpress.wordpress.com/announcement-an-anthology/
Middle Planet	All genres, especially SF/F		$30.00	http://middle-planet.com/submit
Spawn of the Ripper (April Moon Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2015	Classic Hammer-esque horror.		$15.70	http://www.aprilmoonbooks.com/#!spawn-submission-guide/cq5x
Battery Pack II (Neon Magazine) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/15/2015	All genres, literary		$3.80	http://neonmagazine.co.uk/?page_id=3492
Unbuild Walls	Literary spec-fic		$1.00	http://unbuildwallsjournal.com/submit/
Shock Totem - DEAD MARKET	Dark fantasy/horror	$0.0500		http://www.shocktotem.com/guidelines/
Shadows & Tall Trees - DEAD MARKET	Quiet, literary horror	$0.0100		http://www.undertowbooks.com/submissions/

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Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!

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