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abracanabra) wrote2015-10-15 09:05 pm
abracanabra) wrote2015-10-15 09:05 pm
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Aswiebe's Market List 2015-10: Apex's Christmas Invasion
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The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 11/15/2015.
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Random Thoughts
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
The Journal of Unlikely Academia's newest issue is all about unlikely academia! Librarians, monsters, teachers, metaphysics, and more. It includes my story, "And Other Definitions of Family," about a xeno-anthropologist who takes a very intimate approach to field research.
Excerpt:
Read more (free!) in The Journal of Unlikely Academia online or sign up for their free newsletter to download the issue as an ebook.
She didn't have a client appointment scheduled, but they all knew she welcomed drop-ins. She checked the peep-cam. Optimal lighting, background soundscape, clothing level, hairstyle, and pheromone spray all depended on the client's species. Her eyebrows lifted involuntarily when she saw the bat-like Bitocktee male at her door.
"You are the female human who rents out her reproductive system?" his translator chirped.
"You are the female human who rents out her reproductive system?" his translator chirped.
Read more (free!) in The Journal of Unlikely Academia online or sign up for their free newsletter to download the issue as an ebook.
Things Shiny or Useful
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The Five Free Tools of Social Media Success for Writers [social media]: http://services4authors.com/
A Map to Get Out of Writer’s Block [motivation]: http://nybookeditors.com/2013/
Featured Market
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A Map to Get Out of Writer’s Block [motivation]: http://nybookeditors.com/2013/
Featured Market
Apex's Christmas Invasion is a flash fiction contest all about, well, Christmas invasions!
That’s right. This year our flash fiction contest is all about Christmas invasions. Whether your invaders are robots, aliens, or sentient Christmas ornaments is completely up to you, but if you want to win, you must write us a story no longer than 250 words that deals with an invasion and Christmas.
The basics: SF/Fantasy/Horror, less than 250 words, winners receive $.06/word. Guidelines at http://www.apexbookcompany.
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 |
| Apex's Annual Flash Fiction Contest - due 10/15 - 11/16 | ONE-TIME theme: Christmas invasion | $0.0600 | http://www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontpage/46103937-apexs-annual-flash-fiction-contest | |
| Stiff Things ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2016 OR UNTIL FILLED | Erotic horror | $0.0300 | http://www.cometpress.us/books/stiffthings/guidelines.html | |
| Division By Zero ANTHOLOGY SERIES | All spec-fic | $0.0100 | http://www.mifiwriters.org/submissions/ | |
| Space and Time Magazine | All spec-fic, especially mixed genre | $0.0100 | http://spaceandtimemagazine.com/wp/submissions/ | |
| Cyclopean | Spec-fic | $0.0100 | http://www.cyclopeanpress.com/#submissions | |
| What Dwells Below ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2016 | Horror themed to sewers | $25.00 | http://www.sirenscallpublications.com/open_subs.htm | |
| There Will Be War ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY DUE UNTIL FILLED | Hard SF, adventure, and space opera themed to war | $100.00 | http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/the-evils-of-the-day-accepting-submissions-for-there-will-be-war/ | |
| Book Smugglers Novella Initiative ONE-TIME OPENING - DUE 5/30/2016 | Spec-fic novellas | $100.00 | http://thebooksmugglers.com/2015/09/book-smugglers-publishing-announcing-the-novella-initiative-and-open-call.html | |
| 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story (Arizona State University) ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 1/15/2016 | The future as impacted by climate change | $1,000.00 | https://climateimagination.asu.edu/clificontest/ | |
| Eldritch Press (Online) - DEAD MARKET (no short stories) | All spec-fic | $0.0300 | http://www.eldritchpress.com/submission-guidelines.html | |
| Insatiable (White Cat Publications) - DEAD MARKET | Paranormal romance | $0.0300 | http://www.whitecatpublications.com/?page_id=1995 | |
| West Pigeon Press - DEAD MARKET | All spec-fic | $0.0300 |
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.
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* You can also get market list updates through social media by following my RSS feed, Livejournal, Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ account. But social media sites come and go, so the email newsletter is probably the most reliable method.
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
Feel free to share this newsletter with others by whatever means you like, as long as you include all of it. If you want to subscribe to this email newsletter, go here. To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
* 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!
* 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.
* To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.
* You can also get market list updates through social media by following my RSS feed, Livejournal, Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ account. But social media sites come and go, so the email newsletter is probably the most reliable method.
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
Feel free to share this newsletter with others by whatever means you like, as long as you include all of it. If you want to subscribe to this email newsletter, go here. To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.