Aswiebe's Market List Update 2009-02

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

The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 03/15/2009.

Editor's Note
Deadlines. Love 'em? Hate 'em? Pretend they don't exist and hope they go away? I usually fall into the last category, or at least I used to. Then I realized that when I picked a particular anthology to aim a story at, the story got written faster (so that I could get it in by the deadline), and the quality of my writing didn't suffer. So I'm experimenting in self-determined deadlines. I'm attending a number of conventions this summer, and I've set myself the goal of finishing the edits on my steampunk novel, Vicesteed, by that time. That's no small challenge. I hope that having a deadline will help me to get it finished. It might also just drive me crazy. Stay tuned, and find out which!

In other news, Allegory is now selling $2 PDFs of their past issues. This includes my eco-horror story, "Blood for Oil," in Volume 1/28.

Darren woke up disoriented. He wasn't in his bed. He was huddled in a blanket in the corner of his bedroom. His skin felt clammy. A nasty stench filled the room, an unholy mixture of sandalwood, a chemical reek that he almost recognized, and human sweat. He wrestled his way free of the blanket, stood, and gasped in shock at the sight the morning sunlight revealed. He might have insulted Serena by hustling her out the door after her shower, but he was very glad she'd gone.

A pool of black slime covered the bed. Footprints led from the bed to the shower. Everywhere he looked, he saw black marks.

Suddenly, a change of scenery sounded like a very good idea.
Read more by buying the Allegory issue.

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 you found through this list, let me know and I'll add a note to the next newsletter!

Things Shiny or Useful
* A detailed guide to AP style: http://www.usu.edu/journalism/faculty/sweeney/resources/ap.htm
* Superpowers, psychotic persistence, and success in writing: http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1714876.html
* "Don't Wake Up The Programmer," an analogy to programming as dreaming, which also works well for writing: http://alexthunder.livejournal.com/309815.html

Featured Market
Brain Harvest Magazine (http://www.brainharvestmag.com/submit/) wants the weirdest, newest fruits of your brain-meats.

Lofty guidelines

We are those jaded motherfuckers who’ve seen everything. We worry about fiction. Where are the new ideas? Where’s the weird shit? What’s the future going to look like, and why will it matter? Please, surprise us. Shock us out of our ennui, and, like the iconic hooker with a heart of gold, or the free spirit w/terminal illness, help make our lives worth living again.

ADD guidelines

750 or fewer words. Weird. Surprising. Preferably no elves.

Concrete guidelines

Brain Harvest is looking for short fiction, 100 - 750 words. We want well-crafted, interesting stories that do not fall back on old, well-worn tropes—unless they have an interesting, bad-ass take on an old, well-worn trope.

We are a speculative fiction magazine, and while your submission should have speculative aspects we’re not looking for any particular genre — substance and execution are more important than subject matter. We are not particularly keen on elves or steampunk, but if you have something different to say that requires elves or steampunk, feel free to send it along.

Submission basics: All speculative fiction, 100-750 words. Pays $.05/wd. Reprints accepted, but paid at a lower rate.


Market List Updates
To see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, go to Aswiebe's Market List, download the latest version of the spreadsheet, sort by date listing updated, and look at the entries changed since 01/16/2008.

New

Asimov's (http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.shtml) - I can't believe I didn't have Asimov's listed before. I guess whenever I saw it, it was such a familiar name that I just assumed I'd included it. Thanks to Jordan Hartnett for pointing that out.

Brain Harvest (http://www.brainharvestmag.com/submit/)

Odyssey (http://www.cobblestonepub.com/guides_ody.html)

Outshine (http://shineanthology.wordpress.com/outshine-submission-guidelines/)

Return of the Raven (temp title) ANTHOLOGY - DUE 03/31/2009 (http://www.horrorbound.com/readarticle.php?article_id=21)

Ruthless Peoples Magazine (RPM) (http://www.ruthlesspeoples.com/node/11)

Changed

Farrago's Waistcoat (http://www.farragoswainscot.com/submissions.html)

Silver Blade (http://www.silverblade.net/About3.html)

Dead

Astounding Tales

Book of Dark Wisdom - mysterious restructuring attempts, but no recent information.

Southern Fried Weirdness

Susurrus

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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