Monday 15 December 2008

Space Westerns

In the course of wandering around in the internet, I stumbled across an ezine called Space Westerns. It publishes weekly and pays money.

They are looking for stories, radio plays, artwork, comics, film, poetry and reviews. Have a look at the submission guidelines.

Saturday 13 December 2008

Strange Horizons

Strange Horizons is an online magazine considered a professional market and paying reasonable rates. They publish weekly in bite size pieces.

I'm sure this isn't news to a lot of people, but I just found out about them so I thought I'd mention it.

Friday 5 December 2008

Hub Issue 70

Latest short story fix - Hub #70.

I like Hub - it's delivered weekly as a pdf via email and contains one story (SF, fantasy or horror) and a couple of reviews. It's a tasty snack that can easily be consumed in between the less interesting things that I 'should' be doing.

The story in #70 is Under Offer by Gary McMahon. It's wonderfully macabre and a fine example of showing, not telling. Hop on over and have a disturbing 5-minute read.

Writer's Market Newsletter December

Just read the December issue of the Writer's Market newsletter.

It has an article on writing speculative fiction short stories which is quite interesting.

Thursday 4 December 2008

Wednesday 3 December 2008

Get the first page of a story read and critiqued at the ElectricSpec blog

The kind and generous editors are playing a mini slush pile game. Entries are posted on the blog with comments - and so far, it's been highly constructive advice.

Read ElectricSpec.

Read the ElectricSpec Editors blog.