Submissions

Realms of Fantasy re-opened and ready for your submissions

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Shuttafly by Natassia A. Davis, from her Flickr pageIt’s official:  Realms of Fantasy is back, and expecting a ton of submissions.  I don’t think we should disappoint them.  

Note, Canadian authors: though you still have to submit hardcopy, if you supply your email, they will answer you via email.  They don’t want to work with IRCs and who does?  So, this saves us time too.  

Editorial guidelines from their link:

Editorial Guidelines

Realms of Fantasy, a bimonthly magazine, is a professional market for the best in fantastic short fiction. Stories should be no longer than 10,000 words, and can address any area in the realms of fantasy: heroic, contemporary, traditional, feminist, dark, light, and the ever-popular “unclassifiable.” What we do not want to see is standard SF (this means no alien worlds, no hard-edged technology, no FTL drives, etc.)  Additionally, ROF is not a market for poetry.  What we do want to see is the very best in the field–Realms of Fantasy is a highly competitive market.

For stories under 7,500 words, rates begin at 6 cents per word for new writers and move upward as a writer gains recognition. For stories over 7,500 words, the rates break at 7,500 to 4 cents a word. Thus, a 10,000-word story by a newcomer would pay $550. Again, for established writers, the rates will be proportionally higher.

All submissions must be typed in a 12 pt. serif font such as Courier or Times Roman, double-spaced, and accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope large enough to hold your manuscript.  Manuscripts not typed and double-spaced will not be considered.  Manuscripts without return postage will not be returned.  If you wish us to discard the ms. and reply only by letter, you need only enclose a letter-size (#10) envelope and mark your ms. DISPOSABLE.  Your name, address, email address and phone number should appear on the first page of the text, not on a cover sheet, as cover sheets can easily get separated from the rest of the ms.

International authors must still submit hardcopies of their stories but we will respond via email rather than regular mail, assuming that you do not require your ms. to be returned to you.  We do not accept multiple or simultaneous submissions.  Response time is ordinarily 8 to 12 weeks.  We regret that the majority of our responses must be in the form of pretyped letters.  This in no way reflects on your work, only on our time and work load.

Thank you for your interest in Realms of Fantasy, and we look forward to seeing your work in our pages.

Shawna McCarthy 
Editorial Address: Realms of Fantasy P.O. Box 527 Rumson, NJ 07760

Now, go give them what they want!  Good Yukon Stories, or stories from Yukon authors.  

 


Stories of Intergalactic and Fantastical Hoochies wanted for Anthology

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Looks like the cast of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Looks like the cast of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Yep, you heard it right.  An anthology about the “World’s Oldest Profession” is looking for submissions.  Stories need to have a genre twist to them—science fiction, fantasy, something that makes them a bit different.  The anthology is “Ladies of Trade Town” and the Press is a good one.  

 

For more info, go HERE   According to the Website:

The stories selected for this anthology will build on that varied background to tell well-crafted tales of the women and men – and other sentient beings – who “ply the trade” in a variety of times and settings. I’m looking for original science fiction, fantasy, and related genre short stories that entertain and play to the imagination of the reader. Show me something I haven’t seen, read, or written. (For examples of that last, see “Lady Blaze” in Roby James’ Warrior Wisewoman 2  and the title cut of the filk CD that gives this volume its name.) Humor, characters of all orientations and gender-identities, and new writers all welcome.

Despite the theme, I am *not* looking for porn, erotica, or gore-soaked horror. Absolutely no child abuse, incest, or non-consensual situations. Also not looking for poetry, fanfic or proselytizing either for or against the theme.Vekma

STORY LENGTH:: between 3,000 – 10,000 words. Mostly looking for stories in the 5,000 – 6,000 word range, but I’d like to have a few stories on the upper and lower ends in the mix. The upper limit is firm for unsolicited stories.

PAYMENT: $0.02 a word on acceptance of completed anthology manuscript by the Publisher, as an advance against pro-rata share of the royalties after earnout, plus one contributor copy.

READING PERIOD: Opens January 5, 2010, closes June 9, 2010. Manuscripts received before or after this period will be discarded unread, unless prior arrangements have been made otherwise.

Flash Me, for short short fiction–all Fantasy Issue, due August 31

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Flash Me Magazine’s All Fantasy Issue
FLASH ME MAGAZINE will be doing another ALL FANTASY ISSUE October 31, 2009. All stories submitted for the fantasy issue must contain some element of fantasy and be 1,000 words or less. The submission deadline is August 31, 2009.

Special guidelines apply, so please visit our website prior to submission. You can view the fantasy issue submission guidelines here.

The deadline’s coming up, and we’re still searching for spectacular stories – maybe yours?? 

Yvonne
FMM Admin Assistant

(thanks Specfic Markets)

New Market: Federations Anthology–Get your Star Trek on!

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federations_3All right, Science Fiction Writers, you have another cool opportunity for publication. Remember back when you and me were discussing writing for Star Trek? Well, John Joseph Adams, editor of this year’s fun anthology of zombie stories, The Living Dead, (which has a great story from my BFF Catherine Cheek) is looking for stories about the impacts of far-flung galactic empires in a new anthology called Federations. I quote from his guidelines:

What are the social, religious, environmental, or technological implications of living in such a vast society? What happens when expansionist tendencies on a galactic scale come into conflict with the indigenous peoples of other planets, of other races? And what of the issue of communicating across such distances, or the problems caused by relativistic travel? These are just some of the questions and issues that the stories in Federations will take on.

So, if you have an idea you’d like to explore in an intergalactic empire sort of way, in 5000 words or less, submit it to Adams by Jan 1 2009. We may not get to write for Star Trek, but we can write out our Trek-like visions and still discuss the same issues in this anthology–and that may be a better thing than boldly going into Roddenberry’s universe. We get a universe of our own to play with.