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A Fly In Amber new paying web market
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New webzine A Fly in Amber is paying $10 per story and $20 per piece of art. They're not genre specific, but rather...

Byzarium's "Bad-Fic Contest" Now Open
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Byzarium, a genre webzine, is now running a bad fiction contest, looking for cliched, stereotyped, and generally bad speculative fiction...

Agent Lucienne Diver Moves to Florida
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Spectrum Literary Agency's Lucienne Diver has moved to Florida. She continues to work for the agency, which hasn't changed its place of business, and continues to handle...

Lesbian Ghost Story Anthology Seeking Submissions
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Catherine Ludoff is seeking queries to an anthology tentatively titled Haunted Hearths: Lesbian Ghost Stories. She'll pay 2 cents per word for 3-5,000 words of fantasy, sf, paranormal romance, or horror that fits the description...

Change to Clockwork Phoenix Guidelines; Update for Mythic Delirium
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Mike Allen is no longer accepting multiple submissions for Clockwork Phoenix. He does, however, continue to accept multiple submissions for Mythic Delirium...

John Joseph Adams looking for Zombie stories for reprint anthology
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John Joseph Adams is starting work on a reprint anthology of zombie stories, and seeking suggestions at his publicly accessible database...

Sourcebooks new romance lines to include paranormal, fantasy, science fiction
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Sourcebooks will be introducing their first fiction titles this September, with a paranormal romance called Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, about a ghost and...

Talebones Staffing Change; New Issue Nearly Out
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Talebones magazine is announcing the departure of co-editer Honna Swenson, and the receipt of issue #35. New address is...

Murky Depths is new magazine of "graphically dark speculative fiction"
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The debut issue of Murky Depths is available now. The new quarterly magazine of "graphically dark speculative fiction" features text and illustrated stories by...

Dark Recesses's "Deja Vu Horror Story Contest"
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Dark Recesses Press is sponsoring its "Déjà Vu Horror Story Contest." They're looking for short horror stories that fit the theme of "Lycanthrope." The winner gets paid...

Call for Thoughts of WisCon 31
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Aqueduct Press will be publishing The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 2, expanding on some of the discussions at the convention. Editors L. Timmel Duchamp and Eileen Gunn are looking for...

Delirium Books looking for short-short horror stories
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Delirium Books is paying five cents a word for horror short-shorts (up to 750 words) for its upcoming Horror D'oeuvres line of hardcover...

SFPA's Second Science Fiction Poetry Contest
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The Science Fiction Poetry Association is sponsoring its Second Annual Poetry Contest, and is looking for submissions of science fiction (or fantasy or horror) sonnets. Cash prizes include...

Electric Spec's Reading Period Closing
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Electric Spec will close its reading period for the next issue (scheduled to post 30 September) on 7 August. Guidelines are available...

Zudacomics.com to Take Submissions and Publish Comics
News > Manga/Graphic Novels
DC Comics's newest creation is Zudacomics.com, an online comic publisher that will be open to the public for submissions, and will rely on its readers to choose which of those submissions become regular features and wind up in print...

Sybil's Garage's next reading period begins 10 July
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Small press 'zine Sybil's Garage will open its reading period for issue #5 on 10 July. On that day, they'll post a web link for fiction submissions on their guidelines page. They pay up to $15 per story, and $10 per poem. For more information...

Reprint anthology Warrior Women needs suggestions
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Paula Guran is editing reprint anthology Warrior Women for Juno Books, and is looking for suggestions...

Fantasy Magazine Closed to Submissions
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Fantasy Magazine's co-editor Sean Wallace has announced that the magazine is closed to submissions. He notes that they expect to re-open in November, after the World Fantasy Convention.

Anthology of "Queer Horror Tales" Seeking Queries
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Dark Scribe Press will be soliciting short story queries for "an anthology of queer horror tales." Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet will be edited by Vince A. Liaguno and Chad Helder. They'll be paying 5 cents per word for stories between 1,000 and 7,500 words long, but writers must first query, between 1 October and next May. For more details...

Blind Eye Books reading for gay/lesbian anthology
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Blind Eye Books has filled the "boy's edition," Tangle XY, but they're still reading for the "girl's edition," Tangle XX. Pay rates are...

Genre Author Advance Survey Returns
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Tobias Buckell is updating his 2005 Author Advance Survey, and is requesting data from novelists. The results of the previous survey...

Shared World "New Ceres" Seeking Submissions
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New Ceres is a shared-world twice-yearly online publication seeking fiction and non-fiction set in their future 18th century world. They are paying...

Simon and Schuster Willing to Negotiate on Rights
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Simon & Schuster executives met with representatives of the Association of Authors' Representatives to clarify their position, that they are willing to negotiate...

Clockwork Phoenix to be original anthology series
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Mike Allen will be editing Clockwork Phoenix, an original anthology series, for Norilana Books. Payment is two cents per word, and Allen is looking for...

Sporty Spec half full
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Karen A. Romanko reports that she's bought about half the content for the forthcoming Sporty Spec, and she's still looking for...
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