Acceptance

Today's going to be a short post since I just burned all of my writing time getting some non-writing work finished. Ah well, it needed to be done. And I'll have plenty of writing time next weekend since I get to go up to Estes Park and have a writing retreat weekend. Woot!

I figured for today I could share some good news. Last week I got two acceptances. I placed a memoir flash fiction piece with Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, and I placed a short horror story with Sanitarium Magazine. The emails came two days in a row.

PSA: One of my acceptances showed up in the spam folder. Be sure to check your spam folders regularly! If it weren't for the fact that I check daily, I might have missed the opportunity.

Sanitarium will be released at the end of this month in both paper and e-magazine format. I don't have a release date for Ember yet, but it will be a fully illustrated hardcover book. I'll share each when they're available (and will update my publications tab with purchase links.)

Sanitarium has an interesting model. They're just now switching things to it. Each week, their subscribers get a mini-issue that they can access online. At the end of the month, each mini-issue is combined into the monthly full magazine, which they then get via their preferred means. So I already got to see my short story in the subscriber mini-issue, and now I'll get to hold a hard copy in my grubby little hands (remember the discussion last Monday?) I'm excited that I'll be getting a hard copy of each of these publications!

Do you have any good news to share? How is your summer writing time going? Are you actively submitting? Are you waiting to hear on any submissions?

May you find your Muse.

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Rejection & This Week's Links

I was hoping to have good news to share today. I'd been short-listed for an anthology and knew today was the day I'd hear one way or the other. Unfortunately, I got the rejection email instead of an acceptance. But I took a few hours to mope, and I've already resubmitted that story and several others. So I guess that's good news.

I'm working on major sleep deprivation at the moment, so for [Mostly] Wordless Wednesday, meet Skip. He's my co-pilot.

Now for some links, just a few hours late, yeah?

Accepting Submissions:

Vandercave is seeking humor. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or illustration. Deadline for first issue is December 17. 1250 words or fewer. Pays $10.

The Puritan is looking for fiction, poems, essays, reviews, and interviews. Deadline for the winter issue is December 25. Pays $15-$50, depending on submission type.

Simian Publishing is seeking submissions for their anthology Apotheosis: Stories of Survival After the Rise of the Elder Gods. 2000-7000 words. Submissions close December 31. Pays $.03/word.

Mocha Memoirs Press is seeking steampunk submissions for Avast Ye Airships!, and anthology. 1500-6000 words. Pays $10 per story. Deadline December 31.

The call is out for the Year's Best Weird Fiction anthology. They are seeking the best of your weird fiction published in 2014. Reprints. Deadline December 31. 17,499 words or less. Pays a minimum of $.01/word and 2 contributor copies.

Darkhouse Books is taking submissions for their anthology of historical fiction. Historical crime and mystery fiction. Deadline December 31. 2500-7500 words. Royalty share.

Infinite Acacia is seeking submissions for their anthology Infinite Urban Fantasy One. 1000-17,500 words. Flash fiction, short stories, novelettes, novellas. Deadline December 31. Pays $.01/word.

Another Dimension Magazine is seeking stories of 1000-3000 words. Horror and dark fantasy. Pays $.03/word. Submissions for Issue 1 close December 31.

Contests:

The Were-Traveler is holding a Shinigami Stories contest. Some element of the Grim Reaper must be in the story. Flash fiction or short story. First prize is $15. Deadline December 20.

Blue Mountain Arts is holding a Poetry Card Contest. Deadline December 31. First prize $300, plus publication on their site.

Any of these of interest? Anything to share? Publication news? 

May you find your Muse.

Busy Cleaning & Links

Oy! I'm trying to get my house ready for company, but I didn't want to skip Wednesday links, so without further ado....LINKS!

Accepting Submissions:

Long Count Press is seeking science fiction stories about space exploration and human ingenuity for their anthology Golden Age. Deadline September 30. Pays $20 plus a percentage of the profits and a contributor copy.

Rose Lemberg and Stone Bird Press are seeking stories that don't necessarily fit in elsewhere, and that fit the genres included in Speculative Fiction. 500-1400 words. Deadline September 30. Pays $.06/word for originals and $.03/word for reprints.

Dark Regions Press is taking submissions for their anthology I Am the Abyss. Adventure stories of horror and/or dark fantasy. 10,000-18,000 words. Deadline October 1. Pays $.05/word, plus royalties, plus contributor copy, plus signed print of artwork.

Whitefish Review is accepting submissions for Issue #16 - The Geography of Hope. Deadline October 1. They pay $10/printed page, minimum of $25, maximum of $50.

Unlikely Story is reading for The Journal of Unlikely Cryptography. Deadline October 1. Up to 8000 words. Pays $.06/word.

Lectores Coffee accepts short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, which they print directly on their coffee bags. 350 words or less. They take submissions at any time, but have specific reading periods. Current reading period ends October 1. Pays $20 and a free bag of coffee.

Brain, Child is a literary magazines for moms. They take several types of submissions, which they're open to year round, but they have a deadline of October 1 for a series of blog posts they're looking to fill. One is on LGBT families and the other is adoption-themed.

If you are a member of the Insecure Writer's Support Group, you can submit to the IWSG Guide to Publishing and Beyond. Your piece can be on either writing, publishing, or marketing. Deadline October 2. 200-1000 words. The e-book will be free, and there is no pay associated with this.

that's life! is open to your fast fiction. Multiple themes and genres (see the link for details.) Pays per published page, from 600-2600 words. Pays $200-$500, depending upon number of pages.

Dark Fuse takes dark fiction short story submissions for their magazine and anthologies. 2000-5000 words. Pays $50 (with the addition of royalties for their anthologies).

Please bear in mind that these are just links I pass along, not publications I can personally recommend or guarantee in any way. Always do your own due diligence before submitting to any publication.

Any of these interest you? Anything to pass along? Publishing news to share?

May you find your Muse.