BV Lawson of the In Reference to Murder blog is running a contest. She has 5 copies of CiCi McNair's memoir, Detectives Don't Wear Seatbelts: True Adventures of a Female PI. So hurry on over before midnight August 31 to enter to win a copy. You'll find the details here http://inreferencetomurder.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/08/detectives-dont-wear-seatbelts.html Hat tip to the Women of Mystery blog.
The ever gracious, Michael Bracken, sent me this link http://www.sundress.net/ While the site isn't mystery specific, they do publish three or four literary zines full of shorts, flash, and poetry. If you click on the Best of the Web link, you'll find a link to a long list of journals on the right. Now you all know how easy it is to make a crime story literary so happy market hunting.
Over at Duotrope, their random market today was Big Ole Face Full of Monster. It's a print market and they pay 2 1/2 cents per word. They're looking for horror, sci-fi and cross genre work. Be sure to read the guidelines because there's a list of what they don't want there. http://www.gomonstergo.com/index.html
And if you're looking for something to read, I have a story up at BTAP. My thanks to David Cranmer, who actually believed I could write a decent western and Elaine Ash for her great editing. http://www.beattoapulp.com/stor/2009/0830_ss_MidnightShowdown.cfm And while you're there, be sure to take a read through the archives. You'll find plenty of great stories there!
4 comments:
You can do it all, Sandra.
What a lovely compliment, Patti! Anyone can write in different genres though. All you have to do is get the basic human elements down, because readers have to be able to relate to the characters. The rest is just the trappings of genre.
Yes, but those trappings take some work to get right. And some research. Plug in too many and it looks foolish. Not enough and it doesn't feel real.
That's true, but if you read shorts in all the genres you can pretty much pick up what's needed to give your story the right feel.
Of course, I still can't seem to write a romance story and I've read hundreds of romance novels. While I enjoy reading them, they don't ring true for me and when I try them, they just seem forced.
Maybe the trick is believing in the story you're writing, no matter what the genre is. Writing with an "it could happen" attitude.
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