Monday Linkage

I haven't run across any new markets in the last few days that were worth passing along, but I did find this interesting essay about anthology invites. We all love getting invited to submit to a zine, magazine or an anthology and in this essay Jim Hines gives us some great pointers. http://www.jimchines.com/2009/09/anthology-invites/#more-1039

Patti Abbott has an interesting discussion in progress on her blog about stealing stories. http://pattinase.blogspot.com/2009/09/stealing-stories.html Should we or shouldn't we takes bits and pieces of other people's lives for our stories? Go join the discussion.

And a bit of sad news to pass along. Geoff Eighinger has decided to shut down his review and short story site Eastern Standard Crime. The short story community will miss this site as Geoff was great about reviewing shorts, supporting zines and publishing some great new voices in the mystery community. You'll be missed ESC.

As most of you know, I've been playing around in other genres as a way to stretch my writing skills. So it was pretty cool to drop by Scalped this morning to check out their new issue and find that my trip into the horror genre was one of their featured selections. You can find "Living on the Backside of Nowhere" here http://www.scalpedmagazine.com/02_seamans_sandra_backside.html The artwork that accompanies the stories in this zine is incredible and the painting "Labor Pains" by Ken Vallario is awesome. Be sure to check out the stories and the artwork in this zine and remember that they're open to subs for issue three and the theme is sex.