Wednesday Linkage

If you're wondering about the future of short stories here are a couple of links that came in via the SMFS board. A hat tip to Bill Crider and Patti Abbott for supplying the links.

http://tinyurl.com/ygn8p3o and http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/books/28electric.html?_r=2&ref=arts

Speaking of Patti, she's posted a new flash challenge on her blog with November 30 being the day of great flash reading. You can find all the details here http://pattinase.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-flash-fiction-challenge.html Drop on over and let her know if you're going to participate.

Over at Market Scoops http://marketscoops.blogspot.com/ you'll find an interview with "Through the Eyes of the Undead" anthology editor, Robert Essig. You can find out what he's looking for in a story and link to the anthology guidelines in the post.

Thanks to Stephen Rogers, who stopped by yesterday, we've discovered that Suspense Thriller Zine has bit the dust after only two issues.

And googling your name can have unexpected side benefits. I found a new market source yesterday called NewPages.com http://www.newpages.com/ While this is a site for literary zines, there are a lot of markets listed that take crime fiction also. They have reviews, listings of submission calls, just all sorts of goodies for writers looking for markets.