First up, in case you haven't heard, there are new issues of MystericalE http://www.mystericale.com and Plots With Guns http://www.plotswithguns.com out there for your reading pleasure.
And I stumbled across the Innsmouth Free Press yesterday while I was clicking around. http://www.innsmouthfreepress.com/?page_id=3 is the link to their submission page. They open to short story submissions of 300 to 5000 words inspired by the work of HP Lovecraft. They pay $10CAD for 1000 to 5000 words and $5CAD for flash under 1000 words.
Over at The Kill Zone blog http://killzoneauthors.blogspot.com they're doing first page critiques for some of their readers. Even if you don't care to submit one, you'll find lots of interesting information for newbie novel writers if you scroll on down through the posts from this week. Lots of good stuff here that applies to short story writers as well.
Jason Sanford has an eye-opening post about anthologies and one editor in particular. I know I learned a few things by reading "Too Bad You Can't Cash Good Karma" http://www.jasonsanford.com/jason/2010/03/cashing_good_karma.html
And NK Jemisin has an interesting post about writing for yourself and not the market called "I Am the Market" http://nkjemisin.com/2010/03/i-am-the-market/ While the idea is fine and I do tend to write for myself, not every story done this way will find a market. I know, I've spent the last two days searching for a market for a crime/ghost/dark humor/wacko fantasy story. Still looking!
2 comments:
Can't remember if you posted this anywhere, but Robert Swartwood blogged about who even reads what's getting written in Literary Journals. Jeff in the comments has a bleak view of writing short stories in general.
http://www.robertswartwood.com/insights/in-the-valley-of-lost-literary-journals/
Gonna investigate that Innsmouth Free Press link. I adore HPL.
I didn't link to this, Anton, but I have read very similar thoughts elsewhere about literary journals. And I agree with Jeff's wife. Readers, for the most part, don't care about beautiful phases, they want a story that entertains.
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