There are days when tracking down markets can be downright depressing. Oh, I found four new anthology calls but...judge for yourself.
Bristol Banner Books - author must buy either 5 copies for $100 or 10 copies for $150 on signing the contract if your story is selected.
A Christian anthology wants $15 plus a $3 shipping fee to purchase the anthology included with your submission.
New Asian Writing charges a $10 reading fee.
And Goose River's 9th annual anthology is charging a $1 per page fee for reading your submission. Poetry is limited to one per page.
You'll notice that I haven't included the links. These were all non-paying markets. Money, no matter how little, flows to the author, folks.
In all my clicking and looking I did find one new anthology call from The Dead Robot's Society. They're looking for shorts up to 5000 in the sci-fi/fantasy genre. The title of the antho is Explorers: Beyond the Horizon and the deadline is December 31, 2010. There is an upfront payment(not listed) and semi-annual royalty payments. You can find all the details at http://deadrobotssociety.com/anthology
Watch your backs out there, my friends!
4 comments:
I've heard of other small presses making the Bristol Banner type of coercion. Bad as this is, at least the writer receives a product he/she can resell. The other approaches are just plain robbery.
Yes, but if only the authors are selling why not just go straight to Lulu.com and publish yourself? The odds of having better content is much higher. If they only go with whoever will purchase the books, your story might wind up with some real crap. Not a good impression for a writer's work.
I think more writers will go to Lulu and the like. Well, if the books look as good as Needle, anyway!
I'm not saying a writer should self-publish, Paul, just that it's a better option than paying a "publishing house" to publish your work. And Lulu does a great job! Needle mag looks great!
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