Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Odds and Ends

Alan Rinzler has an informative piece up on his blog about new ways to sell short stories. You can check it out here http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2011/09/04/new-ways-to-sell-short-stories

Big Pulp has opened to submissions until September 30. This is a paying market for various genres of short fiction. http://www.bigpulp.com/index.html

The Western Online is celebrating two years of publication and they're now a paying market. $5 for shorts and $3 for non-fiction articles and artwork. You can find them here http://www.thewesternonline.com

And there's a lovely review of Pulp Ink here http://juliamadeleineauthor.blogspot.com/2011/09/pulp-ink-review.html

5 comments:

pattinase (abbott) said...

The technology is moving so fast now, it's impossible to keep up. I can't imagine anyone buying a single short story of mine when they can get them free in a zine with lots of other stories. I think that's probably for well-known writers. But what do I know?

Sean Patrick Reardon said...

The Alan Rinzler post was excellent, just bookmarked it. Thanks so much!

Chris Rhatigan said...

Patti -- I read a Lawrence Block article recently in which he said that he sold 500 copies of one of his short stories last month.

Of course, not many of his are available for free...

sandra seamans said...

It's impossible to keep up, Patti! And I, too, think the better known authors do better because of their name recognition.

You're welcome, Sean.

Yes, Chris, I think that's were online writers might have a problem. We're well-known, sort of, but our stories are also readily available for anyone who wants to take the time to look.

pattinase (abbott) said...

And, of course, I am not Lawrence Block. The distance between us is immeasurable.