Fireside

There's a new quarterly zine hitting the streets called "Fireside". It's not open to subs but the first issue is available in print or for your electronic readers. And it's going to be a paying market for shorts in all the genres. You can check it out here http://firesidemag.com/blog-2 if you click around the links you'll find excerpts to the stories in the first issue.

Anthology Calls

Angie has her monthly list of anthology calls up!! http://angiesdesk.blogspot.com/2012/04/anthology-markets.html

Angry Robot Books

Angry Robot Books Open Door submission period has begun and runs until April 30. This year they're looking for high fantasy novels and YA novels. You can check out all the details here http://angryrobotbooks.com/opendoor/

Angry Robot has also announced the creation of a new crime fiction imprint that will launch in Spring of 2013 called Exhibit A. More details here http://angryrobotbooks.com/2012/04/announcing-our-new-crime-fiction-imprint-exhibit-a/

Writer's Block

I'm pretty sure I don't want to live with this kind of writer's block!
http://hellnotes.com/writers-block-can-be-murder

Fires on the Plain

Back when Fires on the Plain first opened I pulled an old Western I'd been playing with out of my files and tried to whip it into something publishable. All it did was frustrate me near to death. Then one night I was watching "The Rifleman" and the setting was a nearly deserted town, which made me think of ghost towns and ghosts and so my new story began to take shape. The story is also a salute to one of Stanley Ellin's short stories that I read recently. I can't tell you which one though as it would give away the story. :) Anyhoo, after putting the final polish on the story I sent it off to the editor and today, with many thanks to Cullen Gallagher, the story is up.

http://firesontheplain.com/2012/04/13/no-rest-for-the-weary-by-sandra-seamans/

And if you haven't been reading this new zine, you should be. There's some great work there that turns the Western genre on its ear.

Go Read

Well, I'm tossing in the old keyboard. Noir doesn't get any better than this!
http://www.shotgunhoney.net/2012/04/the-things-we-do-for-love-by-patti-abbott.html

No Kidding!

People carrying guns may appear bigger than they are?!? And they needed a study to prove it?
http://news.yahoo.com/people-carrying-guns-may-appear-bigger-210313387.html