Friday, July 5, 2013

Stephen King Interview

Wonderful interview with Stephen King discussing storytelling.  It's nice to know that even the best have off days :)

A big thank you to Katherine Tomlinson for the link!!

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Storytelling from Andrew Stanton

And from Michael Bracken we have a video link that features film maker Andrew Stanton (Toy Story and WALL-E) talking about storytelling.

The 2013 Macavity Award Nominees

The 2013 Macavity Awards have been announced.  Here's the list of short stories that have been nominated.  A big congrats to friends of the blog Barb Goffman and Art Taylor.  It's always good to see familiar names mixed in with the famous.  You can find the entire list of nominees over at the Rap Sheet.

“The Lord Is My Shamus,” by Barb Goffman (in Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder, edited by Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman, and Marcia Talley; Wildside Press)
“The Unremarkable Heart,” by Karin Slaughter (in Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance, edited by Lee Child; Mulholland)
“Thea’s First Husband,” by B.K. Stevens (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2012)
“When Duty Calls,” by Art Taylor (in Chesapeake Crimes:
This Job Is Murder
)
“Blind Justice,” by Jim Fusilli (n Mystery Writers of America Presents: Vengeance)
“The Sequel,” by Jeffery Deaver (The Strand Magazine, November-February 2012-2013)

Cindi Myers Market News - Calls for Submissions

Cindi Myers Market News is posted every Wednesday and is a good source for paying markets.  This week she has a contest, an anthology call, a short story call, and a romance novel call posted.  Go check it out!

18th Wall - Anthology Calls

The 18th Wall is a new horror publisher with a pair of open anthology calls posted.  You'll find the guidelines in a pdf file.  For each they need stories of 4000 to 25,000 words and payment is 20% of the profits for each story.  The open titles are "Lying in Wounded Woods" with an August 1 deadline and "Those Who Live Long Forgotten" with a September 30 deadline.  You can find the details here.