Plots With Guns

There are some big changes coming over at "Plots With Guns". Read all about it here

http://anthonyneilsmith.typepad.com/hermansgreasyspoon/2011/04/big-plots-with-guns-news-meet-the-new-boss.html

Markets

Over at Duotrope I found a new flash market that takes all types of flash from one sentence pieces to 2500 words. The site is called "d.ustb.in" http://d.ustb.in/ and they accept flash in all the genres. This is a non-paying market.

You'll find a long list of markets looking for submissions here http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2011/04/sub-ops-ten.html They're mostly sci-fi and horror and most of them are paying markets.

For all you newbies looking for places to learn about writing I ran across Cool Plums Weblog which has been posting writing lessons since 2008. http://coolplums.wordpress.com

Shotgun Honey

With a hat tip to Brian Lindenmuth we have news of a new crime flash site. Editor, Kent Gowran, is looking for flash of 700 words or less for his new site "Shotgun Honey". If you remember DZ Allen's MuzzleFlash, you know exactly what he's looking for. For all the details go here http://bloodsweatmurder.blogspot.com/2011/04/shotgun-honey.html

The new site is under construction here http://shotgunhoney.blogspot.com

This is a non-paying market.

Pine Tree Mysteries

Pine Tree Mysteries is back with a new issue. According to the site, there was a death in the family which lead to the site not being updated. This is a non-paying cozy market. http://www.pinetreemysteries.com/

New Issues

You'll find loads of good writing out there on the web this morning, so go have a read!!

The April issue of All Due Respect has gone live with an excellent short story by Nigel Bird called "Hoodwinked". http://www.all-due-respect.blogspot.com

The Thrilling Detective is celebrating it's thirteenth year on the web. http://www.thrillingdetective.com/

A new issue of Thieves Jargon is up http://www.thievesjargon.com

And the newest issue of Pulp Metal has gone live where you'll find a piece of flash by yours truly along with some other very fine writers. http://pulpmetalmagazine.wordpress.com

Odds and Ends

The Spinetingler Award Nominees have been announced and now it's time to vote. Voting is open to the public, so what are you waiting for? Get over there and vote!!

http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2011/04/01/2011-spinetingler-award-voting/

Michael Bracken sent me a very cool link to Kurt Vonnegut's take on drama (it also explains the romance genre!) You can find it here http://sivers.org/drama

When I first decided to make the focus of this blog about short stories, hardly anyone out here was talking shorts. Now there's all kinds of sites and one of them is Chris Ratigan's "Death by Killing" blog where he reviews shorts and points readers towards stories they might have missed. He's just revamped his site and it looks great! He's also opened his blog for fellow reviewers. If you've got a short review, let him know. The more people we have talking shorts, the fewer we'll have screaming the short story is dead :) which we all know it ain't!!

You can find his invitation here http://death-by-killing.blogspot.com/2011/03/dbk-wants-your-reviews.html

Yippee-Ki-Yay Snoopy Dances

More award nominated short stories!! This time from the Western Fictioneers. Nominees for the 2010 Best Western Short Story Award are listed in alphabetical order:

“Left Behind” by Carol Crigger from the anthology Roundup! Great Stories of the West (La Frontera Publishing

“This Old Star” by Wayne Dundee from the anthology Bad Cop…No Donut (Padwolf Publishing)

“Two-Bit Kill” by C. Courtney Joyner from the anthology Law of the Gun (Kensington) .

“Scourge of the Spoils” by Matthew P. Mayo from the anthology Steampunk’d (Daw Books, Inc)

"Catch a Killer by the Toe" by Pete Peterson published by Untreed Reads

For the rest of the Peacemaker nominees go here http://westernfictioneers.blogspot.com/2011/03/western-fictioneers-2010-peacemaker.html