Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Vol. 10, No. 2 14 May 2002 Website: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE Deadlines Contests NovelBooks Space Station Story Contest (gls) Once Upon a World Novella Contest (gls) Market Guidelines Glimmer Train Stories (gls) Market Information 3SF Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Asimov's Dreams and Nightmares Elysian Fiction Future Orbits Twilight Showcase (dead) ----------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINES Check out the CALLIHOO website, listed above, for more information on these contests, magazine issues, and anthologies. (Where it says "GLs in Vol. X No. Y," these are volume and issue of the CALLIHOO newsletter.) NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 31 May 2002 [Contest, poem any style, theme, or genre. $3 entry fee. Prizes: 1st $500, 2nd $250, 3rd $100, 4th-10th $25 each + pub in antho. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] VIRTUAL IRELAND SHORT STORY COMPETITION Deadline 31 May 2002 [Contest, short fiction, any genre, in English or Irish, to 1950 wds. Mult and online subs okay. Entry fee of $12US per entry. 1st place $4,000US, 2nd place $400 book package, 3rd place $200 book package. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] ONCE UPON A WORLD NOVELLA CONTEST Deadline 1 June 2002 [Contest, SF Romance 10,000 to 20,000 wds. 1st $100 + pub. No e-mail subs. Two subs max. $15 entry fee (ea). (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 2)] TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED Issue #24 reading window 1 May - 1 Jun 2002 [Annual printzine, SF/F/H to 10,000 wds. Pays 1-1/2 to 2 cents/wd. Reprints okay. Query for sim subs; up to 3 mult subs. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 26)] BYLINE SHORT-SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 5 June 2002 [Contest, general short story to 2,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $70, $35, $20. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] DEATHLINGS.COM "THE 70S WERE HELL AND WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT" CONTEST Deadline 15 Jun 2002 [Use contests to submit to magazines. H/DF to 4,000 wds. Pays 3 cents/wd. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 6)] IMAGININGS Deadline 15 June 2002 [Print anthology, SF/F 8,000-15,000 wds, pays $950 per story + 10% royalties. No reprints or E-mail subm. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 4 and No. 14)] BYLINE JUVENILE SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 25 June 2002 [Fiction for ages 5 to 8; 9 to 12; or 13 to 16. State targeted age group on ms. 3,000 words max. Entry fee $4. Prizes: $40, $30, $15. GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] DOWNSTATE STORY MAGAZINE Yearly Deadline 30 June 2002 [Annual literary printzine, genre fiction to 2,000 wds. Pays $50/story on accept. No reprints or E-mail subs. Buys 10 stories/year. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 6)] GLIMMER TRAIN'S FICTION OPEN Deadline 30 Jun 2002 [Contest, all genres and lengths. No reprints. Mult subs okay. No sim subs. 1st place $2,000, 2nd $1,000, 3rd $600. $15 reading fee per entry. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 1)] IDEOMANCER UNBOUND Deadline 30 June 2002 [Ebook antho, SF/F/H 1,000-5,000 wds, pays $20 on accept +royalties. No sim or mult subs or reprints. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 19)] IRREANTUM FICTION CONTEST Deadline 30 June 2002 [Mormon fiction contest, fiction (incl SF/F/H) to 8500 wds. 1st $100, 2nd $75, 3rd $50 + pub in =Irreantum=. Contest format. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 23)] LEAPS OF FAITH Deadline 30 June 2002 [Christian E-book SF antho, SF 3,000 to 10,000 wds. Pays royalties. Reprints and mult subs okay. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 21)] WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, 3RD QUARTER 2002 Deadline 30 June 2002 [$1000 first, $750 2nd, $500 3rd place. No entry fee. L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, P.O. Box 1630-JBW, Los Angeles, CA 90078. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 1)] BYLINE SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 3 July 2002 [Fiction, any topic, to 5,000 wds. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $70, $35, $20. GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] LOW PORT Deadline 15 July 2002 [Open antho, SF/F 3,000 to 10,000 wds, pays 5-8 cents/wd. on accept, reading between Sept 2001 and July 2002. No electronic subm. Low Port, Lee and Miller, P.O. Box 179, Unity, Maine 04988-0179. (GLs in Vol. 9, No. 1)] NOVELBOOKS SPACE STATION STORY CONTEST Deadline 15 July 2002 [Contest, SF abt. space station to 5000 wds. $25 entry fee. Mult subs okay; each must have entry fee and entry form. 1st $100, 2nd $75, 3rd $50 + pub. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 2)] NEW CENTURY WRITER AWARDS Deadline 31 July 2002 [Contest, screenplay or stage play any style, theme, or genre. $30 entry fee. Screenplay 1st $3000, 2nd $1500, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $200 each. Stage play 1st $2000, 2nd $1000, 3rd $500, 4th-10th $200 each. Mult. subs. okay. No e-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 16)] BYLINE 1ST CHAPTER OF A NOVEL CONTEST Deadline 6 August 2002 [Opening chapt unpub novel. Mainstream or genre; adult or YA. Max 25 pp. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $70, $40, $20. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] BYLINE GENRE FICTION CONTEST Deadline 5 September 2002 [Romance, sci-fi, confession, mystery, western, etc. story. No children's stories. Maximum 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $30, $15. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] UPC SCIENCE FICTION AWARD Deadline 14 September 2002 [European contest, SF (Catalan, Spanish, English, or French) 70 to 115 pp. Prizes 6,000 and 1,500 Euros +pub. No reprints or E- mail subs. Submit in contest format. No entrance fee. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 20)] BYLINE FLASH FICTION CONTEST Deadline 5 October 2002 [Short story or vignette under 1,000 words, which nevertheless feels complete. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $30, $15. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] MOTA: AN ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY OF FINE FICTION Deadline 1 November 2002 [Annual antho, fiction to 10,000 wds (to 8,000 wds preferred). Pays $100 on pub. Mult subs and reprints okay. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 9)] BYLINE NEW-TALENT SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 4 November 2002 [Writer who's never won a cash prize in a ByLine fiction contest. Max 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $35, $25, $15. GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] THE NATIONAL FANTASY FAN FEDERATION SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 1 December 2002 [Contest, SF/F/H. 1st place $50, 2nd $30, 3rd $20. Reading fee $2.00. No E-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 1)] BYLINE SHORT-SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 5 December 2002 [Short story, any type or subject, to 2,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $60, $30, $20. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 25)] THE MOONLIGHT & MAGNOLIA FICTION WRITING CONTEST: SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HORROR Deadline 15 December 2002 [Annual competition for new writers, SF/F/H to 10,000 wds. No reprints. Prizes: 1st $250, 2nd $100, 3rd $50. Entry fee $7.50 per story ($2.50 2nd and thereafter to 3 entries). (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 17)] POLYPHONY: STORIES BEYOND GENRE ANTHOLOGY Probably opens 1 Mar 2003 [Biannual print antho, slipstream/magical realism. Pays 5 cents/wd on accept. First open reading period abt. 1 Mar 2003. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 22)] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTESTS NOVELBOOKS SPACE STATION STORY CONTEST [Contest, SF abt. space station to 5000 wds. $25 entry fee. Mult subs okay; each must have entry fee and entry form. 1st $100, 2nd $75, 3rd $50 + pub. E-mail subs only. Deadline 15 July 2002.] NovelBooks, Inc. PO Box 661 Douglas, MA 01516 Submissions: contest@novelbooksinc.com Entry forms: http://www.novelbooksinc.com/entry.html URL: http://www.novelbooksinc.com/sscontest.html Novelbooks, Inc. Presents a Contest for All Science Fiction Writers ~ Aspiring and Published! Are you a fan of Jack Williamson, E.E. 'Doc' Smith, A.E. Van Vogt, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and other great Golden Age science fiction writers? Do you have a fantastic idea for a rousing, exciting, adventurous sf short story? Or perhaps a thoughtful, intuitive, contemplative story about mankind's first contact with other intelligent life forms? Then our new contest might be just up your space station. That's right: space station. Our contest is for the best science fiction short story set in/around/on/near a space station. Here are the guidelines: 1. The setting must be on/in/near a space station. 2. The station does not have to be orbiting our own Earth or be in our solar system. 3. No copyrighted worlds (for example, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5) 4. No gratuitous sex. While romance is acceptable, we're not looking for porn, and will return any submission at once if our judges consider the story so. 5. 5K words or less. Contest will be judged by published authors and/or professional editors. Your entry should be sent as an attachment in rtf, 12 pt Times New Roman, single spaced. Be sure to provide clear contact information (email, snail mail, and phone) in both your email and your attached story. Submit to: contest@novelbooksinc.com The top three winners receive cash prizes [$100 for 1st place, $75 for 2nd, $50 for 3rd], certificates of merit, and publication in print and electronic formats in the next NBI contest anthology--and the top scoring story will be the title of the anthology. The ten honorable mentions receive publication in both formats of the anthology, certificates of merit, and selected prizes from our NBI Cyber Shop with the anthology cover art. Send Entry Form [at http://www.novelbooksinc.com/entry.html] & Entry Fee - $25 in check or money order, made payable to NovelBooks, Inc. to: NovelBooks, Inc., PO Box 661, Douglas, MA 01516. Or if you wish, you may make use of PayPal or our NBI shopping cart. If [you] pay online, the Entry Form still needs to be mailed to the above address. You may enter more than one story, but each will require a separate entry fee and entry form. Note: no story will be considered/judged until the entry fee is paid. Submissions will be accepted May 1 through midnight, July 15. However, the total number of entries is limited to 60, so the cut off date is subject to change. Projected publication date (tentative at present) for the anthology is Halloween, 2002. $25 entry fee. For more information, contact: gail@novelbooksinc.com [http://www.novelbooksinc.com/sscontest.html] ONCE UPON A WORLD NOVELLA CONTEST [Contest, SF Romance 10,000 to 20,000 wds. 1st $100 + pub. No e-mail subs. Two subs max. $15 entry fee (ea). Deadline 1 June 2002.] Novella Contest Emily Alward, Editor Once Upon a World 1881 W. Alexander Rd. #1046 North Las Vegas, NV 89032 For those of you mourning the loss of =Romance and Beyond Magazine=, the 2002 =Once Upon A World= Novella Contest deadline has been extended. There are so few markets for sf-romance short stories and novellas that I wanted to let everyone know. Sponsor: =Once Upon a World Magazine= Editor: Emily Alward Fee: $15 per entry, 2 entries per person max Deadline: June 1, 2002 Enter: 2 copies of your 10,000-20,000 word sf/f romance and SASE for reply. First prize will be $100 and publication in the magazine. If contest funds allow, prizes will also be awarded to the second and third-place winners. For a fuller idea of what the editor hopes to find in sf/f love stories, check out the article "Looking for Science Fiction in All the Wrong Places," published in the September 1997 edition of the =SFR Newsletter=: www.sfronline.com/articles/lookingforsf.htm For more information or to enter the contest, please contact Emily Alward, Editor, =Once Upon a World=, 1881 W. Alexander Rd. #1046, North Las Vegas, NV 89032. If entering, please indicate "Novella Contest" somewhere on the envelope. Emily's email is: ejalward@yahoo.com Good Luck to everyone! Jody Wallace, Editor, Science Fiction Romance www.sfronline.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET GUIDELINES GLIMMER TRAIN STORIES [Print mag. Lit fiction to 12,000 wds. Pays $500 per story. No sim subs. Mult subs okay--3 per reading period. Reads in Jan, Apr, Jul, and Oct. Submit at website. No reprints.] Glimmer Train Press, Inc. 710 SW Madison Street, Suite 504 Portland, Oregon 97205 telephone: 503.221.0836 facsimile: 503.221.0837 Online-submission questions: info@glimmertrain.com For all other questions: assistance@glimmertrain.com We are interested in reading your original, unpublished stories. (We don't publish stories for children, and we don't publish novels.) No simultaneous submissions, please. When we accept a story for publication, we are purchasing first-publication rights. (Once we've published your story, you are free to, for instance, include it in your own collection.) Note: In an effort to save our backs from heavy mail buckets, we ask that you send your work via our new online submission procedure. It's easy, and will save you postage and paper. Just click the "ONLINE SUBMISSIONS" button [on the web page] to get started! Dates: January, April, July, and October. Response within 16 weeks. Reading fee: None. Payment for accepted stories: $500 for first-publication rights. Other considerations: * Open to all writers. * Stories should not exceed 12,000 words. * Okay to submit up to three stories per reading month. We look forward to reading your work! [http://www.glimmertrain.com/test.html] =Glimmer Train= Frequently Asked Questions About Submissions, Generally: Please follow our guidelines. Just click on WRITING GUIDELINES, then on the various options, for all the details. (Word count guidelines for standard story submissions are a little flexible, though, honestly. We'll at least consider stories as long as 15,000 words.) We very much prefer that you use our online- submission procedure to make submissions (you'll like it, too, I think because it will be so easy to send and then track), but, for a short while (a very short while), we will continue to consider paper Standard Story Submissions. If you do send a Standard Submission by traditional mail, it's important that you enclose a self-addressed, adequately stamped envelope for its return and response. (Oh, and realize that we don't enter them into the online system so they are not trackable, I'm sorry. They require faith.) Some Basics: Is a cover letter necessary? No. You'll have the opportunity to write a brief one when you make your online submissions, but it is not necessary: It's the story that counts. If you do include a cover letter, you can simply address it Dear Editor or you can address it to us (Susan Burmeister-Brown and/or Linda Burmeister Davies). You only accept "unpublished" work. Define that please. "This can be a tough one. If you've made 50 copies of your manuscript for classmates and friends, for instance, we'd call that unpublished. Heck, even if you had Kinko's bind them, we'd go for that. But if someone else put it out--say the school newspaper, or your writing group, we would look at that as published, especially if more than one piece of work (all yours, or yours and someone else's) was included in the pages. (Fifty copies of a collection of people's writing in it just about qualifies as a "litmag" these days.) And if there is ANY advertising, no matter the number of copies printed, it will be considered "previously published" by anyone I know. Published "only on a website" is published. Posted on your own internet "page"? If it's just your very own little spot, you have no links to or from your page, and your page isn't publicly promoted in any way, that's probably just fine. (In other words, if you just say to a few under 50 individual people, "come over here and look at my story," that would probably be okay.) We reserve the right to request a copy of the distributed piece or access the spot where it resides before deciding if the piece seems "published" to us. But I think you get the idea. This is not a vote against web publishing. So much good work goes unpublished; it makes sense to get your work out there and read however you can, but we only present unpublished stories to Glimmer Train Stories readers so if you want us to consider it, don't let it circulate before you let us see it. (See our writing guidelines, on [the web] site.) Did you get my story/poem? If you use our online-submission procedure, you'll know immediately! But, if you're sending paper submissions, I don't know. We used to log stories as they came in and went out, but it took far too much time away from reading so we simply stopped. Fortunately, it's extremely rare for a story not to reach us safely. And, although we will send back any postage paid postcards you enclose saying "We got it," we don't open envelopes until we're ready to read the stories so that doesn't really help you know, early on, that we got your work. You can send these first class, return receipt requested, but we're not always here to sign for them when they arrive so that's not overly helpful either. Bottom line, if you can, take comfort in the fact that 99.95% of the stories arrive safely. Your guidelines say you don't print children's stories. What exactly do you mean? =Glimmer Train Stories= is not a children's publication so if you imagine your reading audience to be children, that story would not be appropriate for =Glimmer Train Stories=. On the other hand, we publish lots of great stories that have to do with children. What about standard poetry submissions? I'm sorry, but we don't do that at this time. There are only the two of us reading and it's important to us that we be able to give every submission the read it deserves. Can I fax or email you my work? We don't accept faxed submissions (our little machine can't handle the workload), but we certainly welcome work submitted on our website! (You will need to use our online submission procedure, though, we're afraid of email "attachments" and drop them like hot potatoes.) Do I need to copyright my work before sending it out? Well, what most writers do is simply handwrite a "c" with a circle around it, and then their name and the year. A kind contributor recently told me that these instructions work for her on her PC in Microsoft Word in Windows 98: "Try hitting Alt + Ctrl + C." Some people go to the trouble of actually filing with the Library of Congress to officially establish the copyright. (I've talked to maybe 4 people in 10 years who have gone that far, and they may have excellent reasons for doing it. Please be aware that I do not know if that is the only, the best, or even an appropriate way to protect one's work. I know that some people do it, perhaps for good reason.) But, if you send your work to a reputable publication, it's hard for me to imagine that someone would abuse it. We, for instance, receive thousands and thousands of manuscripts a year. We only publish a few dozen of our very favorites. We make no money at all in this business. The last thing we would need (or want to instigate since we actually like writers) would be a lawsuit for inappropriately using someone's work without their express permission. What does "simultaneous submission" mean? "How about multiple submission"? And are they okay with =Glimmer Train=? Simultaneous means you're sending the same story to more than one publication at a time. We ask you please NOT to do this. We invest so much in reading, considering, and re-reading stories that once we know we want a story, it's just heartbreaking (always for us, and often for the author) to discover we will not be able to publish the piece in =Glimmer Train Stories= because we only print stories for which we would have first publication rights. If you send us multiple submissions, it means you're sending more than one story to us at a time or maybe the same story for several categories. That's just fine. Will you give me feedback on my story? No, I'm sorry; I wish we could. With some 30,000 manuscripts a year, can you imagine? Yikes! How do I do a word count? Most of you will have a word count option right in your word processing program; just use that. If you don't, you can count the words on half an average page, double that, and multiply it by the number of pages; that's close enough. I live outside the U.S. Are my manuscripts welcome? Of course. And now that we have the online submission procedure, it's extremely easy to do. What kind of stories are you looking for? We publish literary short fiction--skillfully, carefully written work in which every word has been placed with intention--that we find emotionally affecting. The pieces we print influence how we look at ourselves, other people, the world at large. We want to be somehow enlarged by a story and the perspective it offers. We don't do genre work (horror, romance, mystery, sci-fi, etc.) or stories intended for children. (By the way, literary fiction can be mainstream and mainstream can be literary so that's a harder line to draw.) We don't like and also don't publish graphic violence or hateful-for-its-own-sake material. I strongly recommend reading some literary short fiction (=Glimmer Train Stories=, =Best American Short Fiction=, Pushcart or O'Henry collections) prior to submitting work just so you know what sort of material we enjoy. When you accept a story, what rights are you buying? First publication rights and non-exclusive anthology rights. This means if the story has been published--anywhere, including on the web--before, it is not a story we will publish. (There's a lot of fiction that goes begging because there are so few literary publications to present it, so we only consider work that's never seen print.) If the story you are submitting is scheduled to be included in an upcoming collection, let us know the publication schedule so, if we want to publish it, we can determine if we can beat that date. (If you're new to this, don't worry: book publishers generally really like to be able to say that individual stories in a collection were previously published elsewhere. It proves their desirability.) The non-exclusive anthology rights that we buy do not restrict your ability to include the story in a collection of your own. It just means that if, at some point, we decide to publish an anthology, we have the right to choose your story for inclusion. (And if we do choose it, we will pay you an additional $300.) Can I resend a story I think I've substantially improved? Absolutely, but you must send it as a brand-new submission, which means, if it is a competition submission, you must pay the reading fee again. We are not bothered, though, by typos or other relatively insignificant errors. Even if you had changed your characters' names and didn't get them all replaced, we'll be able to detect that. If we like the story a lot, but have a question, we'll ask you for clarification. In other words, you should only consider incurring the cost of re-sending a competition submission if you have made substantial changes to it. Should I send my story as a standard submission or as a competition entry? It's up to you. Here are some things to consider: Do you and your story qualify for a particular category? (If your story is 5,000 words long, it won't qualify for the Very Short Fiction Award. If your fiction has been published, you probably won't qualify for the Short Story Award for New Writers. Check the guidelines for other specifics.) Payment is higher for first place winners than for standard submissions, but standard submissions do not require reading fees. Winning stories get published a little sooner than standard submissions. Competition winners' profiles are a little higher (and agents are somewhat more likely to try to track winners down, thinking they don't have agents yet), but =Glimmer Train Stories= is read and highly regarded by agents and publishers and editors and writing programs so being published in it already gets you unbeatable exposure. One other consideration: competitions are a little more complicated to judge so notification takes longer. Again, check the guidelines. Your work will receive equal attention and consideration whether it is sent as a standard submission or as a competition entry. (And, yes, it's okay to send for both, if you like. Just mention in both online-submission cover letters that you are doing so.) [http://www.glimmertrain.com/faqs.html] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET INFORMATION 3SF Liz Holliday, editor of =3SF=, said, "I've now read all but two of the hardcopy submissions. I have four or so held for second reads. On the other hand, I haven't actually sent out the response letters yet. "I have four email subs that came in today, plus two requested rewrites. "I think I'm winning." [sff.publishing.3sfmagazine, 6 May 2002] ANDROMEDA SPACEWAYS INFLIGHT MAGAZINE Update #1: May 2002 After 12 months of planning and hard work, the most anticipated launch of 2002 is almost upon us--the maiden launch of Andromeda Spaceways. Where: Main Room, Convergence 2002 (Hotel Y, Melbourne) Date: Sunday, 9th June 2002 Time: 8.00pm (before the Maskobalo) Everyone is welcome. The launch promises to be an event of special magnificence in itself, involving a cast of thousands (well, a cast of 12, anyway) and a well-known rock-'n-roll idol (well, Ian Nichols, actually; he plays the guitar a bit, doesn't he?). But the star of the evening will be Issue 1 of the =Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine=. Edited by Benjamin Payne (who also edits =Potato Monkey=) and Robbie Matthews (one of the driving forces behind the highly successful =Nor of Human...=), it will contain fiction by such luminaries of speculative fiction as: Chuck McKenzie, Dave Luckett, Lyn McConchie, Stanislaw Wiatrowski, Bruce Boston, Trent Jamieson, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Rick Kennett, Stephen Dedman, Cat Sparks, Michael Davidson, and Ian Nichols. It will also contain a science column by Jeff Harris, magazine and book reviews, and an interview with new Australian author, Josephine Pennicott. The Long Road Getting this far has taken much blood, sweat and tears. May, 2001: Comments on Eidolist spark several writers, editors and hangers-on to form the AndromedaSpaceways mailing list, to discuss the possibility of producing a bimonthly magazine of pulp speculative fiction. They don't take much convincing. In the coming months there is much discussion about what, how, when and where. October, 2001: Andromeda Spaceways opens its doors to submissions, and is flooded. 300 submissions are received in the first 3 months. November, 2001: Andromeda Spaceways holds its official Formation Meeting, and the proposal to form a cooperative to administer the magazine is passed unanimously. Andromeda Spaceways holds its first public event, a pre-pre- launch at Borderlands. January, 2002: Andromeda Spaceways opens to advance subscriptions. February, 2002: The registration of the Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Cooperative Limited is finally approved by the powers-that-be. The fiction list for Issue 1 is finalised. March, 2002: Andromeda Spaceways holds its second public event, a pre-launch at Swancon. April, 2002: Andromeda Spaceways receives its 500th submission. May, 2002: Issue 1 of the =Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine= goes to print. [www.andromedaspaceways.com] ASIMOV'S A writer on SFF.NET notes that =Asimov's= editor Gardner Dozois's wife had open heart surgery not too long ago, and they are both rather consumed by its implications and in making her well. "We may all be getting the form rejection for a while if for no other reason than he doesn't have time to do the handwritten notes at the moment." [sff.people.liz, 26 Apr 2002] DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES David Kopaska-Merkel, editor of =Dreams and Nightmares=, said, "One week behind on reading snail-mail subs and two weeks behind on reading e-subs. Issue 62 is laid out and issue 63 is wide open." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=291, 13 May 2002] ELYSIAN FICTION Jim Bailey, editor of =Elysian Fiction=, said, "I posted the following to the [=Elysian Fiction=] web site on the guidelines page (http://www.elysianfiction.com/gls.htm) "Status Update: May 7th, 2002 "Issue #2 is now days away from being published. Sunday, May 12th is the goal, but it might be sooner if I get all the work done (proofing of stories and formatting). "Stories for Issues #3 and #4 are all contracted for, so these should be coming out in short order as well. I'm going to shoot for Wednesday, May 29th for Issue #3, and Wednesday, June 19th for #4. Issue #5 will probably come out in late July, with #6 planned for late August, but this depends on the quantity and quality of submissions I get between now and then as much as anything (the delays in reading and publishing have understandably led to a dropoff in submissions, but I think once issues 2, 3, and 4 start coming out, they'll pick up again). "And speaking of submissions, I'm once again behind.  Stories sent from February 1st to the present are awaiting reading still. I'll be clearing this backlog as soon as Issue #2 is posted. "Finally, there's a small adjustment to the contract (http://www.elysianfiction.com/contract.htm). Clause #2 has been modified to simply state that if I wish to use rights other than those specified in clause #1, the author and I must come to a separate agreement. The old clause, which was unnecessarily vague and not really needed for the purposes of publishing =Elysian Fiction=, is shown with strikethrough for now to show the change. Authors who have signed the previous version will not be required to follow the "First Offer" clause -- they may seek any kind of reprint publication after the 3-month exclusive period unfettered by any need to contact me for any reason." [sff.publishing.elysian-fiction, 7 May 2002] FUTURE ORBITS Bimonthly E-magazine =Future Orbits= gives the following on their website (http://www.futureorbits.com/): Email Submission Guidelines For the remainder of May [2002], =Future Orbits= will be accepting emailed fiction submissions from all writers, regardless of whether they are submitting from outside or inside the United States. Just please be sure to follow the below guidelines. Submissions which do not follow these guidelines may not be read. If your story is accepted, payment is US$.06 to US$.10 per word on acceptance for first worldwide publication rights and nonexclusive rights, which are detailed in the contract. Guidelines: 1. Please only send unpublished science fiction stories. 2. Please only send one story at a time and wait until you receive a reply for that story before sending another one. 3. Story length must not exceed 7,500 words. 4. Please send stories as an attachment in either a rich text format (preferred) or text file. All other attachments will be deleted. Do not cut and paste stories into the email body. 5. Be sure to include your full contact information (name, address, email, phone #) in both the email body and on the manuscript. 6. Format manuscripts to be double-spaced with one-inch margins (text file submissions are excepted). 7. Indent all paragraphs and do not put an extra return between paragraphs. 8. Email stories to editor@futureorbits.com and insert "submission" in the subject field. 9. Although every effort is made to reply to each submission as soon as possible, please allow four to eight weeks before querying about a submission. [http://www.futureorbits.com/guidelines/emailsubs/emailsubs.html] TWILIGHT SHOWCASE A writer on the =Speculations= Rumor Mill got an email response from the editor of =Twilight Showcase=. Here's the bulk of it. "It is with no small amount of regret that we must announce that =Twilight Showcase= will be ceasing publication with issue thirty-two, due in August 2002. Because our fiction slots for both issues thirty-one and thirty-two are full, we will not be reopening to fiction submissions at any time." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=221, 7 May 2002] ***************************************************************** * "There are simple maxims--not perhaps quite as simple as * * those [of others] offered to me--which I think might be * * commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use * * a long word if a short one will do. Second: if you want to * * make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some * * of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not * * let the beginning of your sentence lead the readers to an * * expectation which is contradicted by the end." * * --Bertrand Russell, "How I Write," from =Portraits of * * Memory=, 1956 * ***************************************************************** ==End of the CALLIHOO Newsletter for 14 May 2002==