Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Vol. 11, No. 8 29 July 2003 Website: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE Deadlines Contests Dark Fire's First Short Story Contest (gls) Fantastical Visions 2003 Short Fiction Writing Contest (gls) Market Guidelines Here & Now, the Magazine of Urban Fantasy (gls) Market Information Dreams and Nightmares Ellery Queen Fantastic Book Club Fantastic Stories Realms of Fantasy SCI FICTION SF Rising Strange Horizons Sword & Sorceress 21 Weird Tales Would That It Were Market Lists Paula Fleming's SF Market List Jean Seok's Speculative Fiction Markets Mary Soon Lee's Speculative Fiction Markets ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) THE PHOBOS WRITING CONTEST Deadline 31 July 2003 [Contest, SF to 7500 wds. 12 $500 prizes + possible pub in antho. No entry fee. Entrants 18 years or older. Up to 3 entries per person. Include entry form with each. E-mail subs only. No reprints or collaborations. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 3)] OCEANS OF THE MIND FALL 2003 ISSUE: SCIENCE FICTION MYSTERIES Deadline 1 August 2003 [PDF magazine, SF to 8,000 wds. Pays from 5 cents/wd. Mysteries. Robbery, murder, piracy, locked room. No H/F/S&S. Prefers E-mail subs. Sim subs okay. RT E-mail 4-5 wks, snail 6- 8 wks. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 29)] MYTHOLOG STORIES FOR PEACE CONTEST Deadline 2 August 2003 [Contest, stories for peace with mythic theme. Prize $50 + pub. No reprints. All entries considered for pub in Mytholog (no pay). Mult subs okay (separate E-mails). E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 4)] BYLINE 1ST CHAPTER OF A NOVEL CONTEST Deadline 5 August 2003 [Opening chapter of unpub novel. Mainstream or genre; adult or YA audience. Max 25 pages. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $70, $40, $25. Winners not printed; no rights taken. No reprints or E-mail subs. Mult subs okay with separate entry fees. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 33)] ELEVENTH ANNUAL GARDEN STATE HORROR WRITERS SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 15 August 2003 [Annual contest, H/SF/F/Myst/Susp/Thriller/ Romance to 1500 wds. 1st prize $100, 2nd $50, 3rd $25. Entry fee $10. E-mail subs only. No reprints. Mult subs okay; entry fee for each. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 5)] PATH OF THE BOLD Deadline 15 August 2003 [Anthology, Silver Age Sentinels RPG stories 3,000-6,000 wds. Pays 3-5 cents/wd. within 30 days of pub. No E-mail or mult subs. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 2)] TALES OF THE UNANTICIPATED Open 15 July to 15 August 2003 [Annual printzine, spec fic/F/H to 10,000 wds. Pays 1-1/2 to 2 cents/wd. No serials. No e-mail subs. Reprints and sim subs okay if say. Up to 3 mult subs. RT long. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 4)] DARK FIRE'S FIRST SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 31 August 2003 [Brit webzine contest, H/DF to 5,000 wds. 1st 25 pounds+pub, 2nd 15 pounds+pub, 3rd 10 pounds+pub, up to 5 HM--pub only [no pay]. No entry fee. One entry per person. E-mail subs only. No reprints or sim subs. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 8)] SAY. . . AREN'T YOU DEAD? Deadline 1 September 2003 [Semi-annual printzine, themed. Fic to 8,000 wds. Pays $10/piece. No zombies, vampires, famous dead people or ghosts.. No sim, mult or electronic subs or reprints.] BYLINE GENRE FICTION CONTEST Deadline 5 September 2003 [Short story that fits category: romance, sci-fi, confession, mystery, western, etc. No children's stories. Max 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $30, $15. Winners not printed; no rights taken. No reprints or E-mail subs. Mult subs okay with separate entry fees. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 33)] THE MANY FACES OF VAN HELSING Deadline 15 September 2003 [Antho, H (mostly) about Van Helsing to 8,000 wds. Pays 8-10 cents/wd. + share of royalties. No mult or E-mail subs. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 3)] WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, 4TH QUARTER 2003 Deadline 30 September 2003 [$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. 10 No. 33)] THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEMES IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Between 1 July 2003 and 1 October 2003 [Encyclopedia entries on SF/F themes and classic works. 400 1,000-wd. themes, 200 1,000-word classic works. Pays $45 per entry. Query first. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 4)] 2003 ZOETROPE: ALL-STORY SHORT FICTION CONTEST Deadline 1 October 2003 [Annual contest. Literary fiction to 5,000 wds. 1st $1000, 2nd $500, 3rd $250, 7 HM. $15 entry fee. No reprints or E-mail subs. Mult subs okay; separate envelopes and entry fees. Contest format. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 7)] BYLINE FLASH FICTION CONTEST Deadline 10 October 2003 [Short story or vignette under 1,000 words, which nevertheless feels complete. These often depend on atmosphere and technique more than plot. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $30, $15. GLs in Vol. 10 No. 33)] POLYPHONY 4 Open 1 September 2003 to 15 October 2003 [Print antho, lit spec fic 4,000-10,000 wds. Pays 6 cents/wd. to $600 on accept. No E-mail subs (except overseas), reprints, or sim or mult subs. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 4)] MOTA 4: INTEGRITY Deadline 1 November 2003 [Annual antho, theme of "Integrity." Fiction to 6,000 wds. Pays $100/story on pub. No reprints or E-mail subs. Mult subs okay; separate envelopes. (GLs in Vol. 11 No. 7)] OCEANS OF THE MIND WINTER 2003: AUSTRALIAN WRITERS Deadline 1 November 2003 [PDF magazine, SF to 8,000 wds. Pays from 5 cents/wd. No H/F/S&S. Prefers E-mail subs. Sim subs okay. RT E-mail 4-5 wks, snail 6-8 wks. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 29)] BYLINE NEW-TALENT SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 5 November 2003. Open to writers who have never won cash prize in a ByLine fiction contest. Maximum 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $35, $25, $15. Winners not printed; no rights taken. No reprints or E-mail subs. Mult subs okay; separate entry fees. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 33)] FANTASTICAL VISIONS 2003 SHORT FICTION WRITING CONTEST Deadline 15 November 2003 [Contest, F 2,000 to 10,000 wds. 1st $200+pub, 2nd $150+pub, 3rd $100+pub, HM .5 - 1.5 cents/word+pub in Fantastical Visions Vol. III. Entry fee: none for 1 entry, $5 for 2nd, $3 for each thereafter. No reprints. Subs must be hardcopy with electronic; electronic can be E-mail or online entry form. GLs in Vol. 11 No. 8)] BYLINE SHORT-SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 5 December 2003 [Short story of any type or subject, to 2,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $60, $30, $20. Winners not printed; no rights taken. No reprints or E-mail subs. Mult subs okay with separate entry fees. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 33)] OCEANS OF THE MIND SPRING 2004 ISSUE: COLONIES Deadline 1 February 2004 [PDF themed mag, SF to 8,000 wds. Pays from 5 cents/wd. Science Fiction stories about colonies. How they do or don't survive, the challenges and rewards. No H/F/S&S. Prefers E-mail subs. Sim subs okay. RT E-mail 4-5 wks, snail 6-8 wks. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 29)] SAY. . . WHY AREN'T WE CRYING? Reading 1 November 2003 to 1 April 2004 [Semi-annual printzine, themed. Fic to 8,000 wds. Pays $10/piece. No sim, mult or electronic subs or reprints.] OCEANS OF THE MIND SUMMER 2004: SPIRITUAL SCIENCE FICTION Deadline 1 May 2004 [PDF themed magazine, SF to 8,000 wds. Pays from 5 cents/wd. No H/F/S&S. Prefers E-mail subs. Sim subs okay. RT E-mail 4-5 wks, snail 6-8 wks. (GLs in Vol. 10 No. 29)] DAIKAIJU ANTHOLOGY Deadline 30 November 2004 [Antho, giant monster stories to 12,000 wds. Pays Aus$30/story. Enquire for E-mail subs. GLs in Vol. 10 No. 31)] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTESTS DARK FIRE'S FIRST SHORT STORY CONTEST [Brit webzine contest, H/DF to 5,000 wds. 1st 25 pounds+pub, 2nd 15 pounds+pub, 3rd 10 pounds+pub, up to 5 HM--pub only [no pay]. No entry fee. One entry per person. E-mail subs only. No reprints or sim subs. Deadline 31 Aug 03.] Karonda Barker, Editor Submissions: editor@scared.org Your task, should you choose to accept it: Pick one of the opening lines below, and take it onwards. The tale can twist where it will, but please keep it within our genres of horror and dark fantasy, and under 5000 words. Start here: The following opening lines must be used exactly as printed here. Choose one and take it ... somewhere interesting. 1: "You've got to be kidding," Janet said. "In our cellar?" 2: Arnold was astonished when he saw Mr. Collins lumbering up the sidewalk towards him, mainly because he had forced himself to sit through the man's dull funeral just the week before. 3: The dragon opened its mouth and yawned, consciously letting the moonlight glint off the razor-sharp teeth; I was supposed to be impressed. 4: The world was filled with blood: roiling, boiling, unending sticky redness. 5: I froze, crouched close to the wall; there was something out there--I had definitely heard it move in the darkness. The rewards for your bold action: 1st Place: 25 pounds and publication in the Contest Winners issue. 2nd Place: 15 pounds and publication in the Contest Winners issue. 3rd Place: 10 pounds and publication in the Contest Winners issue. Up to 5 Honourable Mentions will also be published in the Contest Winners issue. [[Note: the magazine does NOT pay]] Entries will be judged by =Dark Fire= editors Karonda Barker and Dr. Jones. Deadline: All entries must be received by 31st August 2003. We will reply by October 20th 2003. The special Contest Winners issue will be published on Halloween, October 31st 2003. Going for it: There is NO fee to enter this contest, but only one entry per person please. No reprints, no simultaneous submissions, no copyrighted characters. Please do not indent new paragraphs, but leave a blank line between them instead. Either US or UK spellings are accepted, but PLEASE proofread your work! Anything that requires much editing by us will be extremely unlikely to win. Please send your work as MSWord, RTF or text within the body of the email. No other formats will be viewed. Send to: editor@scared.org Please write "Contest Submission" in the subject line of your email. Submissions without this will be treated like ordinary fiction submissions, and will not be entered into the competition. By sending your contest entry to =Dark Fire= you are agreeing that should your story be chosen as a winner, =Dark Fire= will get First Electronic (World Wide Web) Publishing Rights for all winning stories, these rights being exclusive for two months only. Authors retain copyright at all times. Currently all stories published on =Dark Fire= are archived on the site until the author asks for them to be removed. Send any questions concerning the contest to editor@scared.org [http://darkfireuk.tripod.com/darkfire/id33.html] FANTASTICAL VISIONS 2003 SHORT FICTION WRITING CONTEST [Contest, F 2,000 to 10,000 wds. 1st $200+pub, 2nd $150+pub, 3rd $100+pub, HM .5 - 1.5 cents/word+pub in Fantastical Visions Vol. III. Entry fee: none for 1 entry, $5 for 2nd, $3 for each thereafter. No reprints. Subs must be hardcopy with electronic; electronic can be E-mail or online entry form. Deadline 15 Nov 2003.] Fantasist Enterprises "Fantastical Visions" Entries P.O. Box 9381 Wilmington, DE 19809 E-mail submissions (to accompany hardcopy): storyentries@fantasistent.com URL: www.fantasistent.com Please read all the rules. Your entry will lose standing or even be disqualified if certain guidelines are not followed. Thanks. 1) Legal Information: Entry must be original, unpublished, and unproduced, and not submitted to any other publisher or producer at the time of submission. All entries must be original and the sole work of the entrant and the sole property of the entrant. Fantasist Enterprises purchases the following rights: First Anthology rights in the Work in the English language, throughout the world, and First Electronic (Internet) rights in the Work in the English language, throughout the world, for the purpose of promotion. Payment will be made after acceptance of a final draft - FE may require some editing work before payment is made. All federal, local, and state taxes are the responsibility of the winners. Entrants under the age of 18 will need a parent or legal guardian's signature for publication contract. 2) Theme: Stories must be of a fantastical nature. This is a broad description, but basically keep the nature of the stories magical and not technological. An entry could be high fantasy with elves and powerful wizards, a supernatural thriller set in the modern day, a tale of magic in ancient Egypt, or any other form of fantasy. While Fantastical Visions is directed towards adults, it should still be suitable for a mature young adult reader - so please keep content somewhere between the movie ratings of PG-13 and R. The editors reserve the right to disqualify stories that contain content that does not fit this criteria. 3) Format: The contest is open to stories from 2,000 to 10,000 words. Manuscripts must be typed or machine printed, double-spaced, on one side of 8-1/2 x 11 white paper (no other colors, please! Be kind to our eyes.). The author's name, address, and e-mail address (if available) must appear in the upperhand left corner of the first page of the entry. The word count should appear in the upperhand right corner of the first page. The name of the author, the name of the story and the page number must appear on every page after the first, in the upperhand right corner. Include a #10 SASE (Self-Addressed-STAMPED-Envelope) for correspondence. No requests for notification of receipt of entries will be responded to . . . so don't send them! (Often times envelopes can go unopened until we are ready to read entries, to reduce the chance of losing something.) Please include an electronic version of your manuscript in a Word (.doc) file, or a rich text file (.rtf). Please include this on a standard floppy disk or cd. Make sure your envelope is properly cushioned and labeled for proper and secure mail handling. You can also send your file as an attachment in an e-mail to "storyentries@fantasistent.com." Please include all of your information in the e-mail, as well as a note concerning the status of your hardcopy (when it was sent, when it will be sent). You can also upload your story with our online entry form (coming soon). An electronic entry with NO hardcopy will NOT be accepted into judging unless a hardcopy is received before the entry deadline. No manuscripts will be returned. 4) Entry Fees: There is no entry fee for one manuscript. If you are submitting more than one manuscript, please remit $5.00 for two and add $3.00 for each manuscript thereafter (if you send in four manuscripts, the cost would be $11.00). Make checks and money orders payable to Fantasist Enterprises, or pay with a major credit card, checking account, or PayPal account funds, all through PayPal, when you upload your stories with our online form. Entry fees are non-refundable. Manuscripts mailed separately will be considered multiple submissions and fees will apply. 5) Optional Proofreading Service You can opt to have your manuscript(s) proofread before official judging begins. For each manuscript include $10.00. Your story will be reviewed for spelling and grammatical errors, other technical issues, and given a deep editing, with such issues as story structure, and character development examined. Comments will then be returned to you, so you can make revisions if desired. This service will not affect the judging process, but may help you improve your story, before judging begins. Comments will be returned to you via e-mail, in a PDF file. If no e-mail address is provided, your comments will be sent to you on a PC- compatible CD. If you cannot read PDFs, get Adobe Acrobat for free. Manuscripts to receive editing must be postmarked by October 1st, 2003. Proofreading fees are in addition to multiple-entry fees. Edits of additional stories can be performed at a cost of $6.00 per additional story. Make checks and money orders payable to Fantasist Enterprises, or send a PayPal payment to "payments@fantasistent.com." This is a paid service of Fantasist Enterprises, and thus, fees are non-refundable. 6) Mailing: Mail all entries to Fantasist Enterprises, "Fantastical Visions" Entries, PO Box 9381, Wilmington, DE 19809. Submit each entry only once. You may submit more than one story, but only one of your entries can win (see section "3" on Fees for more on multiple-entry fees). Entries must be postmarked by November 15th, 2003. In order for your entry with an edit to be processed, it must be postmarked by October 1st, 2003. Anything postmarked on a later date will be considered a normal entry. Fantasist Enterprises is not responsible for lost, late, stolen, postage due, or misdirected mail. 7) Prizes: One First Prize Winner will receive $200.00. One Second Prize Winner will receive $150.00. One Third Prize Winner will receive $100.00. All Honorable Mention winners will receive .5 - 1.5 cents a word. All winning and honorably mentioned stories will be published in Fantastical Visions Vol. III. 8) Notification and Publication: All winners will be notified by mail by January 31st, 2004. Prizes will be mailed upon receipt of signed contract and final draft of story, as accepted by the editors. If contracts are not returned by March 1st, 2004, entry will be assumed to be withdrawn. Fantasist Enterprises reserves the right to not award prizes if no suitable entry is received. 9) Where to get the book: The book will become available in Summer or Fall 2004. Copies of the book can be purchased through The Fantasist Enterprises website, your local bookstore, or at your favorite online bookseller. Please check back at FE's main page at www.fantasistent.com for updates on availability of the new book. [http://fantasistent.com/CONTESTS/StoryConRules.html] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET GUIDELINES HERE & NOW, THE MAGAZINE OF URBAN FANTASY [Brit quarterly printzine, F/SF (spec fic) 200-6,000 wds. Pays 10 pounds/1000 wds (abt. 1-1/2 cents/wd) on pub. No E-mail subs. Will reply by E-mail.] Jenny Barber, Editor Here & Now c/o 3 Tamworth Close Lower Earley, Reading, Berkshire RG6 4EQ UK jenny@bradanpress.co.uk http://www.bradanpress.co.uk/ This is the bit where we tell you just what this is all about. We're after a whole bunch of things. Most of which are covered in the submissions guidelines section, but basically what we want is to collect together some fresh modern spec. fic., twist it in with some mind bending articles about the genre and other weirdness (which, of course, is all perfectly normal in this house), and then wrap it up in gorgeousness! Anything else you need to know, have a bounce around [the website] and if you're still baffled drop us an email! Jenny Barber and Helen Barber Where we're hiding... 3 Tamworth Close, Lower Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 4EQ Email: jenny@bradanpress.co.uk (Submissions, subscriptions, website) Email: helen@majorarcana.demon.co.uk (Advertising, anything else) [http://www.bradanpress.co.uk/about.htm] Submissions Guidelines FICTION We're after fun, entertaining stories with good solid storytelling. Modern day fantasy, tales of urban magic, magic realism, speculative fiction, comic fantasy, mythic, pagan, satire, reality benders, space opera, light sci-fi, mystery, crime & adventure, and whatever other sub genres you can think of so long as there's a trace of fantasy present. WARNING: we're allergic to anything that smells quasi-medieval unless it's exceptional and has absolutely no trace of cod- medieval language. Setting your fiction no earlier than the 1900s . . . present day & onwards is preferable. But if it's hot stuff, we're flexible. Stories can be from 200 - 6000 words long, standard manuscript presentation. Send accompanying SAE for reply & return of ms, or mark ms as disposable and provide email address/sae for reply. Please state if available in electronic format ie word/rtf etc. No email submissions. We pay 10 pounds per 1000 words. Payment on publication. FACTION We want features and interviews of authors & artists that cover the above themes and more. Also one offs or series ideas, whether they're media analysis, soap-box style, piss-takes, con reports or whatever . . . surprise us! We're particularly after pieces that make you think. We're also craving pieces that cover a milieu of other related subjects ie. mythology, shamanism, pop magic, ancient sites, paganism, strange art, spec-fic publishing both mainstream & indie, breaking genre conventions, historic fantasy, music with resonance, etc. 500-2000 words long, standard ms format. If providing own illustrations, please state clearly image sources for copyright purposes. Send accompanying SAE for reply & return of ms, or mark ms as disposable and provide email address/sae for reply. Please state if available in electronic format ie word/rtf etc. Proposals for feature series may be sent via email, as a part of the email, otherwise NO email submissions. We pay 10 pounds per 1000 words. ARTWORK See fiction guidelines for general style. We need black & white/greyscale/digital/photographic etc. art for internal illos. Full colour for the cover, and mini-pics to illustrate columns & other pieces. We tend to leave commissions 'til the last minute so please state what your average turnaround time is. Please supply photocopy samples of work & sae for reply or mark illo disposable, alternatively email over your web addy so we can see what you're about. We pay: Front page - 50 pounds Internal A4 - 25 pounds Internal half page or column length (1/3 & 1/2 A4 lengthways) - 10 pounds Mini-pics - 5 pounds per insertion. Send all submissions to: Jenny Barber, Here & Now, c/o 3 Tamworth Close, Lower Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 4EQ. (UK) [http://www.bradanpress.co.uk/subm.htm] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET INFORMATION DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES As of 20 July 2003 =Dreams and Nightmares= is open for submissions again. Editor David Kopaska-Merkel, who was in a bad automobile accident, must be feeling better. [www.ralan.com] ELLERY QUEEN =Ellery Queen='s editor is Ms. Janet Hutchings. [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=204&show_all_t opics=0, 28 Jul 03] FANTASTIC BOOK CLUB John Betancourt of Wildside Press said, "The www.fantasticbookclub.com site is operational now in a bare-bones way. The pro tem shopping cart is the one from Paypal. It will have to suffice till the real shopping cart is set up. "Anyone who wants a copy of =Manna from Heaven= can either pre-order it using PayPal, or wait till the mail-in option is available, or wait till the new! improved! shopping cart system is set up (hopefully not more than 2 or 3 weeks). "There are something like 75,000 mailing pieces promoting the new club going out in a few weeks, too, so...watch your mail boxes! You may get one!" [25 Jul 03] FANTASTIC STORIES OF THE IMAGINATION A writer on the =Speculations= Rumor Mill said, "Apparently =Fantastic Stories of the Imagination= is swamped with submissions. I queried them recently when a story of mine was (uncharacteristically) late coming back. It took a couple of attempts before I got a response, but eventually the editor told me he has about 750 ms to go through. He said I could expect a response on mine by summer's end. "That would have been a total wait of 6 mos.--three times longer than the response time stated in =Fantastic='s writer's guidelines. I queried again to see if I could submit the story simultaneously elsewhere while I waited for this editor's response. (The guidelines didn't mention sim subs at all.) Here again, my initial queries weren't answered. I didn't get a response until I advised the editor that I was going to go ahead and submit elsewhere, and if that was unacceptable, he should consider my story withdrawn. He wrote back: 'Consider the story rejected. It will be returned to you when I get to it.'" [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=291&show_all_t opics=0, 24 Jul 03] REALMS OF FANTASY Carina Gonzalez, Editorial Assistant at =Realms of Fantasy=, said, "The latest batch is in my hands. Watch your mailboxes because the sifting begins today!" [sff.publishing.realms-of-fantasy, 29 Jul 03] SCI FICTION A writer on the Rumor Mill said, "I do know from personal experience that Ellen Datlow [editor at =SCI FICTION=] prefers to be called Ellen. I once got an e-mail from her (subject heading: "Ack!") to that effect. But I'm not sure I would do so on a first submission." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=201&show_all_t opics=0, 29 Jul 03] SF RISING Simon Owens, editor of =SF Rising=, said, "I'm currently having some major problems with my computer and can't get to the submissions downloaded on my computer. I have a CD on the way that will be getting here on the 28th of July that will repair the damaged files so the final TOC will be delayed about a week. I originally was planning on having the final TOC by this Friday but now (as long as all goes well) it looks like it will be next Friday. I still have a few submissions saved on this computer so I'll hopefully be able to get a few submissions responded to before then." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=201&m=16672&sh ow_all_topics=0, 20 Jul 03] Mr. Owens later said, "Hurray! I finally got my computer working again. The first thing I'm going to do is download all the =SF Rising= files onto a disk, just in case something goes wrong again. I feel so relieved right now, you have no idea. Not only did I have at least half the =SF Rising= submissions on that computer, but over 100,000 words of my own writing as well." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=204&show_all_t opics=0, 24 Jul 03] STRANGE HORIZONS Jed Hartman, one of =Strange Horizons='s fiction editors, said to a person who asked when they'd be paid for poetry already posted on Strange Horizons's website, "Please do query. =SH= payment and contract for fiction and (I think) poetry should happen within a month after acceptance these days, usually well before pub.; for nonfiction it may be a little longer (their lead times tend to be shorter), but should still be within a month after publication. Some payments and contracts have gone out late recently because Susan's been on the road, but I'm pretty sure she's caught up now. So if you didn't receive payment or contract for something, you should definitely drop us a note." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=204&show_all_t opics=0, 21 Jul 03] Susan Marie Groppi, another fiction editor for =Strange Horizons=, said, "Just a quick note on the =Strange Horizons= contracts--I'm in charge of contracts processing, and the contracts fell a little behind in the last few months. "Oh, why not just drop the pretense of the 'quick note', I'll explain how it works. Each department sends author information sheets to me. Fiction and poetry tend to get the sheets to me several weeks before publication (at least), but articles and reviews tend to send them right around pub date. (I'm speaking in really broad generalities.) Around the first of the month, I take all the info sheets, process them, and send out the checks and contracts. The turnaround time between acceptance (or publication) and contract varies, then, depending on when the sheet came to me. "The process usually works smoothly, but everything got tangled up at the beginning of the summer. There were a lot of reasons for it, but by and large I got completely caught up at the beginning of July. The exception to this is inter-national contracts. We send International Reply Coupons with the contracts, to facilitate return of the signed copy, and the local post office here has been out of IRCs for a couple of weeks now (either that or the clerks are lying to me, but I choose not to believe that). I've been promised that they'll be available this week, and international (outside the United States) contracts will go out this week. "And I'm very very sorry for all the delays. I hadn't realized the extent to which my summer travel (I'm doing dissertation research) would disrupt the =Strange Horizons= payment process." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=204&show_all_t opics=0, 21 Jul 03] SWORD AND SORCERESS 21 Sherwood Smith, reporting from Mythcon, where she talked to Diana Paxson, said, "For those who have stories in the =S&S= antho, here's news. Diana has read all the stories, and divided them up but can't respond yet until DAW gives her a final wordcount. She has about five more really good stories than her contracted wordcount allowed, and wants to find out if she can get them in, at which time she can let everyone know what's what." [sff.people.sherwood, 26 Jul 03] WEIRD TALES Myke Cole (aka achillesva), one of the editorial assistants at =Weird Tales=, said, "Just got back from my monthly jaunt up to =Weird Tales=. We did some slush killing, and the next issue is assembled, but we are still VERY overstocked with purchased inventory and there is plenty of slush to go. "If you are waiting for an overdue reply, please query me at achillesva@mailblocks.com. We do our best to stay organized, but sometimes things do get lost. "Also, please think long and hard about the quality of your work and whether or not it's the right fit for =WT= before submitting. With our inventory currently so full, it's going to have to really blow us away for us to buy it right now." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=291&show_all_t opics=0, 26 Jul 03] When a writer left this note, "Achillesva, how can we chat with you...if we don't know your name?" He replied, "Oops! Sorry 'bout that. My name is Myke Cole." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=291&show_all_t opics=0, 28 Jul 03] WOULD THAT IT WERE A writer on the Rumor Mill said that she got a rejection from =Would That It Were= saying, " '...upon reviewing the comments of my assoc. editor, I realized that he is right: this sub is essentially fantasy, and we are a magazine of Victorian SF.'" [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/index.php?t=201&show_all_t opics=0, 24 Jul 03] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET LISTS PAULA FLEMING'S SF MARKET LIST Paula Fleming says, "My market list lives! http://home.att.net/~p.fleming/Sfmarket.html "At long last, I've dug myself out of the toxicity of my former day job and been able to update it. Because it's been over six months since the last update, making the list current was a lot of work, and I've probably made omissions and errors. (I know I still haven't added a bunch of relatively new anthology markets, for instance.) "Thus, if you spot something clearly wrong or missing, please feel free to let me know. I hope to do a mini-update, posting corrections, in a week or two. Thanks." [sff.publishing.market-report, 28 Jul 03] JEAN SEOK'S SPECULATIVE FICTION MARKETS http://www.jeanseok.com/markets/ MARY SOON LEE'S SPECULATIVE FICTION MARKETS http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mslee/mag.html ==End of the CALLIHOO Newsletter for 29 July 2003==