CALLIHOO Newsletter Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Vol. 9, No. 14 5 February 2002 Website: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue Deadlines Anthology Imaginings anthology (gls) Contest Matter of Time Contest(gls) Market Guidelines FutureShocks (gls) SFReader.com (gls) Market Information 3SF Artemis Magazine Black Gate Malefica ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) Deathlings.com "Family Secrets" contest Deadline 15 March 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)] Who Killed the Easter Bunny? Anthology Deadline 16 March 2002 [Web antho, H, etc. to 5,000 wds, nothing said about pay. E-mail subs only. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 12)] Writers of the Future, 2nd quarter 2002 Deadline 31 March 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 Flash Fiction Contest Deadline 5 April 2002 [Flash fiction under 1000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $60, $30, $20. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 5)] Matter of Time Contest Deadline 19 April 2002 [Contest, time-themed story to 5,000 wds, undergrad students only. No E-mail subs, prize $2,500 and pub in literary journal Limestone. 2 HMs published. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 14)] ByLine New-Talent Short Story Contest Deadline 4 May 2002 [Open to any writer who never has won a cash prize in any ByLine fiction category. Maximum 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $50, $35, $25, $15. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 5)] 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).] 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)] Low Port Deadline 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)] Mota: An Annual Anthology of Fine Fiction Deadline 1 Nov 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)] ----------------------------------------------------------------- ANTHOLOGY IMAGININGS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF LONG SHORT FICTION [Print anthology, SF/F 8,000-15,000 wds. Pays $950 + 10% royalties. Snailmail subs only. Deadline 15 Jun 02. No reprints.] Edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido Produced by Albe'-Shiloh Inc. Imaginings Keith R.A. DeCandido, Editor PO Box 4976 New York, NY 10185-4976 E-mail (no submissions): imaginings@albeshiloh.com URL: www.albeshiloh.com/imaginings =Imaginings= is a new anthology that will feature the best SF & fantasy novelettes in the field--and that means we need to hear from YOU. The ten stories that will appear in Imaginings when it's published by Pocket Books in the summer of 2003 will be taken from an open call for submissions between now and 15 JUNE 2002. Guidelines Deadline: 15 June 2002. Address to send stories to: Imaginings, PO Box 4976, New York, NY 10185-4976. Any story sent via any other method than posted mail to this PO box will be rejected unread. Length: Between 8000 and 15,000 words. Any story that is less than 8000 words or more than 15,000 words will be rejected unread. Format: Typed/printed on white paper, double spaced, one-inch margins on all four sides. Each page must be numbered and include the author's name. SASE: Each submission must include a self-addressed stamped envelope. Any story that does not include a SASE will be rejected unread. Cover letter: This must include full contact information for the author--name, address, and e-mail address--and the story's word count. Type of story: Stories must be original--NO reprints will be accepted. Stories must fall into the genre category of science fiction or fantasy. (Horror stories will be looked at, but only if they have SF and/or fantasy elements.) Payment: A flat rate of $950 per story (approximately 9.5› per word). Each author will also receive 10% of any royalty money received by Albe'-Shiloh Inc. for sales of the book. All of ASI's royalties will be split evenly among the ten contributors. Acceptances and rejections: Only ten stories will be accepted for the book. No story will be accepted for publication prior to 1 July 2002. (Rejections, however, may come at any time.) FOR MORE INFORMATION: e-mail (queries only): imaginings@albeshiloh.com check the FAQ at www.albeshiloh.com/imaginings or send a SASE to the above-listed PO box [sff.publishing.market-reports, 2 Feb 2002] ----------------------------------------------------------------- CONTEST MATTER OF TIME [Contest, time-themed story to 5,000 wds, undergrad students only. No E-mail subs, deadline 19 Apr 2002, prize $2,500 and pub in literary journal Limestone. 2 HMs published.] Keeping Time, Spending Time, Wasting Time, Passing Time, Traveling Through Time... The ideaFestival Institute and the Department of English at the University of Kentucky solicit your story about or involving the concept of time for a short story contest open to all undergraduate students in the United States. Bobbie Ann Mason, UK's first University Writer In Residence, will be the final judge. The competition is part of the 2002 ideaFestival with its theme of a "Matter of Time" (www.ideafestival.com) to be held in Lexington, KY on September 18-21. Guidelines: * One unpublished story (maximum 5,000 words) per undergraduate student; * Limited to the first 1,000 entries; * No entries will be returned; * All correspondence by e-mail * Submission deadline April 19, 2002; * Stories should be in hard copy, with one original and one copy; and * Submission address: Short Story Contest, Department of English, 1215 Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027. The winning story will receive a prize of $2,500 and be published in the literary journal Limestone. Two honorable mention stories will be also published. Winners will be announced by mid-July and also be invited to participate in the 2002 ideaFestival in September. For questions or additional information, please contact Dr. Gregory A. Waller, Chair of the University of Kentucky Department of English, at story@pop.uky.edu [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/topic178.htm, 23 Jan 02] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET GUIDELINES FUTURESHOCKS [Webzine, SF/F/H 1,000 to 10,000 wds. Pays 1 cent/wd. to 5,000 wds, 1/2 cent/wd. above that. E-mail subs only. No sim subs.] Rob Young, Editor E-mail submissions: rob@granites.net URL: http://www.futureshocks.com/ Submission Guidelines =FutureShocks= publishes exclusively online only. We are a science fiction, fantasy and horror publication that operates solely in cyberspace. We are looking for strongly plotted, character driven fiction 1,000 to 10,000 words. We also dabble in Non-Fiction articles regarding future environments, space exploration, and other planetary life that might be. Sorry no U.F.O. encounters are accepted. So please keep Uncle Bubba's trip in the saucer safe in your memory banks. Submissions must be sent by electronic means, email is a must. The submission must be in Microsoft Word format as a .doc file. Please do not add themes, fancy page breaks, or thunderous font, keep it simple, double spaced with a clear ending and beginning. You can send submissions as a .txt file (Text File), but this is the only variation that is accepted. Due to the amount of time it causes for us to change and format the submission this is the only way we can accept the documents. If possible please compress the submission using Winzip on a Microsoft Windows machine, if you are operating a Macintosh, a utility called Stuffit works as well. Zipping the file frees up a lot of space in our email boxes. We do not like simultaneous submissions, and usually result to rejecting these based on the complications that can arise from it. Response to a submission is usually 3 to 6 weeks after receiving it. Please, do not continue to submit a work after two attempts thinking we haven't received it. January 2, 2002 by Rob - So I have been doing quite a bit of thinking about the subject, and of course I had to go consult the several bosses who seem to run my checkbook these days. =FutureShocks= has been blessed with an understanding backer, being me, of course. To start paying for published work puts that much more of a burden on the overall status of the site, but be that as it may, we cannot compete with other e-zines who do pay authors for their material. I think, also, there was [sic] several subliminal hints thrown back and forth between the authors of last month and myself about the lingering question of payment. Until the site becomes what it will eventually become (that is of course total domination of the internet and the erasure of Mickey Mouse as the symbol for American entertainment), I can't justify non-payment for exposure of an author's work. Therefore, effective as of February 1, 2002 the following will take effect: 1) =FutureShocks= will pay for fiction and non-fiction at the rate of 1 cent a word up to 5,000 words, thereafter 1/2 cent a word to finale for FNASR (First North American Serial Rights). [http://www.futureshocks.com/] SFREADER.COM, SPECULATIVE FICTION BOOK REVIEW RESOURCE [Webzine, SF/F/H to 8,000 words. Pays $20 flat rate ($10 for reprints). Reprints okay. No E-mail, mult, or sim subs.] SFReader.com Dave Felts, Editor 3645 Chatam Drive Palm Harbor FL, 34684 http://www.sfreader.com/fiction_main.asp Fiction Guidelines Type: I'm looking for character-driven science fiction, fantasy, horror, or any combination of these you can pull off. I'm more into characters than tech and more into atmosphere than gore. I've nothing against adult language and situations, but I'm not publishing erotic fiction. If sex and profanity are integral to your story, fine, but don't use it for the sake of using it. I'll look at reprints, but please query first with date and the publication history of the story you want to submit. Length: One of the advantages of the Internet is no space limits, but I'm fully aware that reading from a computer monitor can be hard on the eyes. That being the case, I'm setting a limit of 8,000 words. Not totally firm, but you'd have to write a zinger for me to take anything much longer. If you're going to exceed this, please query first. No bottom limit, but be forewarned-- short-shorts or vignettes are hard to do and I'm ever harder to sell one to because of my preference for character-driven fiction. Payment: A flat rate $20 (regardless of length) for first rights on acceptance (i.e. return of the emailed contract). A flat rate $10 (regardless of length) for reprint rights on acceptance (i.e. return of the emailed contract). Rights Purchased: First Time Electronic Rights (or Reprint Rights if it's been published before, in either print or online). I'll archive your story on site for 1 year. After that, send a request and I'll remove it from the site. Reply: My goal is to reply in under four weeks. If you haven't heard anything by six weeks, feel free to query by letter or email. Format: I know it's an ezine, but sorry, no email submissions. Please mail a hardcopy of your story in standard manuscript format (check out manuscript preparation guidelines at www.sfwa.org/writing/writing.htm if you don't know what this is). Please, no multiple submissions (more than one story per envelope) and no simultaneous submissions (more than one magazine at a time with the same story). Enclose an SASE for a reply. No SASE, no reply (I will reply to foreign submission via email to save on international postage). Disposable manuscripts are fine. Cover letters are optional, but preferred. Address: Send all submissions to: SFReader.com, Dave Felts, Editor, 3645 Chatam Drive, Palm Harbor FL, 34684 Author Interview Guidelines Length: Max 2500 words firm Payment: 1 cent per word on acceptance for first rights, 1/2 cent per word on acceptance for reprint rights. Subject: Interviews with a speculative fiction author (with a preference for published book-length authors). Read some of Ken Rand's interviews in =Talebones= to see what I'm looking for, or some of the interviews Bobbi Sinha-Morrey does for =Maelstrom SF=. Try to get past How do you get your ideas, When do you write, What music do you listen to while you write, Are you a touch typer, etc. Rights: First Time Electronic or Reprint rights. Please note that all Author Interviews will be archived on the site indefinitely. Address: Same as for fiction. Articles Length: Max 2500 words firm Payment: 1 cent per word on acceptance for first rights, 1/2 cent per word on acceptance for reprint rights Subject: Anything related to speculative fiction and the craft of writing speculative fiction. No Con reports please. Rights: First Time Electronic or Reprint rights. Please note that all Articles will be archived on the site indefinitely. Address: Same as for fiction. [http://www.sfreader.com/sub_guide.asp] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET INFORMATION 3SF Liz Holliday, editor of new British printzine =3SF=, says, "Just now the first proofs for 3SF arrived (the sample issue, that is). Very different from Odyssey--cool and stylish. Not perfect, but a good place to start. "Meanwhile, we are searching hard for someone to sell ad space for us on a commission-only basis (plus expenses). They need to be in the UK, though eventually we'll be wanting someone in the US, too." [sff.people.liz, 4 Feb 02] ARTEMIS MAGAZINE A writer on the Rumor Mill said, "Just a note on =Artemis Magazine=. Yesterday, I queried Ian Randal Strock on a story sent in early September and got a really prompt reply noting that he hasn't had time to do any reading since Sept 11th, but that he hopes to get started again soon." [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/topic291.htm, 4 Feb 02] BLACK GATE John O'Neill, editor of =Black Gate= magazine, says, "Yes, we do take re-submits. And no, we don't specifically require they be cleared in advance. If I've taken the time to comment at length on a story, it (usually) signals that in my opinion the story has enough worth to merit it. I do ask that authors be guided by my comments, however... if I ask to see something new from you, it usually means I think your time would be better spent on a new tale than reworking this one. And please don't bother to re-submit to us unless you've substantially re-worked the tale to be closer to our requirements. "Re-submits are not given any special preference in the queue, and are read in the same order along with other manuscripts. And I do appreciate a short cover note going over the changes." [sff.publishing.black-gate-magazine, 4 Feb 02] MALEFICA A writer on sff.net says, "=Malefica= is a new ezine looking for short (1000 - 1500) horror or dark fantasy stories. They are paying 2-3 cents per word Canadian and accept reprints. The email is: malefica@reinette.com Website is: http://malefica.reinette.com [sff.writing.response-times, 31 Jan 02] Janice Statham, Editor of =Malefica=, says, "=Malefica= needs horror and dark fantasy fiction between 1000 and 1500 words. Longer works will be considered, but payrates remain firm at a flat rate of $30 Canadian per story, or approximately 2 - 3 cents Canadian per word, paid on acceptance. "For this amount, =Malefica= purchases First Electronic or Electronic Reprint Rights. Stories will be published online and archived on the =Malefica= website for a minimum of one year. Archival rights for an additional length of time may be requested, but remain at the author's discretion. "Send all submissions in the body of a plain text e-mail to malefica@reinette.com. Please remember to put MALEFICA SUBMISSION, your story title, and your name in the subject line. Should you have any questions, they may be directed to malefica@reinette.com as well. "Please note: While I am open to looking at all types of horror and dark fantasy, I am especially interested in new takes on traditional monsters, as well as erotic and historical works." =Malefica= is located at http://malefica.reinette.com [http://www.speculations.com/rumormill/topic178.htm, 29 Jan 2002] ==End of the CALLIHOO Newsletter for 5 February 2002==