CALLIHOO Newsletter Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Vol. 9, No. 15 12 February 2002 Website: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue News Writers' Seminar Deadlines Market Guidelines DAW Books (gls) Market Information Darkling Plain Dark Regions (hiatus) Elysian Fiction Time-Warner ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS WRITERS' SEMINAR A one-day writers' seminar has been set for Saturday, June 8, in Sandy, Utah. Conducted by local writer Ken Rand of West Jordan, the seminar will help new and advanced writers of fiction and nonfiction to write better, write faster, and earn more. The seminar is based on a school curriculum Rand wrote as well as on talks he makes at conventions and workshops throughout the country. Rand, author of a dozen books, 100 short stories, 200 humor columns, and countless articles and interviews, brings more than 30 years experience as a reporter for print and radio, a PR "flack," and a freelancer to his teaching. Rand says writers create in four stages: Coming up with ideas, writing, editing, and marketing. His all-day seminar explores these concepts in depth with a lecture, hand-outs, articles, references, a suggested reading list, and copies of his book =The 10% Solution: Self-editing for the Modern Writer=. Rand also offers attendees personal "tech support" after the seminar. The seminar will be held Saturday, June 8, at the Best Western Cottontree Inn, 10695 South Auto Mall Dr., Sandy. To register ($60), or for more information, contact Ken Rand, 1498 Bora Bora Dr., West Jordan, UT 84084. E-mail KRand27577@aol.com. Phone 801-568-1666. Details about the seminar as well as Rand's biography and bibliography are on his website at www.sfwa.org/members/Rand. Applicants must register before June 1. Space may be limited, so interested writers are urged to contact Rand soonest. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 $100 on pub. Mult subs and reprints okay. (GLs in Vol. 9, No. 9)] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET GUIDELINES DAW BOOKS [Novels, SF/F 80,000 wds and up. No agent necessary. No sim subs. RT to 3 mo and over.] DAW Books Peter Stampfel, Submission Editor 375 Hudson Street New York, NY 10014 daw@penguinputnam.com http://www.dawbooks.com/ Submissions Guidelines We publish science fiction and fantasy novels. We do not want short stories, short story collections, novellas, or poetry. The average length of the novels we publish varies but is almost never less than 80,000 words. (To estimate the length of your manuscript, you may want to use the technique below.) Please do not submit handwritten material. Manuscripts must be typewritten or letter-quality computer generated. Use a dark ribbon. Clear photocopies are acceptable. The manuscript should be on 8" x 11" good white paper, double-spaced, with at least 1" wide margins all around. Please use only one side of the page, number your pages consecutively, and put the title of your novel at the top of each page. Very important: Please type your name, address and phone number in the upper right hand corner of the first page of your manuscript. Right under this, please put the length of your manuscript in number of words. We publish first novels if they are of professional quality. A literary agent is not required for submission. We will not consider manuscripts that are currently on submission to another publisher. Be sure to include a postage paid envelope for the return of the manuscript, if it is not found acceptable. You are entitled to Fourth Class rates for literary manuscripts -- ask at your local post office. If you prefer to send your work by First Class Mail and wish it returned the same way, be sure to include sufficient postage, or a check or money order to cover the postage costs. Canadian return postage can only be sent via Canadian Postal Money Order in US$. If you are mailing your manuscript from outside the U.S.A. or Canada, postage payment may only be made via American Express Money Order in US$, or by a check in US$ payable from a New York City bank. (Please do not enclose International Postal Coupons, except as postage for a single letter. IPCs cost approximately $3.50 each, but are only valid for 55 cents postage). Never send cash through the mail. It may require up to three months or more for our editors to review a submission and come to a decision. If you want to be sure we have received your manuscript, please enclose a stamped, self-addressed postcard which we will return when your manuscript is logged-in. It is not necessary for you to register or copyright your work before publication -- it is protected by law as long as it has not been published. When published, we will copyright the book in the author's name and register that copyright with the Library of Congress. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR NEW WRITERS: HOW TO GET THE WORD COUNT OF A MANUSCRIPT * Count the words in 10 lines and divide the total number of words by 10. * Count the lines on an average page. * Multiply the total number of lines for the sample full page by the approximate word count for one line. This gives you the word count for one page. * Then multiply this total count for the words on one page by the total number of pages in your manuscript. This is the total length of your manuscript in words. Please put this number on page one of your manuscript, right under your name [and] address. To check the accuracy of your count, please repeat this process twice. * Please send manuscripts to Peter Stampfel, Submission Editor. [http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/daw/sub.htm] ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARKET INFORMATION DARKLING PLAIN Dave Cox, editor of =Darkling Plain=, says, "The rumors of DP's death are slightly exaggerated. . . . In fact, I'm picking up DP #2 this afternoon and will ship it out to readers and contributors over the coming week. Please do spread the word where convenient. The real story is that I started law school last fall and have had little time for anything else. I have plans to do a 3rd issue and more, but it's realistic to think it might be a little while until I can get going again . . . the earliest would be this summer." [sff.writing.response-times, 7 Feb 02] DARK REGIONS A writer on sff.net received this reply from =Dark Regions= magazine, "We apologize for not reading your fiction or poetry at this time, but we regretfully inform you that =Dark Regions Magazine= has suspended publication at this time, and will be going on hiatus until further notice. We thank you for your support and submitting to =Dark Regions Magazine=, and look forward to the opportunity of reading your work again sometime in the future." [sff.publishing.market-reports, 8 Feb 02] ELYSIAN FICTION Jim Baily, editor of =Elysian Fiction=, says, "I posted an update on the site (a note on the front page pointing to full note on guidelines page: http://www.elysianfiction.com/gls.htm). "Status Update: Feb 5th, 2002: First off, I'd like to apologize to both readers and writers who have been so patiently waiting for either Issue #2 or a reply to their submission. I let myself get *way* too far behind, and that just made it even harder to get caught up. "The good news is that things *are* progressing, and that once I am caught up, I'll have a rapid-fire set of issue releases coming over the next few months that should get =Elysian Fiction= back on schedule. Issue #2's lineup is set, with contracts and payments sent. Issue #3 is approximately half full at this point, and once I finish reading the backlog of submissions, I'll be able to fill out the table of contents for #3, and fill #4 as well. I estimate that reading the remaining stories, choosing the acceptances, and replying to everybody, will take about 2 weeks. "So far, I've read and made definite yes-or-no replies to every story submitted before July 31st, 2001. I've also replied to every story submitted before September 30th, with several stories from the August 1st thru September 30th on hold. If you submitted before Oct 1st and haven't heard from me at all, something got lost somewhere, so feel free to query. "I've also completed reading everything from October 1st through November 30th, but have not yet replied to most of these. Now I only have December and January's submissions to read, and then I can make the final decisions for issues #3 and #4. Everything coming in February 1st onward will be considered for #5 and beyond, but I will read and make first responses to any I receive between Feb 1st and when I get caught up before I move on to production of #2. Thereafter, I will maintain a weekly reading schedule to keep response times down to a reasonable period. Believe me, I've learned my lesson about keeping up with the slush pile! "Finally, here is the tentative release schedule for the next few issues. Issue #2: Late February Issue #3: Late March Issue #4: Late April/Early May Issue #5: Early-Mid June Issue #6: September 1st (actually, just before I leave for WorldCon) "Thereafter, =Elysian Fiction= should get back to the quarterly schedule as outlined in the guidelines. "Again, I apologize for the delays, and want to thank everybody for their patience and support. With the lineups that are developing for the next few issues, I hope it will have been worth the wait." [sff.publishing.elysian-fiction, 5 Feb 02] TIME-WARNER Betsy Mitchell, editor at Time-Warner, says, "We're not running a First Novel Contest every year; it's very time-intensive, as you might imagine. We received nearly 1,000 entries for each of the previous contests. "I forecast announcing a new one sometime during 2002, after the winner of the second Contest--=Warchild= by Karin Lowachee--comes out next April. I'll be sure to publicize it well, when we lay the plans." [sff.publishing.time-warner, 10 Sep 01] ***************************************************************** * "I love you sons of bitches. You're the only ones with guts * * enough to really care about the future, who really notice * * what machines do to us, what wars do to us, what cities do * * to us, what tremendous misunderstandings, mistakes, * * accidents, and catastrophes do to us. You're the only ones * * zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, * * over the fact that we are right now determining whether the * * space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be * * Heaven or Hell." * * --The drunken hero of Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. * * Rosewater, who blunders into a convention of science * * fiction writers * ***************************************************************** ==End of the CALLIHOO Newsletter for 12 February 2002==