CALLIHOO Newsletter Market News for Writers of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Julia West, Editor Vol. 9, No. 11 15 January 2002 Website: http://www.sff.net/people/julia.west/CALLIHOO/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE News Publication Notes LTU&E Deadlines Market Information 3SF Black Gate Elysian Fiction XOddity ----------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS PUBLICATION NOTES E-CALLIHOOt ElizaBeth Gilligan has been busy! She's sold two novels in the Silken Magic series--=Magic's Silken Snare= and =The Silken Shroud=--to DAW, "Chasing Time" to the =Sorcerer's University= anthology, and "Off Key" to the =Magic Shop= anthology. Wow and congratulations, Lace! Ken Rand has (as always) been busy too. He sold reprint rights for his story "Good Dog" (which originally appeared in =Aboriginal Science Fiction=) to the =I Hate Aliens= anthology. Also, he's just signed a contract with his French publisher for "A Clockwork Sheriff" to appear in a new anthology, =Science & Sortileges=. Also on the French horizon, his short story "Refuge" has appeared in the French anthology =Lilith et ses Soeurs=. Then, on the nonfiction side, he just signed a contract for =Voices of Wonder--20 Interviews in Fantasy and Science Fiction= with Wildside Press. Impressively eclectic line-up, Ken! LIFE, THE UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING The Brigham Young University Science Fiction Symposium, Life, the Universe, and Everything, will take place February 21-23, 2002 in Provo, Utah. The organizers are aware that those dates are the last week of the Winter Olympics in Utah, but that was the only time they could get until the summer, and LtU&E has traditionally been held in February or March. Guests of Honor are Larry Niven and Jennifer Roberson (writing), Michael Collings (poetry), Christian Ready (science/academic) and (possibly) Marty Brenneis from Industrial Light and Magic (media). ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) WHY I HATE ALIENS ANTHOLOGY Deadline 1 Feb 2002 [Ebook antho, SF to 7500 wds. Pays 50% royalties, prorated based on length. Reprints okay. Mult subs encouraged. E-mail subs only. (Gls in Vol. 9 No. 9)] BYLINE SHORT STORY CONTEST Deadline 5 February 2002 [General fiction up to 5,000 words. Entry fee $5. Prizes: $70, $40, $25. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 5)] BEYOND THE LAST STAR ANTHOLOGY Deadline 1 March 2002 [Print anthology, SF/F/H, pays 5-10 cents/wd ($25 min, $300 max) on accept. No sim or mult subm, no reprints, E-mail subm okay but snailmail preferred. (GLs in Vol. 9 No. 8).] 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)] 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)] 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).] 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 INFORMATION 3SF Liz Holliday, editor of upcoming British science fiction magazine 3SF, says, "Okay, [I got] the go ahead on the magazine yesterday, and [they] said I could announce it publicly today. "We are not yet open for submissions. I mean this. I am months away from sorting out the writers' guidelines, but will let you know when I have them. At least some of the content of the first few issues will be commissioned, rather than from the slush pile. I already have some of the regular columnists lined up, and will announce who they are in due course. "We will have a sample issue available by the end of March 2002 for advertisers, distributors and retailers etc. Issue 1 will appear with all due fanfare sometime in the autumn, exact date to be announced." [sff.people.liz, 23 Nov 2001] Ms. Holliday goes on to say, "Some stuff I didn't make explicit before: "The magazine will be called 3SF, with a strapline that reads something along the lines of Science Fiction, Surreal Fantasy, Strange Facts (the last one may change each issue, in which case if we get stuck the default might end up as Special Features). "Bimonthly (we talked about starting off as a quarterly, but decided this was a bad move). "We have several columnists lined up (ditto the web person), but I'd rather wait till everything's in place till I make any announcements. "At least two of the columns will be open to contributions, and so will the interviews. Not the reviews. "At this time, we plan on covering media tie-ins, including spin-off books and possibly videos, but not games. That last may change, particularly if I can see it pulling in advertisers. (I know that's controversial, but look at it this way: if two pages of reviews can pull in even one regular full page ad, we can use it to fund =four= extra pages of magazine... giving readers an extra page of fiction.)" [sff.people.liz, 28 Nov 2001] BLACK GATE John O'Neill, editor of print fantasy magazine Black Gate, says, ". . .we posted a sizeable preview of the contents of our Winter 2002 issue [#3] at www.blackgate.com. The preview lists the complete table of contents, as well as samples of some of the interior art and lengthy excerpts from four stories: "Iron Joan," by ElizaBeth Gilligan "The Knight of the Lake," by Elaine Cunningham "Three Nights in Big Rock City," by Jon Hansen "The Haunting of Cold Harbour," by Todd McAulty "Over the next week or so we will be adding additional artwork, excerpts, and reviews to the website as well." [sff.publishing.black-gate-magazine, 8 Jan 02] ELYSIAN FICTION Jim Bailey, editor of =Elysian Fiction=, says, "I've cleared out August and September submissions now, either rejecting them, outright accepting them (only a couple so far), or asking to hold them for another couple weeks while I get caught up (and sending fresh notes to those I've asked for holds from previously). That "only" leaves October, November, December, and of course January. "I've broken down the task into month-by-month projects to make it easier to handle (and not so scary). It seems to take 2-3 days per month's backlog to read the stories and send the notes, so at least now I have a better idea how long it will really take to get caught up. "The breakdown: October: 21 stories; 114,000 words November: 27 stories; 126,000 words December: 44 stories; 176,000 words (new monthly record!) January (so far): 15 stories; 55,000 words "If I can particularly get Oct and Nov out of the way, then I'm at least back within the realm of reasonable return times as I work to get issue #2 out the door." [sff.publishing.elysian-fiction, 16 Jan 2002] XODDITY During a discussion of =XOddity=, a writer on sff.net said, "They [the editors of =XOddity=] accepted a story two years ago. Then they seemed to vanish. Then they sent a letter indicating they were getting organized. Now they seem to have vanished again. I wouldn't worry about them." Sounds like a market to cross off your list. [sff.writing.response-times, 11 Jan 2002] ==End of the CALLIHOO Newsletter for 15 January 2002==