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The Cult – Ten Horrible Writer Habits

Nina Prommer really knows what it's like to have a keyboard nibble your fingers. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/typewriter-with-a-difference-nina-prommer.html

The start of a new year is the season of self-deprecation, reserved as a time to look back at all those miserable things we did for the last 365 days—things like binge-eating, smoking, all those murdered neighbors, nail-biting—and then forcefully berate ourselves for being such awful people. Yay! Another grand tradition is to adamantly promise [...]

Anthology-o-Rama: Upcoming Oct/Nov Deadlines

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Hey, Anthologists! Get out your Anthologizers, because here is a quick-look list of some tantalizing horror anthologies for October-November 2012! Compiled here are a few markets we’ve listed recently and a few that may have yet to pop up. Peruse these foreboding tomes carefully dear writer. Next week may be a great time for polishing [...]

Reviewer List – Horror and Dark Fiction

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Looking for a reviewer can make a writer want to throw themselves into the path of a stampeding zombie horde—sometimes it’s just easier to let Bubba eat your brain. Well, writers, whip out your shotguns and search for your shovels (and get out your good begging kneepads) because here’s a starter list of some of [...]

New Short Story Markets!

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It’s been a tad slow around here as of late, and I blame the upcoming festive holiday season trying to kill us all. (I nearly strangled to death on a cord of Jingle Bells the other day when a Menorah jumped out into my path trying to trip me so the Secular Humanist Holly Wreath [...]

The Cult – Now Accepting Novel Submissions!

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It’s November, and that means the hotly debated NaNoWriMo is in full swing, and–whaddya know–some pretty cool markets are currently open for novel submissions. Here’s a quick-glance list (and certainly not an exhaustive one) that is chock-full of publishers who may just want your novel right now. Y’know, if it’s finished. Holy Crapballs some Pro [...]

The Cult – A little gore with your Linkdump?

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I should be writing right now, but instead I’m scouring the internet for all manner of interesting news and links that appeal to the more grisly, literary side of us all. It’s like Dark Roasted Blend! Only bloodier: UK marks its gore with it’s own official Murdermap 3D Bookjackets: coming soon to a novel near [...]

Harper Collins Does Something!

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So, I was gonna do a post on the Horrors of Writer’s Block, but I couldn’t think of anything to write. (Ha!) Instead, I will share some news about Harper Collins merging it’s scifi/fantasy/horror imprint (because horror always comes last in that lineup, Grr!) from Harper Eos to Harper Voyager. What this means to the [...]

2009 Shirley Jackson Award Winners

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The Shirley Jackson is a new award established in 2007 for, “…outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.” Check out the rules for the award here, and check out 2009′s winners announced last month at Readercon 21: NOVEL Winner: BIG MACHINE, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau) Finalists: Last Days, [...]

Now Accepting Submissions – Penguin Group!

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It seems a Bizarro World is beginning to emerge in the realm of the megacorp publishing houses these days—Simon & Schuster is “reorganizing,” Dorchester’s completely dropped their mass-market model for print-on-demand, and now, like a gaunt rider on a pale horse, Penguin is taking unsolicited submissions. For three months. Honestly, I’m a little wary of [...]

Now Accepting Submissions – Horror Agents

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Agents! Ah! Flee in terror, flee in terror! No, really, looking for an agency can be really scary–and really frustrating for horror writers. So, in response to this nail-biting, heart-stopping nightmare, I have compiled a short list of some agents who are actually, truly interested in representing horror and are open to submissions right now. [...]