September 24th, 2010 
Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, why won’t my inner voices just shut up?) I’ve got a book coming out. It’s small press, and its only loosely horrific so I’m not plugging it here, but suffice it to say the experience has taught me quite a lot about publishing novels. (I’m working out all my industry naiveté before my Great [...]
September 10th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
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 [...]
September 4th, 2010 Jessica Brown Northern Frights Publishing has signed a contract with Author Ken La Salle to publish his Zombie/Romance novel Wormfood Island slated for Summer 2011. This marks NFP’s first foray into single author projects. Wormfood Island is the story of a family on the verge of collapse who win a trip to a hedonism resort. Hoping for [...]
August 27th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
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, [...]
August 13th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
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 [...]
July 30th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, is that 90,000 words in your pocket, or are you just screwing with my head?) I am currently formatting a novel for submission. I want to die. No, seriously—it would be preferable to lay naked, bound and baking under a hot desert sun, with starving vultures pecking incessantly at my midsection in order to [...]
July 16th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
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. [...]
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3 Comments » July 2nd, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, the Horrors of the Form Rejection Revisited) I don’t send simultaneous submissions. There are those who will tell you, yes, even though the guidelines say “no simultaneous submissions” professional writers do it anyway—and that’s fine if they want to say that. That’s fine if “professional writers” want to send out the same story to [...]
June 25th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“theDF_underground welcomes submissions of fiction and nonfiction by horror and dark fiction writers from all walks of life. Stop right there. This part is important: theDF_underground editors provide review and response-time preference to members of the underground_Community. No two ways about it: our goal is to build a living, breathing community around the genre as [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines, The Cult Tags: forum, horror, horror fiction, horror writers, horror writers forum, online zine, zine 1 Comment » June 11th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, hey, maybe e-media IS that bad…) So, when we last left our intrepid heroes, brand new USB ports were being installed directly into our foreheads. Now that we’re equipped with the latest technology and a new love for electronic media, we’re all going to rush right off and self-publish our books, so we can [...]
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