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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Tags: abject terror, agents, horror agents, horror fiction, horror writers, horror writing, literary agents, writers, writing 
No 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 No Comments » June 25th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“Cast Macabre is open to submissons for short length and flash fiction, and poetry. Stories longer than 4,000 words or so take over twenty minutes to read, which is about our limit, but if the story is good we may make an exception. Flash fiction (1000 words or less) will be read in our special [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: horror, horror fiction, horror podcast, horror writing, new market, podcast No Comments » 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 [...]
June 4th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, hey, e-media’s not that bad…) We’ve all heard it. Soon, we’ll be burying the bloated corpse of print media and reading all our newspapers online, and the internet will plug directly into our skulls to feed us mortgage refinancing commercials while we sleep, et cetera, et cetera… And, truly, it’s a horrifying thought. Every [...]
May 14th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
Or, Save Early, Save Often! Sometimes, I suspect my Microsoft Word is possessed by a foul-tempered Taiwanese gremlin. I’ve had too many experiences with glitchy text, overbearing grammar checkers, and tables that move about the page as though they’re self-aware and plotting my destruction. While the program is certainly far better than Corel WordPerfect or [...]
Posted in The Horrors of Horror Writing Tags: back up, backups, gremlins, horror, horror fiction, horror writing, lost data, lost writing, Microsoft Word, Papa Legba, writers, writing 5 Comments » April 23rd, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, is that an angry mob in your pocket, or…uh…) Writers have a lot of afflictions to suffer from. We have the commonly known Writer’s Block, the lesser known Writer’s Apathy (when we need to write but kinda don’t want to at the moment), Writer’s Carpel Tunnel, Writer’s Desksores (like bedsores), Writer’s Syphilis…okay, maybe that [...]
April 9th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, please, put the red pen down before someone gets hurt…) So, one thing I like to try to do with this feature—this lovely corner of the internet that’s been so graciously given to me to spew words on—is say thing things writers might not say in public. I like to write about things that, [...]
Posted in The Horrors of Horror Writing Tags: demon lover, editing, editors, editors are people too, fiction, gophers, horror, horror fiction, horror writing, rewriting, writers, writing 4 Comments » April 5th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“The Three-lobed Burning Eye is a magazine of speculative fiction published online two or three times per year. We’ve been online since 1999, and feature six stories per issue. At the end of each year, we publish an annual anthology in trade paperback. Payment to writers is $13, paid on publication, plus one contributor’s copy [...]
Posted in Anthologies, Markets, Online Zines Tags: horror, horror fiction, online zine, print, print anthology, short fiction, zine No Comments »
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