(Or, you can have my auxiliary verbs when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers.) Today we’re gonna get a little English Geeky up in here. We’re gonna to use spooky words like conjugation and modality and, at the end I’m gonna make you diagram a sentence. Just kidding! I know we’d all rather claw our own [...]
Posts Tagged ‘horror writing’
The Horror of the Passive Voice
May 19th, 2012 
Lorna D. Keach Author Spotlight – Deb Eskie
January 10th, 2012 Lorna D. Keach Deb Eskie is a resident of Massachusetts and has an M.Ed in creative arts education. With a background in women’s studies, her focus as a writer is to expose the woman’s experience through unsettling tales that highlight the dilemma of sexual repression and oppression. By combining the genres of feminist and horror/science-fiction she aims to [...]
Posted in Author Spotlight, Interviews 
Tags: author, Deb Eskie, feminist horror, horror, horror fiction, horror writing, interview, Pill Hill Press, published, short stories, writer, writers, writing 
No Comments »Mixer Publishing
May 29th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach “Mixer Horror likes stories that play with the typical conventions and motifs of horror, while still using the power of the genre to scare the reader in ways that interrogate our knowledge of ourselves and the social constructions that supposedly keep us safe. Mixer Horror, in general, is not big on supernatural horror–please don’t send [...]
Posted in Book Publishers, Markets, Online Zines Tags: anthology, Book Publishers, ebook, ebooks, horror markets, horror writing, novel, online zine No Comments »One Buck Horror
April 9th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach “One Buck Horror is looking for the best in horror fiction from established and up-and-coming writers. We pay professional rates for short stories of 3000 words or less. Selected stories will appear in eBook releases to be sold through Amazon.com, Google Books, and other online outlets. We are also accepting submissions for cover art to [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: ebook, ebooks, horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writing, Markets, online zine, short stories No Comments »Pulp Carnivale
April 9th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach “We are currently looking for stories in the following genres: fantasy gangster detective/mystery science fiction adventure/exotic travels westerns romance horror/occult Pulp Carnivale is publishing 3 types of short story: Flash Fiction: Stories of 1,000 words or less, published daily as a “News Flash”. Short Story: Stories of differing longer lengths, around 5,000 words or less. [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writing, Markets, short stories No Comments »Open Magazine
February 19th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach “Science Ficiton, Horror, Fantasy, Weird, Bizarro, Cyber Punk 25,000 words or less – Reprints ok, Simultaneous submissions – ok Multiple submissions accepted - Yes Pays $10 plus 3 Contributors Copies Open Magazine owns one time print and digital rights. One month after publication all rights go back to the writer.” First issue out in March, [...]
Thaumatrope
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“Guidelines: Tell us a Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror story in under 140 characters. Other than that, we’re just looking for good stories. Rates: We pay $1.20 per submission entry—which equates to a minimum payment of approximately 5¢/word (considering a “word” to be 6 characters). While we technically pay professional rates for fiction we DO [...]
The Red Penny Papers
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“We’re open to submissions from January 15-February 28, 2011. The Red Penny Papers publishes webfiction that celebrates the spirit of the penny dreadful, the sensationalist and gothic novel, and their more modern successor, the pulp magazine– the catch is that it must have a dark speculative bent. We want stories of the underbelly: opium dens [...]
Posted in Magazines, Markets Tags: horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writers, horror writing, paying, print, short stories, writers, writing No Comments »Horror Garage
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“HORROR GARAGE combines the best in original dark fiction with the finest in horrific rock n’ roll. Think HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, PSYCHOMANIA, and DEATH RACE 2000: B-movie babes, screamin’ skulls, bug-eyed creeps, and gallons of blood. 1. DO NOT submit to HORROR GARAGE (or any similar venue) without being completely familiar with it. Take [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writers, horror writing, short stories, writers, writing, zine 1 Comment »2011: The Year of the Anthology?
January 7th, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
I’ve been pouring over market listings for going on eleven years now (since waaaaay back in the ol’ days of 2000, when one had to walk both ways up hill in the snow just for a chance to look at a Writer’s Market copy at the local library.) Now, I have to say–never before have [...]
