October 1st, 2010 
Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, Why don’t we just put the Writer’s Market down for a bit and relax?) I collect old college Literature textbooks. It’s a wretched habit, because it means there’s now 70 copies of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” in my house—but, then again, none of my habits are particularly healthy. Still, this week, I stumbled [...]
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 17th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“Title: The Mothman Files Publisher: Woodland Press Editor: Michael Knost Format: Trade Paperback Payment: five-cents per word (upon publication) plus contributor copy. No reprints Story length: Up to 3000 words No multiple or simultaneous subs Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2011 E-mail submissions to: themothmanfiles at yahoo dot com We will accept .doc attachments only. I [...]
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Tags: anthology, horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writers, horror writing, new market, print, print anthology 
No Comments » September 17th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“Vestal Review now publishes its print issues twice a year in a perfect-bound edition. Some of the content is available on the Web. We welcome your submissions, but please read our guidelines first. We don’t read new submissions in December, January, June and July. All submissions sent during this time will be deleted. Because of the [...]
September 17th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“10Flash publishes genre flash fiction stories — fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense or slipstream — between 800 and 1,000 words. I may fudge on the bottom number, from time to time, but the top limit is firm. Each quarterly issue will feature ten stories, all written around a common prompt. These prompts are not intended [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: flash, horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writers, horror writing, pro payment, writers, writing No Comments » 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 [...]
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 20th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“Dark Moon Digest Is looking for quality short stories for Issues 2 and 3. Any genre will be accepted as long as it is in the horror genre. There are no deadlines to this contest as submissions will be selected for future issues of this quarterly publication, so submit at your leisure. This contest is [...]
Posted in Contests, Markets Tags: dark moon digest, horror, horror contest, horror writing, short story contest, writing 6 Comments » 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. [...]
Posted in The Cult Tags: abject terror, agents, horror agents, horror fiction, horror writers, horror writing, literary agents, writers, writing 3 Comments »
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