July 8th, 2010 
Lorna D. Keach 
“At last, Kfir and I are starting to see the (day)light at the end of the tunnel! We’ve accepted a number of excellent stories and are requesting revision on a couple more. However, we’d like to get, oh, two or three more standout works in the 2,500-5,000 word range to finish off the anthology; see [...]
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 
“It has long been legend that publishing houses are inundated by submissions on a daily basis. That situation is the primary reason there is such a long wait for a response.This is not, however, the case at Medallion. We accept only e-submissions, and our process is streamlined in order to stay current. This is obviously [...]
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Tags: book publisher, Book Publishers, horror, horror books, horror writing 
No Comments » 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 18th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
Recently, I got the chance to talk with Jasper Bark, the prolific UK-based author and journalist whose most recent work, Way of the Barefoot Zombie, is currently available through Abbadon Books. You’ve published four adult novels and nine children’s books. Tell us, which came first? And what kind of experience did you have with selling [...]
Posted in Interviews Tags: horror, horror writer, interview, jasper bark, way of the barefoot zombie 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 21st, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
Nothing is more frustrating than to see “Closed to Submissions” on market after market when you’ve got the Most Awesome Story Ever to submit. So, to help ease the pain, we’ve gathered a quick-reference list of some Horror markets that are open to submissions right now. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but hopefully it is [...]
Posted in The Cult Tags: horror, horror markets, horror writing, Magazines, Markets, online, open, print, publishers, short stories, writers, writing 3 Comments » 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 »
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