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 [...]
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Tags: dark moon digest, horror, horror contest, horror writing, short story contest, writing 
6 Comments » 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. [...]
Posted in The Cult Tags: abject terror, agents, horror agents, horror fiction, horror writers, horror writing, literary agents, writers, writing 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 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 »
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