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| April_Rose |
Preditors and Editorshttp://www.critters.org/predpoll/fictionzine.shtmlThere's a poll regarding the best e-zine, magazine, etc. There's a long list of them, a handy way to find new ones! 
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| Em_J |
Cool! There are a lot! |
| April_Rose |
Yeah I've just been looking at a few, it's handy! |
| April_Rose |
Actually, I just noticed the poll is only open for another week or so, so I've copied the links to post here.
Abandoned Towers http://cyberwizardproductions.com/AbandonedTowers Abyss & Apex http://www.abyssandapex.com Afterburn SF http://www.afterburnsf.com Albedo One http://www.albedo1.com Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) http://www.andromedaspaceways.com Apex Magazine http://www.apexbookcompany.com/apex-online/ Aphelion http://www.aphelion-webzine.com Apollo's Lyre http://www.apollos-lyre.com Bang*Bang http://community.livejournal.com/bb_shousetsu/ Bards and Sages Quarterly http://www.bardsandsages.com/quarterly.html Bewildering Stories http://bewilderingstories.com Black Gate http://www.blackgate.com/ Black Ink Horror http://www.sideshowpress.com Blood Touch http://bloodtouch.webs.com/darkgothicmagazine.htm:// Byzarium http://www.byzarium.com Drops of Crimson http://www.dropsofcrimson.com Every Day Fiction http://www.everydayfiction.com Expanded Horizons http://www.expandedhorizons.net/ Fear and Trembling http://www.fearandtremblingmag.com Flash Fiction Online http://www.flashfictiononline.com Flash Me http://www.wingedhalo.com/ Flashing Swords http://www.flashingswords.com/ flashquake http://flashquake.org Goblin Fruit http://www.goblinfruit.net/ GUD Magazine http://www.gudmagazine.com Harûah: Breath of Heaven http://www.haruah.com Helix http://helixsf.com Hub (weekly) http://HubFiction.com Interzone http://ttapress.com/category/interzone/ Jim Baen's Universe http://baens-universe.com/ Lit Up Magazine http://litupmagazine.wordpress.com McSweeney's Internet Tendency http://mcsweeneys.net MicroHorror http://microhorror.com Morpheus Tales http://www.morpheustales.com/index.htm Mysterical-E http://www.mystericale.com/ Necrotic Tissue http://www.necrotictissue.com Niteblade http://www.niteblade.com On Spec http://www.onspec.ca/home.html Paraphernalia http://paranormalromance.org/Paraphernalia.htm Ray Gun Revival http://www.raygunrevival.com Short Story Library http://shortstory.us.com Sonar4 Science Fiction and Horror Ezine http://www.sonar4ezine.com Sorcerous Signals http://www.sorceroussignals.com Static movement http://staticmovement.com Staticmovement http://www.staticmovement.com Stories for Children Magazine http://storiesforchildrenmagazine.org/InThisIssue.aspx Strange Horizons http://www.strangehorizons.com Tales of the Talisman http://www.talesofhetalisman.com The Dream People http://www.dreampeople.org The Edge of Propinquity http://www.edgeofpropinquity.net/ The Fifth Di... http://samsdotpublishing.com/fifth/cover.htm The Future Fire http://futurefire.net/ The Lorelei Signal http://www.loreleisignal.com The Monsters Next Door http://themonstersnextdoor.com The Muse Marquee http://themusemarquee.tripod.com/ The Rose & Thorn http://www.theroseandthornezine.com The Weird Crap http://www.theweirdcrap.com/ The World of Myth Magazine http://www.theworldofmyth.com Three Crow Press http://threecrowpress.com Toasted Cheese http://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/ |
| redwinegoblin |
Wow, there's loads! |
| Em_J |
Just checking some of these out. One is for 'Christian friendly horror' what the hell is that?! 
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| redwinegoblin |
Christian friendly horror?! I really can't imagine what that would be! Might have to go have a look, which one is it? |
| Em_J |
Fear and Trembling mag. |
| redwinegoblin |
Looks quite interesting! Not read any of it yet, but I think the Christian stuff is just no sex n' violence n' gore... |
| Em_J |
Oh right. I just read the bit where it said about not offending Christians! |
| redwinegoblin |
Yeah, no God stuff either , so quite traditional I might get round to reading some of it at some point...
Their formatting rules are really prescriptive though, it's all very formal! |
| Em_J |
Yeah I'm not bothering with that one. I'm just going through the list at the mo. I'm up to lit up magazine. |
| April_Rose |
Christian friendly horror?  Sounds strange! I didn't look at that one yet...might just leave it!
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| Em_J |
That Morpheus tales one looks quite good. |
| April_Rose |
http://www.themonstersnextdoor.com/devilsfood.html
This one looks good as well, they're looking for submissions for an anthology and they pay! |
| Em_J |
I don't think I looked at that one, musta missed it! |
| April_Rose |
It was a link on the main page, I had to scroll down to find it I think! it's pretty specific guidelines, but it could be worth a shot! |
| Em_J |
Yeah tis pretty specific, I just looked! Sounds quite interesting though. |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, they pay $25 which isn't bad, plenty of anthologies don't pay anything! Could be a good one to work on as I don't think I've tried anything like that before. They're lookng for pretty long stories! |
| Em_J |
Yeah, that might be quite hard! Might have a go. I wanted to write something about someone getting eaten cos I've just read a couple of stories like that and wanted to have a go myself. |
| April_Rose |
Cool, that'll help with the inspiration then, I've no idea where I'd start!
I've written 5k word stories before, so i should be able to, though everything I've written recently has been pretty short  You should be ok with it too I'd say!
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| Em_J |
Everything I write at the mo seems to be getting shorter and shorter!
I read a short story called Feeders and Eaters recently (by Neil Gaiman, of course!) and that grossed me right out! Was brilliant though. Had this little old lady in it who ate raw meat and it made her younger. She kept this cat alive so that she could feed off it, and the bloke who finds the cat kills it cos it's just manky, like half dead, half eaten, so then the woman eats his arm. And then what I'm reading at the mo is a proper novel, but it's got trees in it who eat people. |
| April_Rose |
Cool! I like the sound of the trees eating people...the half eaten cat sounds hilarious!
We could do what we usually do now, post bits as we go along and if we're below the 3000 words we could always suggest ways for each other to flesh ( Been around sis's boyfriend all day & he's terrible for puns!) out the story?
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| Em_J |
It wasn't hilarious, it was rank!
Yeah I'm up for that! |
| April_Rose |
Maybe it's just the way you describe it, it sounds funny!
Cool! |
| Em_J |
It was disturbing!
Ok, gonna have to think of some good monsters now! |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, me too! I've no time for reading to get inspiration at the moment, got four 3000 word essays due on friday 13th February, between that & RPG time and occasionally talking to hubby I haven't time to read, it's strange! |
| Em_J |
Well I'm not really sleeping, so I tend to be reading then! Also been reading while I get the rats out for a run round, though I usually get interrupted by having to go fish Pancakes out of the laundry basket.
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| April_Rose |
Ah yeah, insomnia can be handy for reading! Yeah, pets seem to take up a fair bit of my time as well.
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| Em_J |
Yeah but they're cute so tis ok!
I'm just gonna nip onto the computer so I can print off the guidelines for that Devil's food thing. Back in a sec! |
| April_Rose |
Ok!
Yeah, much as I complain about my lot, they are lovely. Five of them now altogether though! |
| Em_J |
Five's quite a lot!
Just reading the guidelines again, they want a synopsis too! |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, I hate synopses! Still, if we post the stories here we coudl always try to write them for each other?
Yeah, two dogs, three cats...the dogs are a lot of work, thankfully the cats are pretty low maintenance! |
| Em_J |
Yeah that's a good idea. Might have a go at starting mine tonight then!
I saw my dad's cats the other day. Actually touched one too. And it attacked me. |
| April_Rose |
Cool, I'll try to come up with a monster anyway, don't think I'll get started tonight but it'll give me something to do tomorrow when I'm taking a break from the essays!
It was probably just being playful!
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| Em_J |
It was being evil! |
| April_Rose |
Well, yeah, but that's just what cats do!
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| Em_J |
Eeeeeeeeeevil! |
| April_Rose |
But the good kind of evil!
This one looks good too http://www.everydayfiction.com/submit-story/ They publish one a day so I figure there's a decent chance of getting published! And they pay $3
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| Em_J |
Flash fiction though, can't do that! |
| April_Rose |
Why? |
| Em_J |
Just can't get it to work ever! |
| April_Rose |
It's up to 1000 words though, that's not too bad? |
| Em_J |
Possibly! Anything I write lately tends to be about 1500 I think. |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, sometimes stories of a certain length tend to come for me too, for a while it was the really long ones, now it's mostly under 1000! I thought you had a few pieces under 1000. |
| Em_J |
Yeah but not like complete things. Well, I have two short short stories, but they don't really have plots. Which is my usual problem lately!
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| April_Rose |
They don't say anything about plots on that site I don't think!
This one looks good too: http://www.flashingswords.com/writers.php They're looking for fantasy and there's a bit down the page where they list the types of stories that'll be rejected, and one of the kinds is where a helpless female has to be rescued!
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| Em_J |
Ah yeah I looked at that one. I've printed out a few guidelines for a few of these that I might submit things to. |
| April_Rose |
I should do that maybe, I never print stuff off, I bookmark it or post it here or whatever, then forget about it! |
| Em_J |
Yeah that's what I usually do, that's why I decided to print it this time!
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| April_Rose |
TThen again, there's always loads of papers lying around, hubby's work stuff and that, so if I printed it off it would still end up getting lost!
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| Em_J |
Mine's gonna go in my nice new filing cabinet! |
| April_Rose |
I've a study where things could go, but there's no heating in that room so I only go up when I want to use the printer or get a book at this time of the year!
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| Em_J |
Well it's handy on here anyway. |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, it's just a matter of remembering to look back through old posts, I'd completely forgotten about that Turner Maxwell thing till you reminded me! |
| Em_J |
Have you thought of an idea for the story yet?! I have nothing! |
| April_Rose |
I have nothing too!  Can't work out a monster, I think once I have that I'll be able to get started, but I keep drawing a blank. I'd like to come up with something unusual as there are so many vampire/zombie etc stories out there and I don't think I'd be able to make mine stand out enough....
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| Em_J |
I've not really been thinking of a monster, I might just make one up. I just can't really think of any sort of story or characters or setting or anything! |
| April_Rose |
I've got an idea for characters, well, the human characters. Am thinking of basing it around a family, all grown ups, that are all home for some reason, maybe Xmas or some kind of family occasion, when news breaks about the monsters...then it'll be the different ways they react to the fear. |
| Em_J |
Yeah that sounds good. Gah, I'm so stuck!! I read the 'what they want' bit again and the main thing it says is the threat of being eaten. So not actually being eaten. Tis tricky!
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| April_Rose |
Yeah, though I figure at least some of them could get eaten.... 
You could develop your monster hunter story into it? That's got a good lead character! |
| Em_J |
I did think that actually, but I don't think that'd work cos it's quite light and it'd have to go quite dark. Did that make sense?!
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| April_Rose |
Yeah, I know what you mean...could be an interesting turn, if the hunter becomes the hunted, but it might feel a bit disjointed or something? |
| Em_J |
Yeah it's not got the right tone I don't think.
I was thinking about eyeballs, I've got eyeballs in my head ( ) but not sure what sort of story I could make out of that!
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| April_Rose |
Strange thing to have in your head ( )! Maybe the monster doesn't eat eyeballs? Like, that's all that's left behind of the body?
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| Em_J |
Oh yeah, that'd be gross! Hmm, might think about that. |
| April_Rose |
Gross can work! |
| Em_J |
Yeah I like gross! |
| April_Rose |
Me too, well, in stories, not such a big fan on TV or films! |
| Em_J |
Yeah, no I don't really like it in TV or films, weird! I think I've got an idea for a gross little scene involving eyeballs now, but not sure how it'll fit into anything else! |
| April_Rose |
Write it anyway if you have it in your head, you can always see if you get more ideas to fit around it later, once you have it down? |
| Em_J |
Yeah I'll do that later. At least I've got one idea now anyway! |
| April_Rose |
Yeah that's cool! I still don't have a monster, but I'm trying to get started on writing anyway, see if I can flesh out the characters a bit. |
| Em_J |
You could do some monster research, I found a good site the other day but didn't bookmark it or anything! I'm quite keen on ghouls lately, but they only tend to hang around graveyards so might not work in this type of story. I've got a few books on monsters and whatnot I might go through. |
| April_Rose |
Yeah, research wouldn't be a bad idea! There must be a few decent websites out there. |
| Em_J |
Try this: www.monstrous.com |
| April_Rose |
Cool, the monstropedia bit looks good, I'm bound to find a good monster there! Thanks! |
| Em_J |
No probs.
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