[Writingworkshop] Fwd: Re: Submitting sci fi short stories

[Christopher Robichaud]

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    Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:13:22 -0400
    From: Christopher Robichaud <cjrobi at mit.edu>
Reply-To: Christopher Robichaud <cjrobi at mit.edu>
 Subject: Re: [Writingworkshop] Submitting sci fi short stories
      To: Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>

I say go for the gold, first, and then see what happens. The gold includes The
Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's, and Analog.
Depending on how
science-fictiony your stuff is, there's also Realm of Fantasy. Strange
Horizons
is good too, from what I'm told, though I don't think it's included in
the gold
and I think it's just online. Apex is another up-and-comer. If your stuff is
scary/weird, there's always Cemetery Dance and Weird Tales, two golds in that
category.

 From what I'm told, MFSF has a very quick turnover and Asimov's has a
very slow
one. Average is a couple of months. My strategy will be to round-robin them,
that is, to send out one story to each and then "turn the dial" if/when the
rejections come. That way I'm not wasting any time waiting to hear back from
one before sending a submission to another. That plan requires me having
multiple stories to send out, and I have two so far that I'm happy with
and one
that I'm almost happy with, but I'm gonna wait 'til I have five or six
and then
proceed. Some magazines don't care if you send the same story to multiple
places.

I'm not a big fan of writing short flash fiction, at least not now, but
I'm told
there's always folks looking for stuff to put into flash anthologies and the
like. That's something I haven't investigated.

Can't wait to see your stories in print in Nature, Neale!

-Chris


Quoting Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>:

> Hi all.
> If you were going to submit a short sci story, say 2500-4000 words, to
> any publisher, who would you try?
> Are there any publishers who might be interested in very short stories,
> 800 -1000 words, other than the Nature Futures section?
>
> Thanks,
> Neale
>
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