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

[Adam Holland]

I'm with Chris.  Especially since you've already had success.
also try futurismic, and see here <http://www.ralan.com/>for more submission
info.  They really have it all.

Adam

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Chris. That's great information. So the web addresses are:
>
> Asimovs Science Fiction
> http://www.asimovs.com/
> Submissions and Guidelines
> http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.shtml
>
> The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
> http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/
> Submissions and Guidelines
> http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm
>
> Analog
> http://www.analogsf.com/0805/issue_05.shtml
> Submissions and Guidelines
> http://www.analogsf.com/information/submissions.shtml
>
> It's funny that they all want paper submissions. Not exactly a sci-fi
> paperless world in sci-fi publishing. Haven't they all got Kindles?
> At the rate they pay you'd have to write four 10,000 word stories a week
> and have them all accepted to make a living writing short stories. Joe
> was right. You pretty much have to write novels, ideally series of
> n-ologies where n is greater than ten, and ideally sell the film rights
> to the whole series. Or else get an honest job.
> Still, there's the challenge.
>
> Christopher Robichaud wrote:
> > ----- Forwarded message from cjrobi at mit.edu -----
> >     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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