m. c. de marco

Via a mailing list: GigaNotoSaurus is a new market for longer science fiction and fantasy stories (up to 25,000 words), paying a flat rate of $100. Check out the submission guidelines.

Via @sfwa on twitter: Strange Horizons now has a blog where contributors can read status, stats and advice from the fiction department.

My shortest story yet was published today at Thaumatrope, an sf/f/h twitter fiction magazine. I dimly recall submitting it, apparently in response to a call for steampunk and/or holiday stories, but I figured Bad Elf had killed little Timmy and buried his body in the slush pile.

To submit your own 140 characters of immortal speculative prose, all you need is a twitter account.

SFWA has announced that the “literary adventure fantasy” ezine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is now (and retroactively) a SFWA qualifying market.

Via a mailing list: John Joseph Adams is starting up an sf companion to Prime Books’ Fantasy Magazine: Lightspeed Magazine. The guidelines aren’t up yet, but the press release is.

I blogged last month about Clarkesworld Magazine reopening to submissions. Sunday is my new submission day, so today I picked a story of (barely) less than 4,000 words to send to them. Their new submissions system was surprisingly high-tech. It’s not just prettier than everything else out there; it even tells you where your submission is in the queue.

SFScope reports that Clarkesworld Magazine has reopened to submissions, which are now online only. Stories should be 1000—4000 words. For an entertaining sample from the current issue, check out “Can You See Me Now?” by Eric M. Witchey.