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.

Clarkesworld Magazine announced that they’ll be accepting submissions up to 8,000 words in 2010, although they still prefer 4,000.

SFScope reported on the fourth annual Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest, being co-sponsored by the National Space Society. Submissions should be positive, near-future space exploration stories of less than 8,000 words, due April 1st.

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.

Locus has an obituary up for Charles Brown.

Brown co-founded Locus with Ed Meskys and Dave Vanderwerf as a one-sheet news fanzine in 1968, originally created to help the Boston Science Fiction Group win its Worldcon bid. Brown enjoyed editing Locus so much that he continued the magazine far beyond its original planned one-year run.