m. c. de marco

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.

Via del.icio.us sf: Futurismic will be publishing fiction again as of March. Submissions are not yet open, but keep an eye out.

SCI FICTION is closing up shop for unspecified reasons:

As SCIFI.COM gears up to expand with exciting new ventures utilizing the newest technology, it will discontinue SCI FICTION, the online publishing division of of the site, at the end of 2005.

Ellen Datlow has a farewell message up at the site. Someone in the forums suggested emailing scifi.com in protest.

Orson Scott Card has started a new e-zine: Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show.

From Writers’ Weekly: 10 Ways to Respond to Non-Paying Pubs’ Excuses by Angela Hoy. Thanks to sf-f.org for the link.

Although I write regularly for a non-paying publication, I lean towards the “don’t give it away for free” school of thought. Unless there’s some tangible benefit in it for me, I’d rather put my stories up here on my own site as sell them to some low-end zine for $5 or $10.

Thanks to The Write Hemisphere for mentioning that Abyss & Apex is open to flash fiction this month. Check out their submission guidelines.