New Blog Post at RA FOR ALL: HORROR discussing my new PRIMER series

Thanks so much to Becky Spratford (Readers’ Advisory specialist, librarian, and founder of RA for All) and RA FOR ALL: HORROR for hosting my blog post today discussing my new Primer Series on modern authors of short horror fiction and why they deserve to be further studied! http://raforallhorror.blogspot.com/2017/10/31-days-of-horror-day-25-guest-post-by.html

With academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD, and gorgeous interior illustrations by artist Michelle Prebich, book #1 launched a few months ago, and I have the next three lined up for 2018 release.

EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION: A PRIMER TO:

#1: Steve Rasnic Tem (July, 2017)

#2: Kaaron Warren (ETA early 2018)

#3: Nisi Shawl (ETA Spring, 2018)

#4: Jeffrey Ford (ETA Mid-2018)

Published by DARK MOON BOOKS at: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Books.html

October, 2017 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

October, 2017

New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

Zoetrope: All-Story
http://www.all-story.com/submissions.cgi

Payment: Varies; at least minimum professional rates and upward
Story Length: up to 7,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown (reports at about 3 months)
Description: Founded by Francis Ford Coppola: Quarterly magazine devoted to the best new short fiction and one-act plays; genre fiction welcome, but to mainstream tastes. Postal mail submissions only.


Holy C.O.W.! Spec Fic stories from the Center of the World (anthology)
http://holycowpublishing.com/guidelines.html

Payment: 7–10 cents a word
Story Length: 500–6,000 words
Deadline: Open between November 1–30
Reprints?: No
Response: 30 days
Description: stories rooted in the ancient Fertile Crescent, Levant and the Middle East, but stretch into the near and distant future. Holy C.O.W.! is seeking all styles and sub-genre, including humorous speculative fiction.


Fireside Fiction Company
http://firesidefiction.com/about/#submissions-guidelines

Payment: 12.5 cents a word
Story Length: up to 4,000 words (flash fiction preferred)
Deadline: Open only Nov. 5–Nov. 11, 2017
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: To publish great speculative fiction storytelling, regardless of genre (ex. Neil Gaiman); unique voices.


Clarkesworld Magazine
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/

Payment: 10 cents per word for the first 5,000 words, 8 cents for each word over 5,000
Story Length: 1,000–16,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent.
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Science fiction and fantasy (include. All associated sub-genres); Science fiction need not be "hard" SF, but rigor is appreciated. Fantasy can be folkloric, contemporary, surreal, etc. Horror can be supernatural or psychological, so long as it is frightening.


Uncanny Magazine
http://uncannymagazine.com/submissions

Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 750–6,000 words
Deadline: Open only Oct. 2–Oct. 16, 2017
Reprints?: No
Response: One month
Description: Passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry... intricate, experimental stories and poems with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs.


Awakenings anthology (Book Smugglers Publishing)
http://thebooksmugglers.com/2017/10/book-smugglers-publishing-open-call-short-stories-submissions-2018-awakenings.html

Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–17,500 words
Deadline: December 31, 2017
Reprints?: No
Response: One month
Description: Short stories following Fairytale Retellings, First Contact, Superheroes, and Gods & Monsters. When it comes to Awakenings, anything goes. You, the author, should feel free to take this general theme and interpret it in any way you see fit–from a story about an AI’s first hours of sentience, to magical alternate histories featuring characters discovering how to wield power for the first time, anything goes.



***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”

Best of Hardcore Horror, Volume 3 (Best Of/ Reprint antho) (edited by Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax; publ. by Comet Press)
http://cometpress.us/submission-guidelines/years-best-hardcore-horror

Payment: 1 cent a word (reprints only)
Story Length: to 8,000 words
Deadline: December 31, 2017
Reprints?: Reprints only (including stories from self-publishing, online, single-author collections, etc.)
Response: unknown
Description: Hardcore Horror stories that were published in 2017 (bloody, gory, outlandish, pushing boundaries, etc.)


Tales from the Lake, Vol. 5 (Crystal Lake Publishing)
http://www.crystallakepub.com/crystal-lake-submissions/

Payment: 3 cent a word
Story Length: to 6,000 words
Deadline: December 1, 2017
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed horror, with a preference for believable, quiet horror and dark fiction with a literary bent.

Release day for HAUNTED NIGHTS anthology I'm in!

Received my contributor’s copy, just in time for release day of the latest anthology I’m in “HAUNTED NIGHTS” (October, 2017 by Blumhouse Books/ Penguin Random House)! Edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton, I’m thrilled to be included alongside some of my peers, inspirations, and idols of writing! My story, “A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds” is about varrio self-discovery in East L.A. on Dia de los Muertos, with gangs, talking sugar skulls, and dark magic.

Available for sale here: https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Nights-Lisa-Morton/dp/1101973838/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

Edited by: Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton
Table of Contents includes:

"With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfbane Seeds" by Seanan McGuire
"Dirtmouth" by Stephen Graham Jones
"A Small Taste of the Old Countr" by Jonathan Maberry
"Wick’s End" by Joanna Parypinski
"The Seventeen Year Itch" by Garth Nix
"A Flicker of Light on Devil’s Night" by Kate Jonez
"Witch-Hazel" by Jeffrey Ford
"Nos Galen Gaeaf" by Kelley Armstrong
"We’re Never Inviting Amber Again" by S. P. Miskowski
"Sisters" by Brian Evenson
"All Through the Night" by Elise Forier Edie
"A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds" by Eric J. Guignard
"The Turn" by Paul Kane
"Jack" by Pat Cadigan
"Lost in the Dark" by John Langan
"The First Lunar Halloween" by John R. Little

DOUBLE JACK by Gene O'Neill available for sale!

Received over the weekend, the first box of Gene O'Neill’s novella, DOUBLE JACK!! This is the first book in the trilogy, “The Crime Files of Katy Green,” and the second book I’ve published through my press, Dark Moon Books! With Introduction by John Palisano and stellar illustrations by Greg Chapman!

Taking orders for all major book chains and for you! Buy, buy, buy! Online at: https://www.amazon.com/Double-Jack-Crime-Files-Green/dp/0998827568/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1506960227&sr=1-1&keywords=double+jack+gene+o%27neill