Cover Reveal for my second collection: A GRAVESIDE GALLERY: TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS

Behold: #coverreveal for my second collection coming out through Cemetery Dance !!

A GRAVESIDE GALLERY: TALES OF GHOSTS AND DARK MATTERS

(art by Alexander Nazolkin)

So absolutely in love with this, and cannot wait for April 22 release date!

Kindle preorders here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVJ2XDXH

Paperback preorders here: https://www.cemeterydance.com/AGravesideGallery.html

More about the book here: http://ericjguignard.com/a_graveside_gallery.html

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February, 2025 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For February, 2025
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)

Modern Mummies (anthology, Cat Eye Press)

https://www.cateyepress.com/submissions

Payment: 5 cents a word (1 cent/word for reprints)

Story Length: 1,500–5,000 words

Deadline: Open February 1 through February 28, 2025

Reprints?: Yes

Response: unknown

Description: Looking to update the “mummy genre.” Diverse stories about “Modern mummies,” which could also mean a modern-day person being mummified and its ramifications. We’d like you to think about how social media or our politics might react to a “new wave” of mummification. And what does that say about death in the modern era?

Merganzer Magazine

https://mergansermagazine.com/about.html

Payment: 8 cents a word (poetry at $1 USD per line)

Story Length: up to 2,000 words

Deadline: Currently open (no ending date listed)

Reprints?: No

Response: unknown

Description:

Story Length: up to 2,000 words

Deadline: Currently open (no ending date listed)

Reprints?: No

Response: unknown

Description: Strong prose and poetry covering a wide range of material, whose work transcends disciplines and genres.

The Cosmic Background

https://www.thecosmicbackground.com/guidelines

Payment: 10 cents a word (3 cents/word for reprints)

Story Length: up to 1,000 words (soft range/ a bit over is okay)

Deadline: Currently open (no ending date listed)

Reprints?: Yes

Response: unknown

Description: Slipstream/ speculative flash fiction stories: character-focused writing, with an emphasis on voice.

Elder Things Expeditions (anthology)

https://www.hiraethsffh.com/elder-things-expeditions

Payment: 8 cents a word for the 1^st 3,000 words and 3 cents a word thereafter

Story Length: 3,000–6,000 words

Deadline: March 31, 2025

Reprints?: No

Response: 90 days

Description: Short horror Lovecraftian-esque stories relating to exploration of Antarctica, and leading to revelations about the nature of the denizens, normal and paranormal, residing there.

Wrath Month (Bona Books)

https://www.bona-books.com/submissions

Payment: 8 cents a word

Story Length: up to 6,000 words

Deadline: May 31, 2025

Reprints?: No

Response: July 31, 2025

Description: Fantasy, science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage: Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberation—it can be a spur to action and the only righteous response to a world that would prefer we didn’t exist. So crash mainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity. Pride month is over. It’s time for—Wrath Month!

Assemble Artifacts Magazine (Assemble Media)

https://www.assemblemedia.com/artifacts

Payment: 8–10 cents a word

Story Length: “at least” 5,000 words (soft range)

Deadline: ongoing

Reprints?: No

Response: Responses only for acceptance. Assume rejection if no response after 90 days.

Description: Stories of wonder and suspense that also reflect contemporary issues and incite meaningful conversation. (*NOTE: Submitters, double-check the rights that are being sold with work).

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

Myths Reborn: Modern Tales of Cryptids & Dark Folklore

https://octobernightspress.bigcartel.com/open-calls

Payment: 1 cent a word

Story Length: 3,000–5,500 words
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Horror stories of cryptids, folk characters, and legends; seeking to breathe new life into aged stories. So, ax re-telling, and focus on re-envisioning.


Flash Point Science Fiction
https://flashpointsf.com/submissions/
Payment: 2 cents a word
Story Length: 100–1,000 words
Deadline: Open February 1 through March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: 30 days
Description: Original speculative fiction short stories (may include science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, holiday, but NO Horror).

Book Chain 14: California Bear by Duane Swierczynski

Book Chain Campaign: BookChain14: Tracking Log for:

California Bear by Duane Swierczynski:

i. Given from Duane Swierczynski to Eric J. Guignard at StokerCon, May 31, 2024

ii. Given from Eric J. Guignard to Rebeca Gonzalez, January 21, 2025

iii. Where to next...? Only chance and the last reader involved may determine! #BookChainChallenge

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NOTES:

Book back copy: “KILLER”: Jack Queen has been exonerated and freed from prison thanks to retired LAPD officer Cato Hightower. But when guilt gnaws at Jack, he admits: “I actually did it.” To which Hightower responds: “Yeah, no kidding.” You see, the ex-cop has a special job in mind for the ex-con…

THE GIRL DETECTIVE: Fifteen-year-old Matilda Finnerty has been handed a potential death sentence in the form of a leukemia diagnosis. But that’s not going to stop her from tackling the most important mystery of her life: Is her father guilty of murder?

GENE JEANIE: Jeanie Hightower mends family trees for a living, but the genealogist is unable to repair her own marriage. And her soon-to-be ex may have entangled her in a scheme that has drawn the bloody wrath of…

THE BEAR: A prolific serial killer who disappeared forty years ago, who is only now emerging from hibernation when the conditions are just right. And this time, the California Bear is not content to hunt in the shadows…

From two-time Edgar nominee Duane Swierczynski, California Bear is clever, moving, and surprising as it takes aim at the true crime industry, Hollywood, justice, and the killers inside us all.

(pub. Mulholland Books, August, 2023)

Available here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/duane-swierczynski/california-bear/9780316382977/?lens=mulholland-books

And reviewed on:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/California-Bear-Novel-Duane-Swierczynski/dp/0316382973

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/california-bear-duane-swierczynski/1142902652

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75593495-california-bear

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AND READ WHAT #BOOKCHAIN IS ABOUT HERE!  

https://ericjguignard.blogspot.com/2024/06/book-chain.html