Dark Moon Books (and myself) are thrilled to be part of Buzz
Book Expo this year! We’ll speak briefly about the press and chat with a few
authors who are part of it. We'll be online there on Sunday, September 10 at 9:30
a.m. PST.
Thanks to Somer Canon, Mary SanGiovanni, and Matt Wildasin for having us!
https://www.buzzbookexpo.com/
#buzzbooksexpo #ericjguignard #ericguignard #darkmoonbooks
#bookstagram #horror #darkfiction #Booksofericjguignard
Nightmare Diaries
https://www.moonstruck-books.com/submissions
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 500–10,000 words
Deadline: December 27, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed Dark Fiction
short stories.
Feisty Felines and Other Fantastical
Familiars
https://wordfirewestern.moksha.io/publication/6
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: Open between September 1
and October 15, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: By December 31, 2023
Description: Magical animal
familiars and their humans: Original feline and or familiar stories and poetry
in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, suspense, humor, and
romance, appropriate for up to a “PG-13” audience. Felines and or familiars (of
other types) must be central to the story.
Little Bastards: Too-Short Horror
Stories Nobody Wants
https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/submissions-little-bastards
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–2,000 words
Deadline: Open between September 15
and September 30, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Unthemed horror stories
(including all sub-genres, as well as fantasy and dark literary).
https://grendelpress.com/anthology-submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 2,500–7,000 words
Deadline: December 31, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: Generally within 2 months
Description: A tale delivered from a
character who stepped through a door and found themselves someplace unexpected.
On their journey, they will notice a book called Midnight Labyrinth. No
requirement to read or interact with it; it just needs to appear. Genre-bending
is welcome! Sci-fi, steampunk, horror, fantasy, etc.
Here There Be Dragons
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/here-there-be-dragons
Payment: 8 cents a word for
the 1st 3,00 words and 3 cents a word thereafter
Story Length: 3,000–6,000 words
Deadline: Open between October 1 and
January 1, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Two months
Description: Renderings of dragons
in writing and art that capture the essence of these fascinating creatures.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–7,500 words
Deadline: Intermittent. Reopens
September 1, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: up to 3 months
Description: Highly imaginative
stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd
realities. We’re looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial
to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal.
https://undertowpublications.com/weird-horror-magazine
Payment: 1.5 cents a word
Story Length: 500–6,000 words
Deadline: Open between September 2
and September 16, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: Generally within 2 months
Description: Original (non-themed)
horror and weird fiction short stories.
https://theunderdogpress.com/pages/submission-guidelines
All 3 anthologies:
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500–12,000 words
Reprints?: No
Response: Within 3 months
1. The Underdogs Rise Vol. 2
Deadline: August 31, 2023
Description: Science fiction or
fantasy stories about underdogs that take fantastical worlds or places but want
characters to be the focus.
2. The Way of Worlds
Deadline: December 31,
2023
Description: Stories about outer
space exploration and colonization.
3. Nightmares Before Bed
Deadline: January 31,
2023
Description: Unthemed horror
stories
Just set up my account on Bluesky (which is unfortunately still invite-only). But if you're there, let's connect! I'm: @ericjguignard
https://bsky.app/profile/ericjguignard.bsky.social
New release today by Dark Moon Books!!
Presenting the NEW horror anthology:
+HORROR LIBRARY+ VOLUME 8
###
The +Horror Library+ anthologies are internationally praised as a
groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories—relevant to
the moment and stunning in impact—from leading authors of the macabre and
darkly imaginative.
Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem.
Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is
packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as to what truly
lurks among the shadows of the world(s) we live in.
Read Volume 8 in this ongoing anthology series, and then continue with the
other volumes.
Shamble no longer through the banal humdrum of normalcy, but ENTER THE HORROR
LIBRARY!
Volume 8 contains 31 all-original stories, including:
• In Saving the World," a family
feeds their captive devil the sorrows of neighbors.
• In “We Can't Let Go," a welfare
check by a child services worker proves that not all in life is as expected.
• In “Only the Stones Will Hear You
Scream," a man meets his nightmares while caving through narrow
underground passages.
• In “Broodmare," a teen girl
yearns to be as free as her beloved horse while waiting to give birth to the
savior-figure of her tribe.
• . . . and more!
** Also including a special guest-artist's gallery of Jana Heidersdorf Jana
Heidersdorf Illustration!
###
Title: +Horror Library+ Volume 8 (or, Horror Library, Volume 8)
Editor: Eric J. Guignard
Publisher: Dark Moon Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Format: Available in TRADE PAPERBACK and EBOOK
Number of pages: 338 pgs at 6” x 9” trim (109,000 words)
Date of publication: July 25, 2023
###
Praise for the +Horror Library+:
“Excellent stories of the highest caliber.” —Dread Central
“Uniformly well-crafted and original.” —Rue Morgue Magazine
“Impactful tales that throw the rules of both reality and genre fiction out the
window.” —Fearnet (Chiller TV)
###
Full Table of Contents includes:
Introduction to +Horror Library+ Volume 8 by Eric J. Guignard
“Rides” by Eric Del Carlo
“Only the Stones Will Hear You Scream” by R.A. Busby
“Poor Mad Isaac” by Don Raymond
“Mr. Hunicutt” by Bentley Little
“Lise Meitner Speaks to the Living” by Octavia Cade
“Lines” by Lauren O’Donoghue
“Blockchain” by Dexter McLeod
“On the Corduroy Road” by Bryson Richard
“Under the Pale Mother Moon” by Garick Cooke
“Solace” by Anna Ziegelhof
“Saving the World” by Eric Nash
“The Old Tip Road” by C.M. Saunders
“Lullaby” by Lorne Dixon
“Story of Her Life” by Tom Johnstone
“H Is for the Hunt” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Mazu—Goddess of the Sea” by Ai Jiang
“Hymns in the Dark” by Gordon Grice
“Holler Bridge” by J.L. Hoy
“The Rest Cure” by Shenoa Carroll-Bradd
“Zipper Back” by Thersa Matsuura
“Fishers of ___” by Frances Ogamba
“The Blind” by James Owens
“Unwind” by Christopher O’Halloran
“Girlskin” by Clara Madrigano
“A Dormant Concern” by Charles Wilkinson
“Clay” by Colin Leonard
“Broodmare” by Jo Kaplan
“In Fear as Dark as Coal” by Ron Perovich
“The Yearning Pool” by Thomas P. Balazs
“We Can’t Let Go” by Sheldon Higdon
“Fell Mill” by Charlie Hughes
+Horror Library+ Presents: Special Guest-Artist’s Gallery of Jana Heidersdorf
And with cover art by Magdalena Kaczan!
#HorrorLibrary
#ericjguignard #ericguignard #Booksofericjguignard #darkmoonbooks #horror
#darkfantasy #darkfiction #anthology #horrorstories #horrorshortstories
#shortstories #series #thehorrorlibrary
###
LINKS!
Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_8.html
Amazon (paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Library-8-Eric-Guignard/dp/194949151X/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135967283-horror-library-volume-8
Also available on all other online distribution sites, including B&N,
IndieBound (and bookshop.org), Kobo, etc.
I love being part of Writers’ panels. I’ve spoken
on them (40 or 50 by now?) over the past 8 or 9 years at events all over the
country. Yesterday was the first time I’d ever spoken at ComicCon, and it was totally
one of the most memorable. Normally I’m on the panel with other writers who are
generally similar to me, in terms of their career and/or goals. Yesterday I was
on a panel for Ghostwriting, and it was a wild mix of stars from all across the
cosmos of creative endeavors.
•
Hunter Jackson, one of the founding members of madhouse metal band GWAR as Techno
Destructo (my brother would have been so envious!)
•
Nicholas Cvjetkovich, WWE wrestling superstar and promotor under the name Sinn
Bodhi (Bowdee)
•
Horror film actor Pat Jankiewicz
•
Hypnotherapist Grant Offenberger
•
Renowned sci-fi author and mega-icon of self-publishing Hugh Howey (“THE” Hugh Howey,
with WOOL coming to AMC and SILO to Apple TV)
•
And moderated by filmmaker and comedian Tim Chizmar
It
was hilarious, insightful, and a great time, and thanks to Tim for bringing us
all together!
Anyone in the greater-Pasadena/ Southern California area—I’ll be at the Altadena Library this coming Monday afternoon! I’ll be speaking, reading, selling books, as part of INDIE AUTHOR NIGHT with three other authors. Come down and say hi!
What did I get up to last night? Oh not too
much, just got to be interviewed on a cool lil' podcast called Visited by
Voices. Thanks so much to Lorne Dixon and Sam Carlson for the great
conversation on HORROR LIBRARY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13jbD6Px6KI
New author photo! I was told my last one looked too grim, so trying again.
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Everybody, everybody! I'll be a Panelist for the first time next week at ComicCon!
"Ghostwriters: The Spirits of Vengeance in Literature"
Fri., July 21, 8:00 p.m.
with Hugh Howey, Tim Chizmar, Pat Jankiewicz, Amber Hassler, and Grant Offenberger
https://comiccon2023.sched.com/event/1OXFn
Wonder and glory! I got HORROR LIBRARY, VOLUME 8 books over the
weekend!! Prepping to send out for Contributors, Reviewers, and Direct
Preorders!
Thanks
to Dark Moon Books!
https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Library-8-Eric-Guignard/dp/194949151X/
Monstrous Magazine
(ed. James Aquilone)
https://monstrousbooks.com/submissions
Payment: 6 cents a word ($125
flat per comic)
Story Length: 1,000–2,000 words
Deadline: July 27, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Comics, prose fiction,
and articles; we do like monsters, pulp, and classic horror films. Focus should
be on fast-paced entertaining stories.
https://www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500 or less
Deadline: Open
between July 17– July 31, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response Time: One month after end of submission window
Description: Speculative fiction–science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Everything should have a speculative element–that includes horror. Feel free to
mix in other genres at will–a fantasy mystery or a science fiction romance.
FANTASY Flash-Fiction for LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE (ed. by John Joseph Adams)
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: July 1–July 7, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: Generally two weeks or less.
Description: All types of fantasy are welcome—high fantasy, contemporary
urban tales, surrealism, magical realism, science fantasy, folktales and
anything and everything in between. Fantasy is entertainment for the
intelligent genre reader — send us stories of the fantastic that make us think,
and tell us what it is to be human while amazing us with your mastery of
language and story elements. No subject should be considered off-limits, and we
encourage writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.
Solarpunk Magazine
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500–7,500 words
Deadline: Open between January
1–January 14, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories that strive for
a utopian ideal, that are set in futures where communities are optimistically
struggling to solve or adapt to climate change, to create or maintain a world
in which humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmony rather than in
conflict, etc. Also open to poetry and non-fiction.
Mysterion (ezine)
http://www.mysteriononline.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Payment: 8 cents a word (4
cents for reprints)
Story Length: up to 9,000 words
Deadline: Open between July 1–July 31, 2023
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Four months
Description: Christian-themed
speculative stories and artwork—science fiction, fantasy, horror—with Christian
themes, characters, or cosmology; science fiction and fantasy, good ghost
stories, etc.; there's great fiction material hidden in the mysteries of
Christian theology—cherubim, leviathan, nephilim, visions, prophecy, and more.
Apparition Lit—Flash Fiction
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,000 words
Deadline: July 1–July 14, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: by the 15th day of the
following month after submissions close
Description: Month of July Theme =
REALITY SHOW MADNESS. We’re looking for flash with a heavy addition of the
speculative. Stories should be inspired by the genre/show type, but not fan
fiction: Speculative stories in the vein of Eurovision/Singing and Talent
Competitions.
http://www.asimovs.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–20,000 words
(generally less than 7,500 words)
Deadline: Intermittently open
Reprints?: No
Response: Five weeks
Description: Character-oriented
Science Fiction stories that is serious, thoughtful, yet accessible (occasional
humor), including borderline fantasy, slipstream, and surreal fiction (and some
poetry).
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://interzone.press/submissions/
Payment: 1.5 euros a word
Story Length: 2,000–17,500 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: usually within 5 weeks
Description: Fantastika fiction: non-themed,
general audience, science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
https://smallbeerpress.com/about/submission-guidelines/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: ongoing/ intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: within 6 months
Description: NOTE: PAPER SUBMISSIONS
ONLY (no email): Non-themed literary speculative fiction (no gore, sword and
sorcery, or erotica), as well as non-fiction, poetry, and black and white art.
The
newest volume of HORROR LIBRARY is now available for pre-orders, and I couldn’t be
more proud!!
This series has been ongoing since 2006, and I think this new volume #8 might
be the best yet (with apologies to 2015’s “Best Of volume)!
More on the series here: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/horror_library.html
Now, announcing this year’s
contributors and Table of Contents!!
Introduction to +Horror Library+ Volume 8 by Eric J. Guignard
“Rides” by Eric Del Carlo
“Only the Stones Will Hear You Scream” by R.A. Busby
“Poor Mad Isaac” by Don Raymond
“Mr. Hunicutt” by Bentley
Little
“Lise Meitner Speaks to the Living” by Octavia Cade
“Lines” by Lauren O’Donoghue
“Blockchain” by Dexter McLeod
“On the Corduroy Road” by Bryson Richard
“Under the Pale Mother Moon” by Garick Cooke
“Solace” by Anna Ziegelhof
“Saving the World” by Eric Nash
“The Old Tip Road” by C.M. Saunders
“Lullaby” by Lorne Dixon
“Story of Her Life” by Tom Johnstone
“H Is for the Hunt” by
Steve Rasnic Tem
“Mazu—Goddess of the Sea” by Ai Jiang
“Hymns in the Dark” by Gordon Grice
“Holler Bridge” by J.L. Hoy
“The Rest Cure” by Shenoa Carroll-Bradd
“Zipper Back” by Thersa Matsuura
“Fishers of ___” by Frances Ogamba
“The Blind” by James Owens
“Unwind” by Christopher O’Halloran
“Girlskin” by Clara Madrigano
“A Dormant Concern” by Charles Wilkinson
“Clay” by Colin Leonard
“Broodmare” by Jo Kaplan
“In Fear as Dark as Coal” by Ron Perovich
“The Yearning Pool” by Thomas P. Balazs
“We Can’t Let Go” by Sheldon Higdon
“Fell Mill” by Charlie Hughes
+Horror Library+ Presents: Special Guest-Artist’s Gallery of Jana Heidersdorf
###
About:
The +Horror Library+ anthologies are
internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short
fiction stories—relevant to the moment and stunning in impact—from leading
authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.
Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark
Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the
+Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy
contemplations as to what truly lurks among the shadows of the world(s) we live
in.
Read Volume 8 in this ongoing anthology series, and then continue with the
other volumes.
Shamble no longer through the banal humdrum of normalcy, but ENTER THE HORROR LIBRARY!
Volume 8 contains 31 all-original stories,
including:
• In Saving the World," a family feeds their captive devil the
sorrows of neighbors.
• In “We Can't Let Go," a welfare check by a child services
worker proves that not all in life is as expected.
• In “Only the Stones Will Hear You Scream," a man meets his
nightmares while caving through narrow underground passages.
• In “Broodmare," a teen girl yearns to be as free as her
beloved horse while waiting to give birth to the savior-figure of her tribe.
• . . . and more!
**Also including a special guest-artist's gallery of Jana Heidersdorf!
###
Book Data
Title: +Horror Library+ Volume 8 (alternate: Horror
Library, Volume 8)
Editor: Eric J. Guignard
Price: $16.95 for print and $5.99 for electronic
Publisher: Dark Moon Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Publisher Web: www.darkmoonbooks.com
Format: Available in Trade Paperback and Electronic Media
Number of pages: 338 pgs at 6” x 9” trim (109,000
words)
13-digit ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949491-51-7
13-digit ISBN (e-book): 978-1-949491-52-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022930185
Date of publication: July 25, 2023
###
Praise for the +Horror
Library+:
“Excellent stories
of the highest caliber.” —Dread
Central
“Uniformly well-crafted and
original.” —Rue
Morgue Magazine
“Impactful tales that throw the rules of both reality and genre fiction
out the window.” —Fearnet (Chiller TV)
###
Direct Preorder Book Links:
Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_8.html
Amazon (paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Library-8-Eric-Guignard/dp/194949151X/
Amazon (ebook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9J6MP73/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135967283-horror-library-volume-8
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/horror-library-volume-8-eric-j-guignard/1143375008
IndieBound (paperback): https://bookshop.org/p/books/horror-library-volume-8-eric-j-guignard/20011217?ean=9781949491517
Kobo (ebook): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/horror-library-volume-8
Bookshop (paperback): https://bookshop.org/p/books/horror-library-volume-8-eric-j-guignard/20011217
#ericjguignard #ericguignard #Booksofericjguignard
#darkmoonbooks #bookstagram #horror #darkfantasy #darkfiction #anthology #horrorstories
#horrorshortstories #shortstories #series #HorrorLibrary #theHorrorLibrary
For those who cherish the beauty and gravity of written prose, you need to check out immediately NICK by Michael Farris Smith (2021), the prequel to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY.
I’m about 1/3 through it, and this book is mesmerizing, a complex harmony between self-searching, of desire and regret, and shadows of what once were or could have been.
Besides the Gatsby correlation, it strikes me further as a cross between Nelson Algren’s A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE and William Faulkner’s AS I LAY DYING, and it’s one of my best reading experiences so far of the year.
See herein, an extracted passage from young Nick Carraway as he lies alone in the World War I-ravaged trenches of Europe:
(Photo by Kate Maruyama)
Best
of all was meeting friends for the first time whom I’ve only ever communicated
with online: Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Ai Jiang, and Anna Ziegelhof.
I
was sorry to have missed meeting S. Qiouyi Lu who came by one night, and I only
learned later that Laura Anne Gilman was in attendance, whom I would have loved
to have met.
But
I was also very pleased to meet many other attending writers, some of whom I
only shared a few words of introduction, while others I chatted with for a long
time:
###
While
at the convention, I spoke on two panels:
For The Love of Short
Fiction 2022
by:
Arley Sorg, Eric J. Guignard, Peter Behravesh, Jane Pinckard, and
(Photo by Phong Quan @pqwrites)
Seeking a Writer for
the End of the World
by:
K. R. Monin, Eric J. Guignard, R.W.W. Greene, and John Murphy
###
And
I attended a number of other panels, but only took pics of two:
by: Jasmine
Gower, Zabé Ellor, Sarah Branson, and M. S. Ewing
Branding and
Marketing: Finding That Return on Investment
by:
L.S. Johnson, Jonathan Brazee, and Cerece Rennie Murphy
###
Nice,
memorable awards show, hosted by designer and actress Cheryl Platz.
(Photo by SFWA)
Anyway,
now marked on my to-do list is to attend the Nebulas again in the future!
Carry
on, Airship Nebula!
#Nebulas2023
