Category: Anthology

Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Good Southern Witches

Deadline: February 28, 2021
Payment: $25 and a contributors copy
Theme: Stories about witches that take place in the Southern United States

Good Southern Witches

Curious Blue Press is a new independent publisher of fantasy and horror fiction and occult nonfiction. Curious Blue Press’s first open submission call is for its Good Southern Witches short story anthology.

Your story should be a complete and satisfying tale of magic. Light, dark, humorous, serious, all okay, just nothing too experimental, sexy, or violent. The story should take place in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, or West Virginia, OR at least prominently feature a character or characters from one of these settings. Avoid the explained supernatural: If Velma pulls off the villain’s rubber mask, there should be a real witch beneath it.

If your witch isn’t good, make sure your witch is good at it.

You and your characters may be of any race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender expression. To avoid cultural appropriation, you are encouraged to write from your own culture.

2K to 5K words. A little over, a little under is fine. Stories due February 28, 2021. New stories only, no reprints.

Payment is $25/story (upon acceptance) plus a physical copy of the anthology. The author will, of course, retain the copyright, but Curious Blue Press will require exclusivity of six months after publication date. Author will be required to sign an agreement granting Curious Blue Press the right to include story in the Good Southern Witches anthology and guaranteeing the story has not been published previously. (more…)

Anthology / Events / Poetry / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Triangulation

Deadline: February 28th, 2021
Payment: 3¢ per word for fiction and 25 cents per line for poetry
Theme: Habitats. Sustainable habitats, in tune with their surroundings.

Triangulation will open for submissions on December 1, 2020. We are Parsec Ink’s speculative fiction anthology, since 2003. We’re looking for outstanding fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, and speculative horror–from new and established writers. We are continuing to tackle environmental issues as we did with Triangulation: Dark Skies (about light pollution) and Triangulation: Extinction (about the loss of biodiversity). Tell us a story we won’t forget.

Theme: Triangulation: Habitats. Sustainable habitats, in tune with their surroundings.

Show us places we want to live that never existed or that we don’t know ever existed. Past, present, and future domiciles for humans, aliens, and fantasy creatures.

Ideally, the story plot will hinge on the habitat design. Let us hear about a new way to live, thriving, not merely surviving. What does it mean to live sustainably in outer space, underground, in the sea, floating in the atmosphere?

What does sustainability look like in a fantasy setting? Is the mana running out? Eye of newt getting scarce? Gnomes in the septic system?

Consider an Earthship, a faerie mound, a hobbit house, a generation starship where everything is recycled, a living starship where humans live in symbiosis with their environment, a forest city, a treehouse on Yggdrasil.

What will Biosphere 3 look like? A research station on Mars? The first or thirty-first lunar colony?

Flying houses. Tiny houses. Ultrasmart houses. Longhouses. Cave dwellings, cliff dwellings, teepees, igloos, tents, yurts, polystyrene dome homes, sandbag homes, straw bale homes.

Moated castles with crenelated battlements, slitted archery windows, double walls, drawbridges, spiral staircases curved to put a right-handed attacker at a disadvantage. Spires, minarets, secret passages, dungeons, wells, narrow twisty streets in a surrounding town, so armies can’t march through.

Phase change materials in the walls. Earth tubes. South-facing window walls. Large thermal masses for heating. Greenhouses. Buried root cellars (wine cellars).

Ah, but adding magic in the mix? The hut of Baba Yaga. The treasure cave of Aladdin.

Show us habitats we’ve dreamed about or never even dreamed of. Show us habitats we thought we understood and teach us something new about them.

Submission Requirements

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: HorrorTube Anthology Volume II

Deadline: January 10th, 2021
Payment: $10 and a contributors copy
Theme: Winter horror or any story concerning the cold.
Note: Reprints welcome

Served Cold edited by R. Saint Claire and Steve Donoghue.

Seeking submissions from authors with active BookTube or AuthorTube channels for the next HorrorTube Anthology.

Our first release, Local Haunts, has been very successful so far, reaching Amazon’s number #1 bestseller rank in Canada and Australia and garnering excellent reviews.

Again, we are looking for a diverse group of authors with active BookTube and/or AuthorTube channels (no channel too small) so please do not hesitate to submit.

Genre: Horror, including suspense, mystery, and weird fiction. Sci-fi and fantasy are fine as long as there are some horror elements.

Theme: Winter horror or any story concerning the cold. No overt erotica or anything too hardcore. Contact Regina at [email protected] with any questions.

Length: 1,000 – 7,000 words

Deadline: January 10, 2021

Details: Please submit your story and other materials as separate attachments along with a link to your YouTube channel to [email protected]. Please use the standard submission format. For guidance see https://www.shunn.net/format/story.html.

Please submit only your best, most polished work. Reprints are okay. The terms include the nonexclusive right to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit and sell digital and print reproductions of your story worldwide.

English language only.

Pay for accepted submissions: $10 honorarium, print and digital copy. All proceeds will be donated to the literacy charity First Book.

Deadline: January 10, 2021

Release Date: February 2021

Cover Design: Cameron Roubique

Via: R. Saint Claire.

Anthology / Trembling With Fear

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Trembling With Fear 11/15/20

Nice to report on some good news this week with regard to one of our regular writers, Patrick Winters. He has not only gone through major surgery but is also out of hospital and writing. I have no doubt we’ll see more from him soon.

NaNoWriMo is ongoing for a number of us. I’m not far off finishing and I’ve found that whilst I’ve meandered, the writing is pushing me towards the final focus the book will take. What I’ve written so far is not wasted and will simply be re-ordered. When I get stuck, my attituded is to write the scene that’s on my mind – even if it’s not linear, eg it would fit earlier or suits the ending more. My folk horror world is developing nicely!

Remember if you have publication news, events or are offering work services after suffering income drops/job loss due to covid, we have our Friday roundup of the latest indie releases. We have moved away from the ‘pandemic’ label as this feature will continue as an additional support to writers as covid eventually – hopefully – dies off. And sometimes, it’s just nice not to see a reference to the pandemic for a change! Feel free to send info/links to us!

Trembling With Fear this week, leads with The Haruspex by Harris Coverley. An historical setting, it shows us the horror we commit ourselves, through our beliefs, with no recourse to any horror tropes. The characters and their roles in the deaths and sacrifices described came through as very believable, because of its grounding in fact. Refreshingly different.

A Man’s Kingdom by Ryan Benson shows that sometimes a solution to a problem does not go to plan. A few nicely placed clues to inform the ending.

Archer Avenue by Darlene Holt allows us to see the truth behind a rhyme which was always regarded as nonsense. Using children and rhymes always offers a lot of scope in horror.

Special by Phil Slattery has a nice touch of dark humour at its end.

 

Enjoy the stories and send us yours!

 

Take care

Steph

 

Stephanie Ellis

Editor, Trembling With Fear

I hope you’re all having a great weekend (or whatever day it may be as you read this one.)
As always, please do leave a comment below if you find a story (or multiples) that you like so the authors know how you feel about their work!
I also have a personal request this week. We’re contemplating changing up the layout of the site and would like your opinion. We currently post in the traditional blog style and have been leaning toward switching to a ‘magazine’ style. Please head over to our Patreon and vote on which style you prefer. (Free to register if you don’t have an account!)
Thanks for your time and I hope you have a great read and week ahead of you!

Stuart Conover

Editor, Horror Tree

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Taking Submissions: Moonlight & Misadventure

Deadline: January 15th, 2021
Payment: $10 USD for reprints and $20 USD for previously unpublished
Theme: Moonlight & Misadventure
Note: Reprints allowed

Call for Short Story Submissions

 

 

Anthology Title: Moonlight & Misadventure: 20-22 Stories of Mystery & Suspense

 

Genre: Short story/mystery/suspense

 

Publisher: Superior Shores Press

 

Editor: Judy Penz Sheluk

 

Deadlines: The deadline for submission is January 15, 2021 or until 100 submissions have been received, whichever comes first. Starting December 2020, the website page will be updated periodically with the number of submissions received. Late submissions and/or submissions after 100 entries have been documented will not be considered.

 

All submissions will be acknowledged within 7 days. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within that time, please Contact Me.

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Anthology / Trembling With Fear

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Trembling With Fear 11/08/20

Focussing on the good news this week – and don’t we need it these days?! I’ve just downloaded the latest issue of Sirens Call ezine and noticed a number of TWF writers in the TOC: the prolific Radar DeBoard is literally book-ending the TOC, and we also see Will H. Blackwell, Jr, RJ Meldrum – the man gets everywhere!, the ever-wonderful Alyson Faye, Patrick Wynn and our reviewer, John C. Adams. Check it out and see what our writers are coming up with in other publications.

Congratulations to John C. Adams on the news of his recent engagement to Jimmy Graves and excellent news too from Patrick Winters who has just come through some major surgery. Here’s love and best wishes to both.

NaNoWriMo is also well underway. It’s one of those times where you can give yourself permission to ignore the housework and just write. I post my numbers and whilst I do tend to double-up whenever I can it’s not for competitive reasons – it’s just that there might be evenings when I cannot do as much as I want because of other demands on my time, eg TWF and Horror Tree work or I might be in a state of mental exhaustion after the day job(!). I’ve seen a few people posting that they’re also on NaNoWriMo. I hope they’re having fun with this and it’s going well.

The first story in Trembling With Fear is Scorch the Earth by Kevin M. Folliard and it reminds me very much of the Men in Black films. His writing also has a strong visual quality transforming the words immediately into that ‘movie in the head’. And I love this bit of dialogue, “You will be a crust of ash on the forest floor. Then carbon in the wind.” He also has a wonderful last line.

1 2 3 4 or The Consequence of the Numerical Sequence by Steven Holding is something different where certain numbers can be misinterpreted with horrific results.

The Opportunist by Connor Long-Johnson contains some nice misdirection and an excellent example of personification.

They All Fall Down by Radar DeBoard is something which, whilst set in a different era, could so easily apply to our own times. I like to see current circumstances or modern preoccupations reflected back at us, it gives the reader a vested interest in the tale and creates an immediate hook.

Enjoy the stories and send us yours!

Take care

Steph

 

Stephanie Ellis

Editor, Trembling With Fear

HELLLO TWF Readers!

For the lovers of fiction out there we have some great stories today and for those of you participating in NaNoWriMo, I hope that you’re meeting all of your writing goals! 

Just a quick reminder, the following sponsor is still supporting the site through the 15th so please do pick up a copy of the anthology if you haven’t already.
– ‘It Calls From the Sky‘ from Eerie River Publishing. This one was edited by A. Robertson-Webb and M. River.

If you’re looking to sponsor the site or even a giveaway please do reach out. Also, we have an extra thank you this year for the sponsors of Horror Tree. If you’ve been a Patreon, sponsor, or have some supported the site in a major way we’re going to be putting together a special Christmas Shopping list that showcases you! Please reach out with what you’d like included and see this post on Patreon for more details!

I don’t have much for you this week. My day job has me SUPER busy once again but I’ll try to have something more for you next week. Have a great one my friends! 

Stuart Conover

Editor, Horror Tree

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Anthology / Events

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Indie Book Launch Roundup

Indie Book Launch Roundup 11/06/20

Click on the book covers for more information.

Got a book to launch, an event to promote or seeking extra work/support as a result of being hit economically by Covid? Get in touch and we’ll promote you here. The post is prepared each Thursday for publication on Friday. Contact us via Horror Tree’s contact address or connect via Twitter or Facebook. And if you scroll to the bottom of the page, you might also find freebie and special offer links!

Support Your Indie Authors and Reviewers

This is a space which I hope will help bring extra work to those who’ve been hit economically by Covid. If you’ve lost your day job, had hours cut, are struggling and have services to offer, a new venture, a patreon page to promote etc, let us know and we’ll plug them here.

Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi’s 25% off Covid 2020 discount for novels and novellas applies until the end of the year. You can also find out about her editorial and publishing services here.

Events

November – HWA Horror University Online – has the following workshops online, open to both members and non-members:

9th November – Done to Death with Tim Waggoner.
Go here for further information https://hwa46.wildapricot.org/event-4011815

10th November, 3pm Pacific time – HWA Skeleton Hour with authors from The Black Cranes anthology. Register for the free webinar here.

Please send us details of any online panels, conventions, festivals and workshops and we’ll list them here.

Latest Book Launches

 

Charity Anthologies

 

30th Oct It Came From The Darkness: A Charity Horror Anthology by [P.J. Blakey-Novis, David Green, C.M. Saunders, Justin Boote, Tim Lebbon, Gemma Paul, D.J. Doyle, Roma Gray, Matthew V. Brockmeyer, Mark Anthony Smith] End Nov

 

 

Horror Tree Sponsor* Releases!

16th Oct

*All Horror Tree sponsors are able to claim a spot at the top of our listing during the donation of their sponsorship. Please use our contact form for more advertising pricing.
 
 

 

October 2020

20thDownwind, Alice 22nd 22nd Foul Womb of Night (Midnight Bites Book 1) by [Elizabeth Donald, Gustavo Bondoni, Adam Stemple] 23rd The Haunting of Hacket House by [Astrid Addams]

25th Within The Fog by [Charles Welch] 26th Forest of Fear 2: An Anthology of Halloween Horror Microfiction (Fright Night Fiction) by [Zoey Xolton, Stacey Jaine McIntosh, J.E. Feldman, Kevin J. Kennedy, Majanka Verstraete, Cindar Harrell, Stuart Conover, Beth W. Patterson, David Green, Valerie Lioudis] 27th 28th F is for Fear (A to Z of Horror Book 6) by [P.J. Blakey-Novis, Renee Miller, David Green, Lee Franklin, Mark Anthony Smith, Donna Cuttress, C.M. Rosens, Ariel Dodson, Bryan Miller, Damir Salkovic]

28th Memento Mori: A horror collection (Shattered bulbs Book 1) by [Sabrann Curach] 29th 30th A Song for the End by [Kit Power]31st The Ancient Ones (The Ancient Ones Trilogy Book 1) by [Cassandra L. Thompson]

31st Ascendant: The Martiniere Legacy Book Two by [Joyce Reynolds-Ward] 31st Full Moon Digest: Stories to read by moonlight by [G.A. Miller] 31st 31st Frankenstein's Mistress: Tales of Love & Monsters by [Michael McCarty, C.L. Sherwood, Holly Zaldivar, Terrie Leigh Relf, R.L. Fox, Cindy McCarty, Sherry Decker, C. Dean Andersson]

November 2020

2nd The Sound of Distant Engines by [Robert Dunn]13th Eight Cylinders by [Jason Parent, Crystal Lake Publishing]14th Bleak Midwinter and Other Christmas Horror Stories by [Charlotte O'Farrell]15th The Worm and His Kings by [Hailey Piper]

15th Realization: The Martiniere Legacy Book Three by [Joyce Reynolds-Ward] 17th The Lupin Project: Amazon.co.uk: Allan Leverone: 9780998416144: Books24th

Offers and Freebies

Free on Kindle 4-6th Nov Prince of Nightmares by [John McNee, Blood Bound Books] Free – always! Stuck On You by [Jasper Bark, Crystal Lake Publishing, Rob Moran]

Only £0.99/$0.99 – ’til 11th Nov 00:00hrs Scattered Little Pieces by [Wayne Fenlon]

Happy reading.

Steph

 on behalf of Stuart and the Horror Tree Team

 

Anthology / Events / Royalties / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Alternative Deathiness

Deadline: March 1st, 2021
Payment: $.02 a word and royalties
Theme: A fun filled romp into the concept and nature of Death.

B Cubed Press is pleased to announce an open call for Alternative Deathiness.  A fun filled romp into the concept and nature of Death.

Seriously what the hell is death, big guy with bones and a sickle? An ominous Tarot Card?  Or is it simply the passing of one thing for another.  A change in phase. Or, it is the ending of you, and just you, a personal FU from the universe that say oopsie, you’re out of here?

So be prepared to look hard at this topic, its rituals, its layers.  Have fun.  May as well,  considering the end comes for us all.

This book will be edited by Bob Brown and Irene Radford, the team that brought you the best selling Alternative Truths.

If you wonder what perspective the editors bring just remember, we’re old.  Our friends are old, our families are old.  Death is beginning to feel more like a roommate than a concept.  So?  Let the stories rip, show no deference to religion, ritual, or sensitivities.  For god’s sake, we’re talking death here!

And don’t try sneaking zombies and ghosts and vampires in to get around death.  Oh we might buy one or two REALLY GOOD Ones, but that isn’t the focus.

Does this mean we will not accept sensitive looks at this from a more popular perspective?  No, but it means that it will be tested against the criteria that the writing be good, and carry an explanation of the nature of death. In terms of what we are looking for, think openly about the concept of death and life, can’t have one without the other.  The setting is open anywhere in time and space.

This book will be part of the best-selling Alternatives series.  We will be accepting stories, poetry, and essays from now through March 1, 2021.

Story length for our books average about 2200 words but have ranged from 100 to 7500 words. However, we only use one or two stories over 5,000 words and our advice is to keep it under 5K, unless we communicate in advance.  Reprints are accepted, but we hold them to a higher standard and limit them in number.

Pays $.02 a word upon publication, plus a share of the profits. As always a share will go to charity, usually ACLU, but that can be changed to something else by agreement with all the contributors. Collaborations will earn 1 share to be split between contributors.

Submissions should adhere to SFWA formatting guidelines https://www.sfwa.org/2005/01/04/manuscript-format/. It’s always good to make an editor happy.

For the first time we are using Moksha, submissions are accepted at https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/alternative-deathiness.

Should you have any questions, please contact Bob at [email protected].

Via: B Cubed Press’s Moksha.