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Deadline: March 15th 2014 Payment: Payment is author share divided equally among the authors. We pay twice a year. At Sky Warrior Books, we’re not above…well, anything. Hence, we love Vampires – but NOT the sparkly kind. We’re betting you love vampires too. So, send us your best work on vampires, original or reprint (must have the rights), of stories 500 to 7000 words in length. Can be fiction, nonfiction, or poetry. Sure, we’ll take standard horror and dark fantasy, but you can be creative. vampires in space, vampire critters, vampire love stories (uh, no erotica or sparkles), fantasy vampires, steampunk vampires, vampire humor (a strong plus), vampires on stakes…well, you get the idea. Payment Payment is author share divided equally among the authors. We pay twice a year. Deadline Our deadline is March 15th, 2014. We’re planning on the e-book coming out in October, just in time for Halloween, and Christmas/Yule/Solstice/Kwanza/Hanukah/Winter Holidays/Did we miss anything? How to Submit or The Nitty-Gritty We accept RTF files via e-mail only to the publisher at [email protected]. Put the words: VAMPIRES DON’T SPARKLE SUBMISSION in the subject line with the title of your piece. Send us a virus and we will never accept anything from you again. Double spaced manuscript in Times New Roman or some other pretty font (not Courier!). Use italics, not underlines. Have your contact information on the manuscript including your email address. Let us know if this is a reprint and from where. Again, be sure you have the rights to reprint – we won’t chase down permissions. Fiction, nonfiction, humor, science fiction, fantasy, light horror, dark fantasy, urban fantasy, etc. No fan fiction or rip offs of popular vampires and unless you are writing humor – your vampires must NOT sparkle! And above all the story MUST HAVE...

Deadline: March 15th, 2014 Payment: Exposure Only “That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.” What We Want: Lovecraft style horror stories, particularly new takes on the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraftian horror is defined as a style of storytelling involving a set of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. The hallmark of Lovecraft’s work is cosmicism: the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in comparison that merely contemplating it would damage the sanity of the ordinary person. Lovecraft’s work is also steeped in the insular feel of rural New England, and much of the genre continues to maintain this sense that “that which man was not meant to know” might be closer to the surface of ordinary life outside of the crowded cities of modern civilization. Word Count: 500-2,500 words. Closing Date: 15 March 2014. Submissions may close sooner if the anthology fills quickly. Reprints: Yes. Multiple Submissions: No. Simultaneous Submissions: No. Payment: This is a non-paying market. Payment for your story is exposure in the anthology. How To Submit: Submit it as a .doc or .rtf attachment to [email protected] with the subject line “Lovecraft”. Include your name, story title, word count, and a brief biography in the body of the email. Via: Dreamscape Press.

Deadline:Martch 15th, 2014 Payment: Equal share of royalties Visionary Press Is Looking for Horror with a Spring related theme. The title has yet to be determined, but think spring break trip gone bad, or perhaps the Easter Egg hunt that didn’t quite go as planned. What did the neighbor bury in her garden last year that has the flowers coming up so… ravenous? Think blood, think gore and be creative.  Word Count is to be 3,000 to 5,000 words. Reading period begins January 15th and ends March 15th. We are looking to publish close to Easter or soon after.  All authors share equally in the royalties.  Mail submissions to [email protected] with the heading, Spring Horror. Via: Visionary Press.