Taking Submissions: Grumpy Old Gods Vol. 3 Halloween Edition
Deadline: June 29th, 2019 Payment: Royalty Split The Grumpy Gods are back for another round, and this time, we’re celebrating all those spooky myths! That’s right! Ancient cultures might not have celebrated Halloween exactly, but every mythology has stories that can be mined for great scary tales. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: We’re looking for stories from 3000-4000 words in length, concerning ghosts, ghouls, underworlds, and just plain creepy critters that give you the heebie-jeebies. Ideally, this anthology will have a great mix of the wit and humor our readers crave and enough chills and thrills to make it a fun Halloween read. We want stories of cantankerous gods, aging heroes, and creepy critters that are about to get a whole barrel of well-earned karma. Ghosts that get the last laugh, curses gone awry. Just make sure there is an aging, waning, defunct, or otherwise AWOL god or goddess in the mix. Is that a tall order? Sure. You might even say it is a Herculean task. But we know you guys are up to it! SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Submissions are due June 29th, 2019 with an eye to releasing the anthology mid-to-late September. Required: Must Have (Grumpy Old Gods 3 Submission) in the Subject Line of your Email to be read. **NOTE**If you just put Grumpy Old Gods (without the 3) we will assume it is a submission sent for the first two anthologies in this series. (Grumpy 1 and 2 submissions are both closed. ) This helps us sort through our emails and spot G3 among all the emails sent and other communication about other Grumpy anthologies. So PLEASE be specific to get noticed by labeling correctly. (Amendment added April 25th, 2019–applies to all emails after this date.) Genre: Speculative Fiction. What is Speculative Fiction? Well, Wikipedia says… “It encompasses the genres of...
