Thursday, October 15, 2009

Market Sources

I recently ran across DL Snells Market Scoops blog. While he doesn't seem to post a great deal of content on a regular basis, he does have some very interesting interviews with magazine editors on the site. The latest of these is an interview with the editor of Shock Totem http://marketscoops.blogspot.com/2009/10/shock-totem.html If you're considering submitting to this market you'll find a lot of detail on what they're looking for. And if you're not considering them as a market you'll still find a great deal of good advice for making your story the best it can be no matter what market you're submitting to. There are other interviews on the site and well worth your time to scroll through and read them. I find that most editors are after the same things in a short story, something that is well-written and hits the mark for their target audience.

For those of you who write spec-fiction, I found SpecFic World. http://www.specficworld.com/ is full of market news and information about writing in this genre.

I'll be putting the links to these two sites in the Market Sources column to the left.

*** A late addition that I forgot to include. The Cynthia Sterling Newsletter is now going to be a blog instead a newsletters coming through her Yahoo group. http://cindimyersmarketnews.wordpress.com/ is the new url.

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