Thursday, September 30, 2010

Market News

First up is great essay by Juliette Wade on character arcs. When you're writing stories things should change for your characters, they should be affected by their actions and the actions of others. If they stay the same from the beginning to the end of the story, what was the point of writing it? Unless, of course, they're James Bond or Jack Reacher, then you expect your character not to change. http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/2010/09/character-arcs-how-characters-change.html

Sniplits has announced that they'll be closing to submissions on October 31. Until then they'll be accepting stories in the following genres: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Humor, Lit, Mystery/Crime, Suspense/Thriller, Romance, Sports and Westerns. This is a paying market and they do accept reprints. http://sniplits.com/

There are 14 slots left in A Twist of Noir's 100 flash pieces extravaganza. You can find the details for the 600 to 700 flash challenge here http://a-twist-of-noir.blogspot.com/

The September issue of Storyglossia is up http://www.storyglossia.com/ They're also reading stories for issue #40 which will go live at the end of October.

And issue #4 of All Due Respect is up with a short story called "Even Sven" by Mike Toomey. http://www.all-due-respect.blogspot.com/

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