[Writingworkshop] Fwd: Re: Submitting sci fi short stories

[Neale Morison]

Thanks Chris. That's great information. So the web addresses are:

Asimovs Science Fiction
http://www.asimovs.com/
Submissions and Guidelines
http://www.asimovs.com/info/guidelines.shtml

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/
Submissions and Guidelines
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm

Analog
http://www.analogsf.com/0805/issue_05.shtml
Submissions and Guidelines
http://www.analogsf.com/information/submissions.shtml

It's funny that they all want paper submissions. Not exactly a sci-fi 
paperless world in sci-fi publishing. Haven't they all got Kindles?
At the rate they pay you'd have to write four 10,000 word stories a week 
and have them all accepted to make a living writing short stories. Joe 
was right. You pretty much have to write novels, ideally series of 
n-ologies where n is greater than ten, and ideally sell the film rights 
to the whole series. Or else get an honest job.
Still, there's the challenge.

Christopher Robichaud wrote:
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>     Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:13:22 -0400
>     From: Christopher Robichaud <cjrobi at mit.edu>
> Reply-To: Christopher Robichaud <cjrobi at mit.edu>
>  Subject: Re: [Writingworkshop] Submitting sci fi short stories
>       To: Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>
>
> I say go for the gold, first, and then see what happens. The gold includes The
> Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Asimov's, and Analog.
> Depending on how
> science-fictiony your stuff is, there's also Realm of Fantasy. Strange
> Horizons
> is good too, from what I'm told, though I don't think it's included in
> the gold
> and I think it's just online. Apex is another up-and-comer. If your stuff is
> scary/weird, there's always Cemetery Dance and Weird Tales, two golds in that
> category.
>
>  From what I'm told, MFSF has a very quick turnover and Asimov's has a
> very slow
> one. Average is a couple of months. My strategy will be to round-robin them,
> that is, to send out one story to each and then "turn the dial" if/when the
> rejections come. That way I'm not wasting any time waiting to hear back from
> one before sending a submission to another. That plan requires me having
> multiple stories to send out, and I have two so far that I'm happy with
> and one
> that I'm almost happy with, but I'm gonna wait 'til I have five or six
> and then
> proceed. Some magazines don't care if you send the same story to multiple
> places.
>
> I'm not a big fan of writing short flash fiction, at least not now, but
> I'm told
> there's always folks looking for stuff to put into flash anthologies and the
> like. That's something I haven't investigated.
>
> Can't wait to see your stories in print in Nature, Neale!
>
> -Chris
>
>
> Quoting Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>:
>
>   
>> Hi all.
>> If you were going to submit a short sci story, say 2500-4000 words, to
>> any publisher, who would you try?
>> Are there any publishers who might be interested in very short stories,
>> 800 -1000 words, other than the Nature Futures section?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Neale
>>
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