[ SECRET POST #2210 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2210 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I made the move to original fiction a long time ago and never looked back.

If you're writing short SF/F/H, though (specifically those genres, because the markets for those are much thicker on the ground than literary, romance, or mystery), I'd urge you to try to get published in professional venues first before putting it up on Amazon. The money is way better if you can break in.

[deadtree]

what do you mean thicker on the ground?

[(Anonymous)]

There are more professionally-paying markets (five cents a word or more) for short fiction in the SF/F/H genres than the others.

Once you get into novel-length stuff, it's more even, and romance actually accounts for 50% of fiction novel sales. But for short fiction, the markets that actually pay anything are in the SF/F/H genres.

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP. I'm a fic writer looking to write and sell some short SF/F stories. Any recs on where to look and/or how to break in? Most everywhere I've found is only buying from current authors they have on staff/payroll/ect or only take free submissions. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I start at the top and work my way down. Fantasy and Science Fiction (they only take snail mail subs, but they have a ridiculously fast turnaround time, like, a week), Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lore, Lightspeed. Clarkesworld. Strange Horizons. Buzzy Mag.

Writers of the Future is awesome; I know a lot of writers who have gotten their start there. Don't let L. Ron's name put you off. I'm serious. I sub there first and try to every quarter.

Those are the top tier and where I sub first. Check the guidelines and SUB. Good luck!

[(Anonymous)]

OH. Asimov's and Analog, too, for SF. And Cosmos, which is an Aussie science mag, if you're under 4000 words. I got my first pro sale through them.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Be sure to follow the guidelines. Most markets still want Standard Manuscript Format, but some want web format and some want plain text. Edit your manuscript to within an inch of its life; get rid of typos, make sure your spelling is up to snuff, etc. Don't give them a reason to reject it right out of the box.

William Shunn (http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html) has a sort of tutorial on Standard Manuscript Format. Follow it if that's what the market says it wants.

Most of all, keep writing. Don't just rest on one story waiting for it to sell. While that's out on submission, be working on the next one, and the one after that, and the one after that.

Re: SA

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks anon I will be using these tips!

Re: SA

[(Anonymous)]

It's a rough, discouraging business, I'm not gonna lie. I've been slogging at it for six years and am still determined to do it the old-fashioned way. Jay Lake took ten years to break in, though, and now he's got awards and is everywhere. So.

And acceptance letters are solid gold. I have a few of them, and I treasure every one.