THE LIFECYCLE OF A SHORT STORY LYNNE M. THOMAS AND MICHAEL DAMIAN THOMAS UNCANNY MAGAZINE
THE LIFECYCLE OF A SHORT STORY
LYNNE M. THOMAS AND MICHAEL DAMIAN THOMAS
UNCANNY MAGAZINE
WHERE ARE THE MARKETS?
• SFWA Eligibility List• Tracking• Submission Grinder• Ralan • Duotrope
PROFESSIONAL VS PRESTIGE MARKETS
• Professional rates• Exposure• For the love
SUBMISSION LIFECYCLE: SELECT YOUR MARKET
1. Read the magazines/markets2. Read the guidelines3. Start at the top, work down
SUBMIT YOUR STORY
1. Standard Manuscript Format2. Cover Letter: Less is more 3. First Readers: They are YOU.4. The numbers game
REJECTOMANCY
1. Form rejections from first readers2. Personalized rejections from first readers
(where applicable)3. Making it to the fiction editors (YAY!)4. Personalized rejections from fiction editors
REVISE AND RESUBMIT
• Less common•No guarantees, but general intent to
purchase if revisions approved
STORY PURCHASED ! WOO HOO! WHAT NOW?• Contract• Line Edits• Copy Edits• Proofs• Publication
PROMOTION!
REPRINTS
SFWA QUALIFYING MARKETS & SHORT FICTION VENUES• AE
• Analog Science Fiction & Fact
• Apex (June 2008-)
• Arc Manor
• Asimov’s Science Fiction
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Buzzy Mag
• Cemetery Dance
• Cicada
• Clarkesworld
• Cosmos
• Cricket
• Crossed Genres
• Daily Science Fiction
• Diabolical Plots
• Escape Pod
• Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
• Flash Fiction Online
• Galaxy’s Edge Magazine
• Grantville Gazette (May
2007-)
• Highlights
• Interfictions Online
• Lightspeed Magazine
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Nature
• Nightmare Magazine
• Odyssey
• Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine
Show
• Star Citizen Jump Point Magazine
• Strange Horizons
• Tor.com
• Uncanny Magazine
• Unlikely Story
• Writers of the Future Anthology
http://www.sfwa.org/about/join-us/sfwa-membership-requirements/#qualify
SUBMISSION RESOURCESSubmission Grinder (Free: you add your data)
http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Duotrope (NOT free: you still add your data)
https://dupotrope.com
Ralan (market list only: no additional data)
http://www.ralan.com
Standard Manuscript Format: Short Story
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
Standard Manuscript Format: Novel
http://www.shunn.net/format/novel.html
QUESTIONS?