5 Interesting New Markets for Short Stories

Here are 5 new publishers looking for your stories. They vary in the things they are looking for and how much they pay but they all look very interesting. 1.After the Happily Ever After (AHEA) Anthology Transmundane Press are looking for more stories for their After the Happily Ever After anthology. Do you think the…

The Magic of Short Stories

For the first post on the new setup, I give you a great quote on short stories from Michael Kelly, the man behind Shadows & Tall Trees and Best Weird Fiction anthologies. I love short stories. I love the way they whisk you away to another place. I love how compact short stories are. You…

“Sit down. I’ll tell you”

I just read a great short story. It's a little disturbing and I don't think I'll ever look at sleepwalking the same way again. The story in question is Megan Neumann's It Must Feed, in the horror anthology Not Your Average Monster from Bloodshot Books. The story tells the tale of two sisters, Abby and…

Hi. I’m Johann and I´m a Lucky Writer

You can now finally hear something I've been wanting to brag about for weeks: A story of mine will be reprinted in the Apex Book of World SF 4. Being in a reprint anthology was a reach-for-the-stars kind of goal for me, something I thought would be years away in my career as a writer.…

3 Books To Read While You Wait for Winds of Winter

It was recently reported that the next book in George Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, Winds of Winter, would not be out in 2015, and I could almost hear the moans of disappointed fans all over the world. However, there is plenty of good stuff by Mr. Martin that should sate any…

3 Great Recently Read Short Stories

It can be hard to find good short stories, what with the sheer volume that is out there right now, and even harder to maintain focus to read one while Facebook and Twitter beckon. So I'll make it easy for you and point out 3 stories I read in the last few days that were…

11 Quotes on Fiction and Writing | George Saunders

You know those times when you read something fantastic and afterwards you are in a bit of a daze?  That just happened to me, as I finished George Saunders short story collection, Tenth of December. It was named one of the best books of the year by a few places you may recognize: People •…

4 New Books or…. Money, Meet Mouth

Don't you just love it when you come home to discover that you got new books in the mail? Yeah, me too. This is just what happened today; 4 new books in a box. There was a little Baader-Meinhof phenomenon surprise waiting for me as I unpacked them, almost to the point of being creepy.…

Read Any Good Books Lately? I Did.

I'm about to finish the last couple of stories in an anthology called The New Black, and soon so will you. I read a lot of anthologies but so far this year, The New Black is the standout. I was thrown off at first because of two things; my idea of "noir", which all these…

3 of the Best Short Stories I’ve Read This September

I read a surprising amount of short stories every month. I have so many anthologies on my Kindle that it is positively bursting.  The bus I take to work allows me to read a short story on the way to work and on the way back. Two short stories per day. These days I'm mostly working…