[kalitara]

Our publisher is looking for short stories and poems to publish with a weekly newsletter. Please see Blue Moose Press (http://www.bluemoosepress.com) for more details and a link for submission.

Christine

[kalitara]

Really? No one wants to have their stories read?
I'm quite surprised!!

[lin]

Perhaps many are reacting like, "Read by whom? Some people on the email list of a personal publishing project?"

Or maybe not, maybe you'll get some response.

[kalitara]

I understand. Thanks for the thoughts!

Perhaps I should be more clear then. My (albeit small) publisher has a database of over 10,000 fantasy fans (and growing)... so that's who they will be read by.

[Loftlore]

Our publisher is looking for short stories and poems to publish with a weekly newsletter. Please see Blue Moose Press (http://www.bluemoosepress.com) for more details and a link for submission.

Christine

Hell, I've got three hundred thousand words of a fantasy trilogy I'd like to see published. The chapter titles alone make up enough text to be a short story!

[BrianC]

I looked at the site out of curiosity but the submission guidelines are non-existant. Without any information as to what is being sought, what do you expect people to do? I'm not necessarily opposed to sending a story to a publisher's newsletter, but I've learned through hard experience that submissions must be narrowly targeted to have any chance of being accepted.

When the Blue Moose guidelines are actually up I'll see if I have anything that sounds appropriate for submission.

[kalitara]

I just went to the website, too ... and here is what it said under "Submissions"

Blue Moose Press is always looking for fresh, entertaining content. Start by submitting your short story (between 1,000 and 4,000 words) or poem to us for our weekly newsletter today! We're especially looking for work in the fantasy genre.


Submit Your Story


We are not yet accepting manuscript submissions for works longer than 4,000 words. Works longer than 4,000 that can be serialized in no more than four issues will also be considered.

[kalitara]

Hell, I've got three hundred thousand words of a fantasy trilogy I'd like to see published. The chapter titles alone make up enough text to be a short story!


Sounds great! Can the first part of the trilogy be serialized?

[BrianC]

"Fantasy genre." Hmm. Well, that tells me next to nothing--not quite nothing--but next to it. How can I know that what I'm submitting is anywhere close to what is going to be published? Here is a reference for you (from the Intergalactic Medicine Show):

We are looking for stories of any length in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.

"Science fiction" includes hard sf, sf adventure, alternate history, near-future, far-future, psi, alien, and any other kind of sf you can think of.

"Fantasy" includes heroic fantasy (based on any culture's mythology), fairy tales, contemporary fantasy, and "horror" in the sense of supernatural suspense (not gory bloodfests, thanks).

Within these genres, we like to see well-developed milieus and believable, engaging characters. We also look for clear, unaffected writing. Asimov, Niven, Tolkien, Yolen, and Hobb are more likely to be our literary exemplars than James Joyce.

Now if I'm writing dense Joycean prose, or stuff where blood splatters everything, I know not to waste my time sending stuff to IGMS.

Still, I tell you what, I'm going to take a chance because you seem so nice here. I'll send you a story that I happen to have unengaged just now, but I have no idea if it's even close to what the editor wants to see.

Edit: Okay, I read some of the previous stories in the newletter and I feel better about submitting. At least I know that I'm not entirely out of bounds. Also, I'm very impressed that there is a free PDF of Rowan of the Wood on the webiste as I'm very interested in FREE books distributed through the internet. Do you mind if I do a link to it (and maybe a short review) on my blog?

[Loftlore]

Sounds great! Can the first part of the trilogy be serialized?

Loftlore is, of course, in chapters. I have maintained a twenty eight chapter format (for my own personal obsessive/compulsive reasons) throughout the three books. However, chapters notwithstanding the trilogy's first book is eighty four thousand words long! I looked at the submission requirements and see no possible way to serialize the first book.
Whatever.
As a side note, were any of you aware that many of Charles Dickens works were first published serialized in a newspaper? It's perfectly true. As a writer, I see the advantages of this. Who can afford a sloppy-slow submission to a serial when each and every portion must stand on its own strengths, its own merits!