From: CMyersTex@... [mailto:CMyersTex@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:07 AM
To: cynthiasterling@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CynthiaSterling] Market News for week of August 5, 2007




I'm going to begin this week's newsletter with a look at two good markets for both short and long works of science fiction and fantasy.

First is Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com) This beautiful quarterly publication is interested in all types of science fiction and fantasy, including "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)." They pay 6 cents a word for the first 7500 words and 5 cents a word thereafter. The word limit is pretty wide open, since this is an online publication. Submissions should be made through the submission form on the website.

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Jim Baen's Universe (www.baensuniverse.com) is another beautiful online publication, this one bi-monthly. The publication recently re-opened to submissions. Editors are looking for all kinds of science fiction and fantasy stories, or various lengths. At least two slots per issue are dedicated to new writers. They have a complicated pay structure, ranging from 6 cents a word for new writers, to 8 to 15 cents a word for slush pile manuscripts from more established writers, to 25 cents a word for commissioned works. In addition, they pay royalties if the magazine reprints the story in paper and some other circumstances detailed in their guidelines. Length is wide open here, from short stories to novellas. They have a lot to say about the length debate in their guidelines as well, so do check them out.

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Light Sword Publishing (www.lightswordpublishing.com/index.html) is a small press that publishes romance (contemporary, historical, romantic suspense and paranormal), children's books, suspense, thriller, fantasy, mystery and science fiction books and some nonfiction. Begun by author Linda Daly and Bonny Kirby, Light Sword published trade paper editions. Authors should query first. Submission guidelines are available on the web site.

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Stephanie Lane has been promoted to senior editor at Delacorte Children's

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Check out the cover for my November Blaze, Wild Child, at tinyurl.com/37xtuy

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Cindi Myers
A Wedding in Paris, Harlequin Anthology, June 12, 2007
Men at Work, Blaze Anthology, July 1, 2007
www.CindiMyers.com