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Tesseracts Fourteen Open For Submissions (Sept. 1, 2009 – Nov. 30, 2009)

Submissions are now open (from September 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009) for volume 14 of the Tesseracts anthology. Tesseracts is the premiere anthology for Canadian short fiction published annually by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, so if you are a Canadian author, feel free to submit your stories, poetry, radio plays, and flash fiction [...]

How to Deliver the Perfect Elevator Pitch

A week ago, I bookmarked a post on io9.com on Delicious entitled “Make You Epic Space Novel Live Up To Your Elevator Pitch” and didn’t look at it until yesterday. Expecting to read an article on how to deliver the perfect elevator pitch I was presented with something verydifferent, leaving me to scratch my head [...]

New Years Resolutions #26, #74 Completed

It’s hard to believe that almost half the year is over and we’re already headlong into spring. It seems like only yesterday I was wearing Long John’s and dreading stepping out into that -20 below frigid temperatures with my hood up, my scarf tucked around my mouth, hoping I didn’t catch frostbite on my way [...]

My Novel Gets Rejected From Writers House, and Why I Couldn’t Care Less

Well six weeks after I was requested sample chapters for my novel, Second Death, I received an email yesterday from Writers House that they will not be accepting me for representation. Am I disappointed? A little, but not near as much as I thought I would be given the circumstances. I finished completing the manuscript [...]

I Get Rejected from Weird Tales Magazine!

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Well, after getting into the second round of submissions and months of waiting it appears the editor of Weird Tales magazine, Ann VanderMeer, has decided to pass on my short story submission ‘The Archer’s Paradox’ for their next issue. Weird Tales remains the longest-running fantasy magazine in [...]

Xbiz World Magazine Purchases Article Submission

Last Friday ( May 30, 2008 ) just a few days after submitting my article “Porn 2.0: How Xtube Ruined Me For Playboy” to Nerve.com, Now Magazine, Xbiz Magazine, and Wired, I heard back from the senior editor of Xbiz World Magazine, Stephen Yagielowicz, who said they’d publish the article in both the print and [...]

How to get a novel published

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I know I’ve been a little lax with my post entries lately but I’ve been pretty busy with school finishing up and am still scrambling to find an internship for the last leg of my program in book and magazine publishing. Nonetheless, I [...]

A Note on Cover Letters

If you’ve never submitted a short story or freelance article to a magazine before it can seem bewildering to someone with little experience in such matters. However, it can also be relatively simple. For the case of this post I’m only referring to cover letters sent in with short stories (I’ll save cover [...]