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Published by zentao7.com writers group in their July 7, 2004 newsletter
The Word in Writing by B.J. Muntain
Vol 1, Issue 1
Welcome to the first issue of The Word in Writing. It seems I'm an easy mark -- say something nice, and I'm willing to take on the world. Of course, I do find that market-searching is a useful form of procrastination, and I do like to share...
New Markets
Note: These are new and unproven markets. They sound interesting, but try them at your own risk.
Aio Publishing is a new publishing house specializing in a certain type of science fiction. "Our mission is to produce densely written sociological fiction with deeply developed characters and to present it to the reader as a work of art." For more information, see their web page.
Prometheus Books has a new science fiction and fantasy imprint called Pyr. More information can be found at
their web site.
Amazing Stories is back! The first issue of the new millennium should hit the shelves this month, July 2004. Dave Gross, the new editor-in-chief, says, "In the 21st century, the genre audience extends way beyond prose readers, and Amazing Stories will connect with that audience by covering the cross-media gamut of sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, and supernatural horror."
Writers guidelines can be found here.
Lenox Avenue, a new bimonthly speculative fiction electronic magazine, is also debuting this month. Submission guidelines
here.
Surreal Magazine is a new quarterly magazine for supernatural, horror and occult stories. It plans to debut January, 2005.
You can find the writer's guidelines
here.
Closed markets
Century Magazine is on hiatus and not accepting any submissions.
Fantastic Stories is overbooked and currently closed to submissions until 2005.
Playboy: Rumour has it that Playboy is no longer accepting genre fiction.
Terra Incognita is on indefinite hiatus.
Changes
Argosy Magazine and Pyr:
Argosy's senior editor, Lou Anders, has left the magazine to become Editorial Director of Pyr, Prometheus Books' new science fiction and fantasy imprint. For more information on Pyr, see its web page listed under 'New Markets.'
Star*Line, the Journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, has changed editors. Marge Simon is taking the place of Tim Pratt.
Interzone, the science fiction and fantasy magazine, has been sold by founder, editor and publisher, David Pringle, to TTA Press. It will now be edited by Andy Cox. This change takes place with issue 194, (about August/September 2004). More details at
their web site.
Gardner Dozois, editor of Asimov's Science Fiction for almost 20 years, is passing the mantle on to Sheila Williams. Any future submissions to Asimov's should be directed to her. Dozois will remain at Asmiov's as a Contributing Editor, while pursuing other projects, including his own writing. Read more about it at their website.
Other news
One June 21, 2004, the first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, made its debut into space. Read more about this historical achievement
here.
The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame opened its doors June 18, 2004. You can find the Museum's web page
here.
Author's Note
Since this is a new feature, I'm open to any and all suggestions. I've limited this to new, closed and changed markets so far. (I just had to include the exciting news about SpaceShipOne and the museum, even though both happened in June.) I can't promise every listing will be this long, since I had a lot of previous news to catch up on, but I'll try. Contact BJ with your writers market news.
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