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The lifecycle of a short story
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THE LIFECYCLE OF A SHORT STORY
LYNNE M. THOMAS AND MICHAEL DAMIAN THOMAS
UNCANNY MAGAZINE
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WHERE ARE THE MARKETS?
• SFWA Eligibility List• Tracking• Submission Grinder• Ralan • Duotrope
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PROFESSIONAL VS PRESTIGE MARKETS
• Professional rates• Exposure• For the love
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SUBMISSION LIFECYCLE: SELECT YOUR MARKET
1. Read the magazines/markets2. Read the guidelines3. Start at the top, work down
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SUBMIT YOUR STORY
1. Standard Manuscript Format2. Cover Letter: Less is more 3. First Readers: They are YOU.4. The numbers game
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REJECTOMANCY
1. Form rejections from first readers2. Personalized rejections from first readers
(where applicable)3. Making it to the fiction editors (YAY!)4. Personalized rejections from fiction editors
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REVISE AND RESUBMIT
• Less common•No guarantees, but general intent to
purchase if revisions approved
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STORY PURCHASED ! WOO HOO! WHAT NOW?• Contract• Line Edits• Copy Edits• Proofs• Publication
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PROMOTION!
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REPRINTS
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SFWA QUALIFYING MARKETS & SHORT FICTION VENUES• AE
• Analog Science Fiction & Fact
• Apex (June 2008-)
• Arc Manor
• Asimov’s Science Fiction
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Buzzy Mag
• Cemetery Dance
• Cicada
• Clarkesworld
• Cosmos
• Cricket
• Crossed Genres
• Daily Science Fiction
• Diabolical Plots
• Escape Pod
• Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
• Flash Fiction Online
• Galaxy’s Edge Magazine
• Grantville Gazette (May
2007-)
• Highlights
• Interfictions Online
• Lightspeed Magazine
• The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
• Nature
• Nightmare Magazine
• Odyssey
• Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine
Show
• Star Citizen Jump Point Magazine
• Strange Horizons
• Tor.com
• Uncanny Magazine
• Unlikely Story
• Writers of the Future Anthology
http://www.sfwa.org/about/join-us/sfwa-membership-requirements/#qualify
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SUBMISSION RESOURCESSubmission Grinder (Free: you add your data)
http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com
Duotrope (NOT free: you still add your data)
https://dupotrope.com
Ralan (market list only: no additional data)
http://www.ralan.com
Standard Manuscript Format: Short Story
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
Standard Manuscript Format: Novel
http://www.shunn.net/format/novel.html
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QUESTIONS?