Find Your Market

Hi guys!

Sorry for the slight delay, I was out of the country this weekend and I thought I wouldn't be delayed upon returning home. I was wrong.

Anyway, here's the second part of the Let's Get Published challenge. Only three people (your truly included) responded to the first part of this challenge, but that's ok. I'll pretend there's a lot of people in the background who weren't at all interested in feedback (incidentally, if you are interested, you can still reply to the previous journal: aspiringauthors.deviantart.com… If anybody pops up I'll be offering them feedback myself ).

So, do you have a novelette (7500 words - 15000 words) in the works? Wondering where you're going to get it published?

Mention the following facts here:
-how long is it? (the more exact, the better)
-what genre is it (fantasy? horror? romance? magic realism?)
-any other details would be very, very welcome, because then I'll know what to look for.

I'll post possible interesting markets in this journal. You aren't obligated to choose any of them, or to submit anything. Have fun

Edit: Ok, I was expecting more people asking for markets, instead of just one.

But, let's see. About 10.000 words, science fiction, open to various types of stories.

Option number 1: Unstuck Books. They're only open for submissions from time to time, for a few days, but they're open from now until the 1st of November. From what I hear they're a difficult-ish market to get into and you'd get $50 for your story.

Option number 2: Giganotosaurus. They only publish 1 story per month, so they're difficult to get into as well. You get $100 for your submission.

Option number 3: Nine. A magazine that publishes 9 stories and offers 9% royalties to each author. They offer at least $40.

Option number 4: Asimov's. I'm linking to their submission guidelines instead of their home page, because their guidelines are hard to find. They're a very reputable publisher, quite well paying, but very hard to get into. They're especially interested in character-oriented stories.

Option number 5: Nil Desperandum. They're interested in stories about "Truth, Life and the Human Condition", but aside from that they take any genre. The interesting part is that they release stories in audio format instead of written format. They accept stories easier than the other markets - and they pay $70 for stories over 10.000 words ($50 for under).

Option number 6: Leading Edge. They're interested in all speculative fiction, they take more than 1 in 10 stories and they pay 1 cent/word, up to $50. Unfortunately, they have a backlog of 4-6 months, so replies are really slow. The fun part is, however, that they offer critique.

Option number 7: If you've never been published, it's worth checking out a contest as well. Namely, Writers of the Future. You retain all rights to your story. It might be interesting to check out.

Option number 8: Tor.com. THE market when it comes to sci fi/fantasy. Very hard to get into, but very reputable and pays 25 cents/word for the first 5,000 words, if I recall correctly. And then less, but still a lot.

Good luck!