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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > Publishing Short Fiction: The Megathread
 
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Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



 I made it to the final selection stage for Flash Fiction Online, but didn't get in. When I got the rejection, they said I could request feedback, which I did. So I guess FFO will do feedback, at least if you make it far enough.

Do you guys worry about getting a "reputation" with the editors of a particular journal? "Oh it's Pham Nuwen again, he always sends us bullshit" or are they just so overworked they're not likely to remember you at all unless you're exceptionally bad or exceptionally good?

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Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



 By the way, here's a new market that just popped up on The Submission Grinder: http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Index/4905

http://bingewatchingcure.com/

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The Binge-Watching Cure

edited by Bill Adler Jr.

How do you cure your Netflix (or Amazon, Google movie, or Hulu) addiction and return to your first love, reading books? You know you want to read more. You know you enjoy reading. You know you look forward to finishing a book because then you can start a new adventure.

But how? How do you get into reading when the siren call of streaming movies becomes more powerful every year? A three-hundred page novel is daunting in the face of Netflix and friends’ wonders. It’s too easy to put on pajamas, pour a glass of wine, and offer your eyes to a TV, tablet, or computer screen until sleep summons you.

Enter The Binge-Watching Cure: Fabulous Stories that Start Small and Grow Longer, edited by Bill Adler Jr. The Binge-Watching Cure will be an anthology of short stories of increasing size. The first story will be 100 words—anyone can read that. The next, 200 words. Then 500, then longer, all the way to novella length. By the time you’ve finished reading The Binge-Watching Cure, you’ll be able to tackle Joyce and Pynchon. Or at the very least, you’ll enjoy novels you hear about from friends and family. The Binge-Watching Cure will reignite your love for reading; it will better your life.
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Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010

Pham Nuwen posted:

By the way, here's a new market that just popped up on The Submission Grinder: http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Index/4905

http://bingewatchingcure.com/

Just got a response from the editor saying my story has been read and made it to the "consider for publication" folder. I submitted 6 days ago, so it's a pretty good turnaround time.

Is it appropriate to send a reply email saying thanks, or would he be happier if I just leave his inbox un-cluttered?

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Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010

ravenkult posted:

Just send it to anthologies that open up here and there. Plenty of places to sell to.

Depending on the length, submissions are still open for the "binge watching cure anthology", edited by Bill Adler Jr. who's apparently got a decent reputation. I submitted one of my stories and got a personalized response quite quickly, so maybe give that a shot? Simultaneous submissions are also OK, and they pay $200 for < 5,000 words, $500 for > 5,000 words.

http://bingewatchingcure.com/

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Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



 In entering a new submission to the Submission Grinder, I discovered a 250 word piece I'd written some time ago but forgot about, so after a quick cleanup I now have two very short pieces out there waiting for responses.

In other news, http://bingewatchingcure.com/ appears to be 19 days from closing submissions, so get your stories in if you've got something sitting around. I got a very fast response to mine, and the concept is kind of neat.

Edit: Fantasy & Science Fiction's submission system lets you see your exact position in the queue and frankly it's maddening :f5:

Pham Nuwen fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Dec 13, 2016

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