Thanks to Tom Waters, a Writers of the Future finalist and up and coming writer for his review of the On Spec issue in which my story “From the Sea” appeared. His rating system is quick and to the point and he gave “From the Sea” a four out of five star rating. Yay!
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Most readers probably know that I subscribe to Black Gate and On Spec fairly regularly but there are other magazines I have subscriptions for (or have had subscriptions for). I allocate a budget for magazine subscriptions and every year I choose *different* magazines to subscribe in. Even if I find a magazine I like, I [...]
More»Very thrilled to note via Whatever that Asimov’s is now accepting electronic submissions. Now I’m down to only three markets I submit to regularly that require postal subs (and I’ve heard that On Spec is moving towards electronic as well).
See Asimov’s guidelines here.
Another great issue full of fun stories from On Spec.
Orchids by Christopher Johnstone
A man searching for odd creatures — and always disappointed — goes to a forest looking for a dryad. A good story, with an interesting take on the dryad as creature and theme.
Carter Hall Judges the Lines by Marissa Lingen
Carter Hall has [...]
On Spec has put online a free digital copy of issue #76.
Check it out here.
And if you like it (and you will ), please consider voting for On Spec in the Aurora Awards!
“A Ragman’s Vow” which is the first story I had published in On Spec has been reprinted in A Thousand Faces #11, a superhero themed magazine. A Thousand Faces has a somewhat unique distribution in that all of the stories can be read online, for free, or a print version can be ordered with the [...]
More»The shortlist for the Prix Aurora Awards have been announced.
BEST NOVEL IN ENGLISH :
THE AMULET OF AMON-RA, by Leslie Carmichael, CBAY Books
DRUIDS, by Barbara Galler-Smith and Josh Langston, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy
WAKE, Robert J. Sawyer, Penguin Canada
STEEL WHISPERS, Hayden Trenholm, Bundoran Press
TERRA INSEGURA, Edward Willett, DAW Books
BEST SHORT-FORM WORK IN ENGLISH:
“PAWNS DREAMING [...]
Up at EssentialWriters.com is a review of the Fall 2009 issue of On Spec. Nice things are said about this issue of the magazine, including a new review for my story “From the Sea”.
Thanks to Judy Darley for the kind words and kudos go out to all the other authors who produced such fine [...]
A nice review from SFCrowsnest about my story “From the Sea” in On Spec #78
…This story is not very heavy on fantasy but it’s perceptive about humans. The bleak setting and the hard life of a fishing village were well conveyed and the story was quite moving.
Read the full review here.
In all they really liked [...]
Every year Rich Horton’s does a year end summary of all the fiction he has read in the year (how does he find the time to read all these magazines?!). He has recently posted his summary for On Spec 2009.
Last year he said he liked “A Ragman’s Vow” and this year he mentioned me [...]
