THE LIFECYCLE OF A SHORT STORY

LYNNE M. THOMAS AND MICHAEL DAMIAN THOMAS

UNCANNY MAGAZINE

WHERE ARE THE MARKETS?

• SFWA Eligibility List• Tracking• Submission Grinder• Ralan • Duotrope

PROFESSIONAL VS PRESTIGE MARKETS

• Professional rates• Exposure• For the love

SUBMISSION LIFECYCLE: SELECT YOUR MARKET

1. Read the magazines/markets2. Read the guidelines3. Start at the top, work down

SUBMIT YOUR STORY

1. Standard Manuscript Format2. Cover Letter: Less is more 3. First Readers: They are YOU.4. The numbers game

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

REVISE AND RESUBMIT

• Less common•No guarantees, but general intent to

purchase if revisions approved

STORY PURCHASED ! WOO HOO! WHAT NOW?• Contract• Line Edits• Copy Edits• Proofs• Publication

PROMOTION!

REPRINTS

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

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

QUESTIONS?