by Jalyn Fiske, Kristen Koopman, and Jean Asselin

As writers ourselves, we understand the energy and passion that goes into writing stories, and we want you to succeed. Paramount to success is reading a market’s guidelines because they let you know: Who we are as a market; What we want for stories; When we are open for submissions; Where we stand on formatting; Why that’s vital; and How to submit.

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On Rewriting Speculative Fiction

March 20th, 2023|

The challenge peculiar to SF: You’re trying to show, not tell. But how do you “show" a world that, to one degree or another, is unknown, unique, and may even operate by physics that are different from the laws your reader subconsciously applies?

On Following Instead of Fighting

August 27th, 2022|

How do you find the discipline to keep writing? Especially through patches when, for whatever reason, the material resists you?

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