Replies on submitting

Like you, Tortoise and I are both writers. The one thing we have found frustrating is that when receiving a reply from a publisher or an editor: there are no reasons given, only yes or no. This gives the poor, lonely writer little to go on. We, however, independently of each other, have decided one of the things we would like to do differently is to give real feedback on both the good and the bad.

We hope you find it helpful, and we will try and be respectful of your work. We know there is a little bit of your soul amongst the words.

Slush Wrangler blurb

The infamous Slush Wrangler, aka the Tortoise, is a mildly published individual with a horror of adverbs. Oh, no! There’s one now. Sneaking up, tortoise bashes its head in with a hammer. Contrary to the nickname, stories will be read promptly. Another one. Whips out a knife. Shwoosh! Snick! Preferring pulp to literature, the Tortoise is Ms. Mitchell’s evil twin, separated at birth, and raised by … well … tortoises.

Messing with site

I am still trying to figure BlogSpot out. When you come back there will changes. I still need to live up to my promise to Ralan's and post their banner. I will figure this out.

Feel free to send stories, poems, art, recordings our way.

NEWS...

After much putting off, we are back up. I found the energy again after an illness that took much longer to recover from than I would have liked.

I've got some more folks helping out. Once we work things out, I hope to have her do her own intro. Not sure of too much yet, but she’ll get her picks and so will I.

We'll be on YouTube. I started the recordings already.

http://www.youtube.com/user/AliceNread.

Although DWoS will have its own channel.

We plan on putting together an anthology with the theme of: CATS. So feel free to send those in too.

We will spilt all cash with our writers. We hope for around 12, so that means split 14 ways.

No cute stories.

No true stories.

We want fantasy, SF or horror or something between.

If you have art send it too.

Word count: 50 - 5000 for fiction.

We'd like a short, boi too.

Send to:

Aliceingoreland @ yahoo . com

Note the open spaces. Please close them.

Place your stuff in the body of the email is fine or as a file.

Please say SUBMISSION on the subject line and the title of your work.

A line of space between each paragraph is fine.

We hope to read you soon!

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First edition

We hope to have enough stories and poems to fill the zine at the end of April. The  only thing holding us back is you. Take a chance and send us your prose and poems. We promise we won't scratch. 

We hope to have things posted on Youtube as well. 

So drink deep, and toast to the stars. 

And remember, stories are good company. They wait for you, are always happy to see you, do not eat very much and rarely leave messes for you to clean. Rarely. 

Guidelines

Opened to submission!

What to send us: Unusual and beautifully- written speculative fiction.  Speculative fiction incorporates: all kinds of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, supernatural, superhero, utopian, dystopian, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, magic realism, fairy tales, slipstream, bizzro,  and alternate history.  We like a strong sense of setting. We like stories with a touch of heart and humor. Poetry will be considered too. 

Length: from 50 to 5000 words. A little over is fine. 

Payment and Rights: We pay in love and glory only. We ask for First Serial rights and electronic rights. 120 days after publications, most rights revert to the author, but we retain the right to continue selling back issues of the magazine, the right to archive your story, and non-exclusive anthology rights. 

How to submit: Send your manuscript as attachment (.doc or .rft) or in the body of the email in standard manuscript format to aliceingoreland@yahoo.com. Make sure the subject line begins with submission and has the title of your story. Example: "Submission: Cats at Play."

We should respond in about three weeks. 

Once you are expected, we would like a third person bio less than 300 words long. Also, a brief glimpse as to where the story or poem came from. 

Time to send guidelines out

 I am going to send my guidelines to Writing.com, Ralan's and Dutropes. So with some luck, I should be seeing something to read in a week or so. 

I think I will put out some up coming themes too? I was considering Lovecraft, Magic realism, Fairy tales. Perhaps some settings: New Orleans, Seattle, The Smokey Mountains? Maybe objects: jars, trees, cats, bugs, chocolate, coffee? 

If you have any suggestions, please let me know. 

I have what I need to do a podcast on Youtube.