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agilebritCall for subs for a "Books Gone Bad" anthology.
From the info:
Dead Letter Press is now soliciting story submissions for an anthology of weird fiction featuring both classic and new tales about "books gone bad." For now, the title is staying under wraps, but this project most likely will be a hardcover limited to 150 to 200 copies.
Stories should be about books that do not belong in a sane person's library; books that wreck havoc in the lives of their owners; books that are no damn good! The "bad" book in your story should be central to the plot. The book should exert an emotional, or a physical, or a supernatural effect on the characters, or on reality, or time, or space. The book should be the villain of your story. Perhaps a sympathetic villain, or an unwitting accomplice to evil---but nevertheless, the book should be a "character" in your story, play a major role, and be "on stage" for a good part of the tale. You can think of this as "the secret lives and evil times of diabolical books." In fact, that's the tag line.
The deadline is the end of September, and the word length they're looking for is 4,000 to 12,000 words.
It doesn't look like they're planning on a big print run, but it pays a penny a word plus two copies, which is better than a sharp stick in the eye...
Random edit: Why is it that no one knows how to spell that word that generally comes before "havoc" correctly? It's "wreak," people--not "wreck."
Now watch someone come along and correct me...
From the info:
Dead Letter Press is now soliciting story submissions for an anthology of weird fiction featuring both classic and new tales about "books gone bad." For now, the title is staying under wraps, but this project most likely will be a hardcover limited to 150 to 200 copies.
Stories should be about books that do not belong in a sane person's library; books that wreck havoc in the lives of their owners; books that are no damn good! The "bad" book in your story should be central to the plot. The book should exert an emotional, or a physical, or a supernatural effect on the characters, or on reality, or time, or space. The book should be the villain of your story. Perhaps a sympathetic villain, or an unwitting accomplice to evil---but nevertheless, the book should be a "character" in your story, play a major role, and be "on stage" for a good part of the tale. You can think of this as "the secret lives and evil times of diabolical books." In fact, that's the tag line.
The deadline is the end of September, and the word length they're looking for is 4,000 to 12,000 words.
It doesn't look like they're planning on a big print run, but it pays a penny a word plus two copies, which is better than a sharp stick in the eye...
Random edit: Why is it that no one knows how to spell that word that generally comes before "havoc" correctly? It's "wreak," people--not "wreck."
Now watch someone come along and correct me...
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Date: 2007-05-02 09:38 pm (UTC)I've seen 'reek' also.
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Date: 2007-05-03 06:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-02 10:43 pm (UTC)Tempting etymology, but no. What you seek is sought; what you wreak is wrought.
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Date: 2007-05-02 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-03 12:41 am (UTC)Why is it that no one knows how to spell that word that generally comes before "havoc" correctly? It's "wreak," people--not "wreck."
That's nothing--in 10th grade, I was still homeschooling and using this curriculum called Covenant Home, and in a letter to the teacher and student included with the rest of the material, the writer talked about people "reeking havoc". Actually, that wasn't the worst error in there. This was written by the same person who put together the whole curriculum, apparently. Yeah, it wasn't exactly high quality.