March Fiction Sale
There's certainly truth to the old adage 'perseverance pays off'. While sharking the virtual waters of Ralan.com last week, I happened upon the call for microflash submissions being made by Brimstone Press. They're seeking eerie horror stories of 120 words for a charity anthology to benefit the Australian Horror Writers Association.
The new e-anthology, Black Box, is the sequel to their acclaimed, Shadow Box, e-anthology. It will feature a slew of Australian and international horror writers, and it will be released January 2008.
I purchased a copy of, Shadow Box, (cost me a whole 5 bucks), and it was really cool ~ eerie as they intended and artfully put together as an interactive pdf.
Naturally, I wondered if I could make the cut ~ especially since I’ve been spitting out micro-horror pieces at rate of about a half dozen or more a week for a month now.
I submitted 3 stories first, which didn’t fit the type of horror they were seeking; but the editor invited me to submit more, so I did. I submitted 5 more stories (they allow a 5 story maximum per submission). These had more of a speculative/surreal bent. Of that batch, one tale, The Watcher in the Park, caught their eye.
Wahoo!
It’ll be included in the anthology along side other yanks like Jason Sizemore, Paul Abbamandi, Eric Christ, Amanda M Hayes, and Mark Zirbel.
A fine example of finding a market, doing one's research, and being persistent.
