They are looking for word counts between 4500 and 40,000 words.
Dimension6 will be three times a year and distributed free and DRM-free through a variety of websites. Check out their Submissions page for more info.
The current reading period closes on 22 February, and the first issue of D6 is due out 4 April.
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Just a quick note for Australian readers. My copy of Dialogue by Gloria Kempton arrived today from Booktopia where they have the book on sale for $9.95 (sans shipping if you include the code READING before midnight this Sunday). I am about halfway through Plot and Structure, another title in the Write Great Fiction series and was happy with that so I thought it was worth it as part of my dedicated push toward self directed learning.
A review will be forthcoming, but not for a couple of weeks or perhaps longer. If you want to check out out the direct link to booktopia is here and Goodreads has a fair selection of reviews here.
care of Peter Ball and Queensland Writers Centre.
So a post apocalyptic/realist horror (groan) tale tentatively called Of Sorrow and Loss may be on its way to a paying outlet near you (on its way and likely coming back, but hey, rejections are par for the course).
So remembering the wise words of a fave short fiction author of mine, Peter M Ball, who incidentally wrote a piece for Lisa Hannett’s blog called Know Your Rights. I am setting out with best intentions, to treat this writing in a business like fashion. To manage my submissions formally with a database tracking submissions and noting down what rights I have sold. I may have to write 15-20 stories before one gets published but it’s the mind-set that counts.
So to help with that process I looked up a nifty piece of software created by Simon Haynes, author of the Hal Spacejock sci-fi comedy series and professional programmer.
It’s called Sonar3 (get it navies use sonar to track subs, authors send out submissions, ah forgeddit). It’s free and fairly intuitive to use. It was written specifically for the Speculative Fiction Short Story market but it has some application beyond that (tracking non-fiction articles etc).
Go here and check it out.
If you’re in the novel writing business it’s also worth checking out yWriter5 another free bit of software that provides much the same sort of facility as Scriviner. With less time required to upskill oneself and costing nothing.
