Would That It Were
Address:509 Elm St., Suite 603
Dallas, TX 75202
USA
Contact: Don Muchow, Editor.
Email Address:
Website: http://www.wouldthatitwere.com
Phone: (425) 963- 8365
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Description of Publication:
80% freelance. An online publication that specializes in period Science Fiction and related topics set roughly between 1830 and 1930 A.D. Welcomes new writers. Circ. not yet available. Quarterly. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms a day or so after acceptance. Buys first electronic rights. Rarely accepts reprints. Responds within one week. Sample at website. Subscription free. Guidelines online at http://www.wouldthatitwere.com/guidelines.html
Current Needs: Literacy. We will not reply to queries/submissions with pervasive grammatical or spelling errors.
welcomes new writers
Pay: Pays $0.05/word to $50 for flash fiction of less than 500 words; $0.03-$0.05/word to $150 for short shorts of 501-3000 words and to $250 for short stories of 3001-5000 words; $0.03/word or by special arrangement for longer submissions.
Hints: Common mistakes include not editing own work (spelling/grammar/usage), and using extraneous fonts or formatting. We are planning a series of non-fiction articles on the persistent societal impact of period inventions and discoveries, with an eye to the subtle ways in which the world would have been different IF.... We are an eZine of Victorian SF. I think a listing once said that we would take supernatural fiction and westerns as long as it had SF in it, but nearly every repressed writer of vampire stories, ghost stories, and cowboy stories unloaded on us with no regard to our guidelines. NO MORE Ghost of the Cherokee Brave... OK? We're up to our eyeballs in it already.
Photos/Art: Send copy of image for review, state expected price range. Pays $200-500 for cover art; illustrations are considered part of manuscript submission.
