Marty Young is a Bram Stoker nominated and Australian Shadows award winning editor, fiction and non-fiction writer, and sometimes ghost hunter. He’s mostly nuts, though.
Marty’s blog is syndicated at Screaming Ink, a consortium of the imaginarium…
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Latest Post:
The Current State of Pro-rate Horror Magazines
I recently received the latest market update from Ralan.com and found approximately 9 currently open markets for horror fiction paying pro-rates (5c/word or more). One of these state they get 12,000 submissions a year. Another says their response time is 9 months!
There was only 1 anthology currently open to subs paying 5c/word.
To become an active member of the Horror Writers Association, you need 3 or more short story sales at pro-rates. There are other means of attaining active membership but I’m only considering short stories at the moment.
I’ve had one pro sale so far. Need another two to get active membership.
It’s going to be a long, hard slog…
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THE LATEST FROM THIRTEEN O’CLOCK:
- 26 November 2012: A Haunting Of Ghosts by Maynard Sims – review by Mario Guslandi - THIRTEEN O'CLOCK
A Haunting of Ghosts by Maynard Sims Hardcover: 144 pages Publisher : Enigmatic Press, UK 2012 Maynard Sims ( i.e. Len Maynard & Mick Sims) is an excellent writing duo, author of several collections of ghost and horror stories, a … Continue reading → - 23 November 2012: News: EVIL DEAD Redband Teaser Trailer - THIRTEEN O'CLOCK
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Midnight Echo, the official magazine of the Australian Horror Writers’ Association has revealed the cover and full Table of Contents for issue 8. Literature A Visit With Friends by Joe R Lansdale The Girl from the Borderlands by Felicity Dowker Blissful Ignorance by … Continue reading →
THE LATEST FROM HELLNOTES:
- 10 December 2012: December 9th Horror Quick Hits - Hellnotes
Hey you. Writer guy. Yeah, you; over there in the back. Actionhorror.com wants to publish your short stories and flash fiction (anything in between 100-5000 words). We aren’t paying money (sorry), so this will be a for the love sorta thing. But if you have a story that sits on the cross roads of action [...] - 8 December 2012: V/H/S – Blu-ray Review - Hellnotes
V/H/S Directors: 10 different directors! Cast: a whole slew of people. Review by Brian M. Sammons I guess it was only a matter of time before the found footage horror craze did the horror anthology thing, and the thought of that did sort of have me doing the happy dance. While the found footage (aka [...] - 8 December 2012: Child is Father to the Monster: Lincoln Child - Hellnotes
Courtesy of Publishers Weekly… It was an intriguing series of requests for columnist Douglas Preston, who wrote about history for Natural History, the magazine of the American Museum of Natural History. An editor from St. Martin’s Press had been reading his pieces and asked Preston to write a history of that institution. That invitation led [...]
