I am now officially opening the portals and inviting submissions for the next volume of NH Pulp Fiction. This one is dedicated to science fiction and its mutant cousin, speculative fiction, which is to say the stories don’t all have to deal with spaceships, alien viruses and freeze rays. You can mix a little Twilight Zone in with your Outer Limits.
The deadline for submissions is January 31. The maximum word length is 8,000 (though I’m willing to bend rules for great writing). As always, the Granite State needs to be a tangible presence in the stories, which could be quite interesting if the story is set in, say, the 23rd century.
I don’t have a lot of other rules or style requirements, but if you have some weird old word processing software just use simple text; and everyone should adhere to classic old-school formats for submissions, i.e. put your doggone name AND address AND e-mail on your manuscripts. I can’t tell you how much trouble it is having to navigate back and forth between manuscripts and e-mails searching for basic contact info. Digital information is cheap, so take advantage of it and put your all contact information everywhere, assuming you ever want to be contacted.
Oh, and send your submissions to me at nhpulpfiction@gmail.com.
Onward and upward.
-Rick
Thanks for making the deadline 1-31. I’m now working the night shift (5 pm to 5 am) at a gun barrel factory (Should have had this job for inspiration for LFDDD!) so have less time to write.
I hope the Manchester reading event was a success. I’m sorry I couldn’t be there.
Hey, cool site. Found it via Sanda Seaman’s blog. Glad I did. Looking forward to following, and hopefully come up with something to submit. A lot of my shorts take place in MA & NH (grew up in Billerica, but live in Pepperell now) as did some of my novel. Best of luck!
Nice to hear from you, Sean. I look forward to your submission. Spread the word about the series. We’ll be tackling romance next (I’m picturing historical swashbuckling (and unbuckling) with a fair amount of bodice busting tossed in for good measure. Then we’re probably going back to horror in Live Free or Undead 2.
Just what I’ve been waiting for!