Distant Worlds anthology calls for submissions of novella-length Sci-Fi
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Library of Science Fiction & Fantasy Press is inviting submissions of novella-length Science Fiction for their brand new anthology entitled Distant Worlds.
The anthology’s editor, Lance Schonberg, says: “The novella is often neglected in modern genre fiction. Too short to print as a novel and too long for most short story markets, a novella has room for a lot of richness and growth, for fully realized characters, settings, and societies, and for concepts and ideas that just won’t fit into a short story but may not be big enough or complex enough for a novel. The Novella has the potential to deliver incredible stories.”
While definitions vary depending on where you look, Lance states that for the purpose of this anthology a novella will have a length of somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000 words. The anthology will have room for only four or five novellas, so make sure you submit your finest writing for the best possible chance of inclusion.
How to submit your novella
Your submission must be in standard manuscript format and attached to your email as an rtf file.
If your novella is selected for inclusion in the anthology, you will be paid $100, two contributor’s copies of the book, and the everlasting knowledge of being involved in something special.
Submissions and Queries should be sent to distanteditor@gmail.com with *Submission - Distant Worlds* or *Query - Distant Worlds* in the subject line, as applicable.
Lance warns: “The speculative elements you choose, whatever they are, must be integral to the story. If you can write the same story without them, then it’s not a genre story.”
The deadline is January 15th 2010, which doesn’t give you a lot of time, but with a word-count requirement of between 20,000 and 30,000 words this could be an opportunity to extend a short story or shorten a novel for a polished piece of writing.
On the other hand, if you find this deadline is really too tight, and your work is less sci-fi and more fantastical, consider submitting your novel to the Distant Realms anthology, which is the scheduled companion volume to Distant Worlds, but this time collecting fantasy stories, and with the call for submissions beginning on January 16th 2010.
For further details, visit http://dwdr.wordpress.com/
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