Venacular Books Accepting Submissions for Anthology

Vernacular Books is pleased to announce they are currently accepting submissions for their anthology The Way of the Laser: Future Crime Stories.

What they’re looking for:

Crime stories that take place in the future. Preferably these stories will go beyond simple murders or capers to reveal something about how technology and the powers that wield it have changed our world. 

• Is poisoning the nanobots responsible for programming the ads in your neural feed a crime? 
• Is organized crime society’s only hope or responsible for its downfall? 
• Consider what will constitute a crime and what unique problems it poses for your characters.
• Keep in mind what is criminal behavior one day may be legal the next and vice versa. 

They want to see people caught up in the pitfalls of society ruled by corporations, ideologies, and demagogues and what lengths people will go to when there simply is no other choice.

Wow them with your original idea and blow them away with your writing.

Length: 4,000-8,000 words

Payment: $.05/word advance + royalties.

Deadline: January 1, 2020/TBD

Send submissions to vernacularbookssubmissions at gmail dot com.
www.vernacaularbooks.com

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Anotholgy: Shadows Out of Time Looking for Stories

ANTHOLOGY OPENING. Several slots are open in SHADOWS OUT OF TIME. This is an anthology to be published in 2020 by PS Publishing in a format similar MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS REVEALED and its predecessors THAT IS NOT DEAD and TALES FROM THE MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

Lovecraft wrote in "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction" (in MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS and elsewhere) that the conflict with time is the most profound and fruitful of weird themes. So, prove him right. Despite the overly-suggestive title, the Great Race of Yith is optional. This theme can encompass all manner of unnatural survivals or timeslips or other methods of transcending time. In Lovecraft's own fiction this could range from "The Silver Key" to "The Picture in the House" to "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," in addition to "The Shadow Out of Time." They are looking for eerie, haunting stories in a Lovecraftian context, not particularly pastiches of anything.

Payment is 3 cents a word to a maximum of $100. There is no word limit. Deadline is Feb 1, 2020. Query Darrell Schweitzer through Facebook. 

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