Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Special Delivery





I love getting packages so, as you might imagine, I was beyond excited to find this little treat in my P.O. Box today.

The absolutely amazing Alison Tyler is celebrating the release of her new guide with a blog tour, and I'll be playing along on May 31st.  I'm thrilled to have a little snippet from my latest WIP included in the chapter on Voyeurism, which is a theme I find sneaking into my work again and again.



Saturday, April 26, 2014

Submit... To This Anthology

The folks over at Elektrik MilkBath Press are now taking submissions for a dark-erotic themed anthology.  Check out their guidelines below:

Call for Submissions:

We are excited to announce that we are open to submissions for an anthology of dark erotic (or is that darkly erotic?) stories. For this project, we are open to multiple genres (and even a little mixing and mashing) including but not limited to dark fantasy, horror, magic realism, literary, and even a little twist of noir. The key words here are dark and erotic—however you want to spin it.

While the stories for this book should have an erotic element, there is a lot of territory to cover there and we don’t want to limit you on subject or style. Whether you are just offering a hint of eroticism to a dark tale or writing something more explicit, the story should be enhanced by the eroticism, not written as an afterthought.  We’ve said it before… What’s most important to us is a good story; one that has believable characters and good dialogue, stories we want to read again. Have fun with this, get creative, and please send us your very best work. 

And just so you know, we have no problem with violence—not even a bit—the tone of the project is dark, after all. Still, any violence must be important to the tale. We aren’t a fan of the gross, however, and we don’t love gore for the sake of gore.  There really needs to be a point. Also, the standard no-nos apply—no underage characters, sex with animals, etc. 

How to Submit:

Please send your 1000-5000 word stories pasted into the body of the e-mail to darkeros (at) elektrikmilkbathpress (dot) com. Denote use of italics _like this_. The majority of the stories we choose tend to fall in the 2000-5000 word range but if you know us you know we’re pretty flexible with word count, as long as we enjoy the read. Preference will be given to original stories but we have been known to take a reprint or two… just query.

We will read up to 3 stories per author; however, send each one as an individual submission. 
Make sure you include all your contact details with your submission:  Name, pseudonym (if applicable), address and contact info. We would hate to fall in love with your story and not be able to tell you so.

Also, please let us know if the story is an original and include the approximate word count, as well as a short bio of about 50 words. We want to know all about you—we’re nosy like that.
Finally, please include the word “submission” in your subject line so that your lovely efforts aren’t eaten by our junk-monster. Much good work has been destroyed this way and we’d hate to see it happen to yours.

What happens next:

We hope to send responses within a 6-8 week period with August 25th  targeted as our final response date. We ask that you not submit these stories elsewhere until you have heard from us.  We acknowledge that response times can grow longer as we receive more stories, but we do respond to every submission and we will try to update our Facebook page, Twitter, and the website as frequently as possible.  If you haven’t heard from us and it has been awhile, please feel free to query.

We are offering a one-time payment of $30 and a contributor copy in return for non-exclusive rights.  Authors who are selected will receive a contract.
Books will be available for purchase through multiple online venues including our website, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.com and authors wishing to purchase additional copies will be able to do so at a discount.

Submissions will be accepted from May 1—June 30.

Any questions?  Something we forgot?  Feel free to query. 

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Has It Really Been That Long?


I have issues with commitment.

I alternate between coffee and tea, I read multiple books at the same time, I am always going a million different ways at once and, to be honest, I don’t like to be pinned down.

And I get distracted.

I start things and then get busy with something else—until I abandon that project for the next. But I always find my way back home and I always finish what I start. Eventually.

This is one of those things.

I’m going to try it again. And I think I’ll do much better this time around.

Maybe.

We’ll see.