Hey all you lovelies out there, Speculation Publications put out a new call for submissions! Here's the specs!! Or go to Speculationpub.com/submission
Category: BEACH SHORTS Word Count – 1500 to 6000 words Submissions open January 10 2023- March 14 2023 Payment: $10 and a contributors copy Paperback for US residents Ebook for Non-US residents Send submissions to Susan Tulio at Editors@speculationpub.com Think seaside retreats, warm sand and cool breezes. Stories that are captivating, easy to read and let your reader take an escape from reality. Bring us short stories filled with lovable characters who find the perfect love or a wild and crazy fling, jilted brides, old summer cottages filled with secrets, ghosts, lost diaries and treasure filled attics. Send us stories filled with romance, mystery or adventure. Comedies with depth and emotion that go far beyond humor and romance. We’re looking for: happy endings, wonderful locations and a fun ride. We want stories with the perfect summer vibe. ***Please no graphic assault or erotica. Please include a cover letter with a brief bio and any links. Title your file and subject Beach Shorts-Authorname-title. Please attach your manuscript in standard Shunn manuscript formatting. We do not want gratuitous or sexual violence particularly toward children or animals, nor are we interested in being a platform for bigotry. There is a clear line here and if you don’t know where it is, we suggest you figure it out before submitting. ****We are also looking for cover art that goes with this theme. $20 for one original illustration that will be used for the cover Send a low res (but visible) or watermarked image to editors@speculationpub.com OK, I've been really really busy, and I've let things slide. Sorry 'bout that. From last fall till right now Speculation Publications released two anthologies, debuting in the top ten of their respective genres. 15 different writers. Eight of them speculating about the real life Dancing Plague of 1518. And eight more terrifying us with feminine horror. I am incredibly proud of both of these publications, as a writer and an editor and publisher. If you're into alternative history and mysteries or horror with amazing female protagonists, these books are for you. ********* AUTUMN/WINTER 2022 ********** SPECULATION PUBLICATION'S NEXT CALL FOR SUBMISSION: INCUBATE: An inclusive feminist horror anthology of rage is our second submission call...
With the R v W leak, and increasingly invasive restrictions on the bodily autonomy of people with uteruses, women, and many gender minorities. People feel betrayed by a system that promised to protect their rights and the people in power who swore they were overreacting. What does that look like? How does anger manifest when it’s been bottled up and gaslit for decades?What kind of power does that anger hold? Incubate means any number of things. It is how a body can make a fetus into a baby. But we also can incubate anger, power, ideas, strength. What do those things look like when they are born into the world? We don’t want the stories of oppression. We don’t want rape and abuse, at least not on the page. We want the horror that comes when a woman oppressed released all the rage that has incubated within her in a system that dehumanizes her. We want the manifestations of Lilith, Medusa, Kali, Freya. Goddesses of feminine strength and feminine rage and the chaos they unleash upon the world. We want blood. We want body horror and monsters and witches and revolution. We want authentic voices and stories that rip away from the male gaze. Follow us here at Speculation Publications ... Tiktok Autumn is here and winter is around the corner. We're still crazy busy here at Speculation Publications!! Our fourth anthology, The Dancing Plague: A Collection of Utter Speculation, will be available on October 11, 2022 through Amazon for print or ebook. LCW Allingham, Susan Tulio and I are super excited to bring you this newest edition in the speculation series. "In 1518, a woman started dancing on the streets of Strasborg and could not stop. No priests, physics or leaders could help as more and more joined her, jaunting as their feet bled and their bodies broke. Centuries later the mystery endures, explained as mass hysteria, mob mentality but suspected to be something much more sinister. In this fourth collection of Utter Speculation nine authors offer stories of witches and wishes, love and longing, of music and mastery and the deepest secrets of the restless heart." The nine wonderfully talented writers contributing to The Dancing Plague are ... JD Byrne, Elizabeth Guilt, Jocelyne Gregory, Deborah Henley, C. Owen Loftus, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Allison Thurman and David L. Updike and Tara Wenzel If you'd like to read about The Dancing Plagues talented authors, visit LCW Allingham's blog Go to Amazon for our previous three Speculation Anthologies ... The Lost Colony of Roanoke. The Jersey Devil. The Lady in White. To go back a bit...
******October 2021****** "The Lady in White, A Collection of Utter Speculation" The new anthology released on October 5th, became a best seller in New Releases on the day of release!! Thank you for that! Take a look at that lineup! A few familiar voices and and brand spankin' new one! Click the author names below to be directed to the Amazon author and book pages! LCW Allingham Mel D Sullivan River Eno Susan Tulio Cadence Barrett GET YOUR COPY TODAY!! @ AMAZON.COM Hallo My Lovlies, This has been a crazy daisy of a beginning of a month! I took part in another Utter Speculation anthology, The Lady in White. It debuted in the top ten on Amazon New Releases Ghost Fiction and has some awesome reviews so far. So yeah, pretty great start to a month! Our Third Anthology... "The Lady in White, A Collection of Utter Speculation" The new anthology released on October 5th, became a best seller in New Releases on the day of release!! Thank you for that! Take a look at that lineup! A few familiar voices and and brand spankin' new one! Click the author names below to be directed to the Amazon author and book pages! LCW Allingham Mel D Sullivan River Eno Susan Tulio Cadence Barrett GET YOUR COPY TODAY!! @ AMAZON.COM **** March 2020 ****
The Jersey Devil Anthology will be released on Tuesday March 10th!! That's right, that's is this Tuesday, as today is March 8, 2020!! I am so excited for you all to read these five great stories!. We worked really hard to bring this one to you. And it was worth every moment! Good Fall everyone! Last Wednesday, September 23, 2020, Dan Aubrey from the newspaper, "The PrincetonInfo," wrote a piece about the Jersey Devil, and our anthology was included on his list of new and exciting Jersey Devil Stories. We're number one actually, so yaay for us!! If you'd like to take a look follow this link: The PrincetonInfo.com In an effort to create solidarity with the Amazon workers I'm posting the link to my Smashwords.com author account where you can purchase all my books in ebook format. The new Jersey Devil anthology is set at "Name Your Price" for everyone needs a good book, but may not be able to afford one right now! Happy Reading and Keep Your Distance!! Click here for my Amazon Author page!! Our Second Anthology... *****The Jersey Devil: A Collection of Utter Speculation debuted at #6 on Amazon's New Release Fantasy!!! Thank you ALL so so much for that! I was truly blessed to again work with such terrifically talented writers. I am always amazed when a group of people get together and make a collectively beautiful thing. Click the thumbnails above to see the beautiful book cover art and story art for my short tale. Huge thank you to Patricia Carlson Allingham and Adam C. Allingham for the book art and design respectively. ***Click here for my Amazon Author Page*** ******MARCH 2019****** Our First Anthology... ***What an amazing debut!! ***A Collection of Utter Speculation, ended its first day at #2 on the Amazon "New Release"Alternative History Science Fiction chart!!! ****And #6 in "Best Seller" Alternative History Science Fiction!!!! "The Lost Colony of Roanoke: A Collection of Utter Speculation" Awesome writers include: DR Kinter, talented author of a wonderful dystopian future story called "The Bridges," available at Amazon.com LCW Allingham, a brilliant writer of horror and the bizarre, currently at work on her debut novel. Susan Tulio, a creative, lover of romance novels and all things with a happy ending. Hard at work on her first novel. River Eno Author Page. |
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