GD Deckard

Publishing Possibilities, January 2023

Here are 9 publishers and agents currently seeking submissions.
If you know of more, please add them in the Comments?

Amazing Stories Magazine
Amazing Stories is excited to announce the launch of a brand new, weekly series of science fiction stories.
https://submission.amazingstoriesmag.com/

Dark Matter Magazine
Dark Matter Magazine brings the best in dark science fiction and horror for seven issues per year in print and digital.
https://darkmattermagazine.shop/pages/submissions

Learning for Justice Magazine & Publications
Learning for Justice provides timely articles and publications to address current social justice issues and to promote racial equity and inclusive education.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine

Old Moon Quarterly
Old Moon Quarterly is a small, independent online magazine devoted to publishing weird sword-and-sorcery fiction set in a historical paranormal setting or a secondary-world, with a focus on well-rounded characters driving strange action.
https://www.oldmoonpublishing.com/

Sci-Fi Lampoon Magazine
Send us your best fantasy, sci-fi, and horror themed humor. We’re looking for flash (under 1000 words) and short fiction (7500 words, MAX), as well as high-res art, lampoon classifieds and ads.
http://scifilampoon.com/submissions/

David Godwin
David Godwin Associates is a leading literary agency founded in 1995 by David and Heather Godwin. We represent an exciting and varied list of international writers, including novelists, poets, biographers, historians and journalists.
As a small agency, we pride ourselves on the close and effective relationships that we build with our clients.
DGA offers a comprehensive service, handling all rights worldwide including translation, film and TV.
http://www.davidgodwinassociates.com/submissions

Caroline Trussell
Caroline is passionate about finding writers with unique voices and points of view and is looking for steamy romances, out of this world fantasies, and YA and MG that touch on vital topics that can’t be ignored.
https://www.metamorphosisliteraryagency.com/submissions

NALINI AKOLEKAR
Nalini loves nothing more than discovering and nurturing talented authors. She likes to build strong, long-term relationships with her clients and keep open lines of communication.
Nalini primarily represents commercial fiction. She is always interested in seeing new women’s fiction, romance, historical fiction, thrillers and horror. Nalini maintains a diverse client list and loves to find exciting new voices that utilize elements of different genres to tell their story.
https://www.spencerhillassociates.com/submissions

And, of course, our own:
The Rabbit Hole Vol 6
Following this year’s fifth edition, we continue to explore how ‘weird’ fits into numerous genres or themes with a new theme, “Destination: Journey.”
“Destination: Journey” allows for a wide range of stories. In a simple sense, the journey itself being the destination can be taken literally or as a metaphor for life. On the other hand, as a non-sequitur it can mean almost anything – think Kafka, Bierce, Serling, or Lovecraft — and we’re really looking forward to your interpretation, because falling into the Rabbit Hole is always a strange and different experience.
SUBMISSIONS

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GD Deckard

Severely beaten as a child by a WWII hero and combat-induced-PTSD stepfather, the author, as a teen, faced the old man down with a shotgun and earned his blessing to join the military at the time Americans were learning about a country called Vietnam. The “lazy, no good son-of-a-bitch” opted out of combat and hard labor by becoming an Air Force medic, stamping out suffering and misery on Freedom’s Frontier at Clark Airbase in S.E. Asia and earning some kind of medal pinned on him personally by then Secretary of the Air Force, Harold Brown, for “Saving lives, etc.” There followed a summer in Europe ending in the first of happy marriages. Then graduation with University Honors, kids worth dying for and a career in business. Life is good. Author, The Phoenix Diary, Penguin, 2015. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-phoenix-diary-g-d-deckard/1122175645 Founding Member, Writers Co-op. https://WritersCo-op.com Co-Editor, The Rabbit Hole anthologies. https://www.amazon.com/Rabbit-Hole-Weird-Stories/dp/1691225355/ref=sr_1_1 Founder, SciFi Lampoon Magazine. http://scifilampoon.com/ Contributing Editor, A Celebration of Storytelling https://www.amazon.com/Celebration-Storytelling-GD-Deckard/dp/1951716167 Current WIP: Code Blue and Little Deaths, stories from Clark during the Vietnam War. Recipient of the Psi Young award for Creative Biography.

14 responses to “Publishing Possibilities, January 2023”

Sandy Randall

January 8, 2023

Great post GD. Always nice to know who’s looking for writers! Also Writers Co-op is still accepting submissions for RH 6 as well … which is where I’ll be this afternoon … reading the latest submissions!

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1. GD Deckard
  
  January 8, 2023
  
  Oops! That has been added. Thank you, Sandy!
  
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victoracquista

January 8, 2023

Thanks for sharing this info, GD. You were kind enough to clue me in on Duotrope several years ago. I’ll share info here but the credit goes to you: https://duotrope.com/about/. For a monthly $5.00 pittance, Duotrope gives you a searchable database to find agents, magazines, publishers, contests and other useful information. And, you can track your submissions using their submission tracker. That tracker gives you a lot of additional information such as response times, member success rates, and an assortment of additional information.

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1. GD Deckard
  
  January 8, 2023
  
  Thanks, Victor. Duotrope really is a useful source for writers and for publishers. The Rabbit Hole anthologies and Sci-Fi Lampoon magazine have used Duotrope since day one to solicit manuscripts. We get them from, literally, around the world.
  
  An endearing trait of Duotrope is that a real person responds if anyone has a question. Odd, and refreshing, these days.
  
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mimispeike

January 9, 2023

All right, I’ll give it another shot. I’ll submit to David Godwin. He’s in London. That may or may not help, but I’ll go on that theory. I believe he said they reply in six weeks. That’s a far cry from the six months some of them say.

I’ll call Sly Upmarket Fiction. Last time I said Magical Realism. I never heard back.

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1. GD Deckard
  
  January 9, 2023
  
  This might interest you, Mimi.
  
  Best Picture Book Publishing Companies 2023
  https://blog.reedsy.com/publishers/picture-book/
  
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2. victoracquista
  
  January 15, 2023
  
  Hi Mimi,
  I came across this resource: a searchable data base for Literary Agents. I entered “picture books” and got a listing of 199 agents. Hope this is helpful: https://literaryagencies.com/members/?cn-s=&cn-cat=73
  Have fun!
  
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Perry Palin

January 9, 2023

Shipwreckt Books & Lost Lake Folk Opera Magazine.

https://shipwrecktbooks.press/

Small independent publisher located in southern Minnesota. They published the only short story I submitted to them several years ago in Lost Lake Folk Opera, which is a pretty cool print literary magazine. I had a relatively quick turnaround time and felt I was treated well. The publisher was attentive and communicative. Maybe I have to send them another story.

The last time I really looked at their site they were not accepting book submissions. They were dealing with a flood of book proposals. I don’t know if that has changed, but it looks like they are taking submissions for the magazine.

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mimispeike

January 11, 2023

Most of these–science fiction, social justice, sword and sorcery, paranormal–do not fit Sly. Fantasy humor? I’m fairly certain my talking cat is not what they have in mind.

Sly is a category unto himself. But what I’ve read about ‘upmarket fiction’ gives me to think I might squeeze him in there. Does anyone agree with me on that?

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1. GD Deckard
  
  January 11, 2023
  
  I’m thinking more along the lines of Taschen, an art book publisher.
  https://www.taschen.com/
  
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  1. mimispeike
    
    January 11, 2023
    
    Never heard of it. I’m checking it out. But what’s with those prices?
    
    Art books, okay. But Sly is not an art book. He’s text only, at present.
    
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    1. GD Deckard
      
      January 11, 2023
      
      Check their Utube presentation
      https://www.youtube.com/TASCHEN
      
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    2. GD Deckard
      
      January 11, 2023
      
      I love Sly’s stories. They’re as interesting as they are fun. But with the drawings, the book is art.
      
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      1. mimispeike
        
        January 11, 2023
        
        If Sly gains a positive reaction, it will eventually be illustrated, perhaps one full page image per chapter, as in the Golden Age children’s books. I’m kicking off with text.
        
        I am going to run it by Kirkus. My husband will throw a fit. But he gives $100 a year to Doctors Without Borders, has done so for years. Kirkus is my discretionary spending.
        
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