Pro fantasy mags for Sep 2021

I didn't want to update my list of publishing info on Tumblr, given that my notifications are still haunted by the list I posted six years ago, but DW has no reblogging without context option! So, the ones that seemed relevant to my interests w/ the info I extracted, for those who share said interests:

Apex

Open: now
Format: Shunn Standard Manuscript Format (https://www.shunn.net/format/story/). Use .docx.
Cover letter: they want one (no guidelines)
Submissions: no simultaneous, no multiple
Length: 7,500 words max
Payment: $.08; minimum of $50
Preferences:

• “Mind-bending short fiction,” dark and spectacular
• Emphasizes top pros in field

Query: try to respond within 30 days

Beneath Ceaseless Skies

Open: now, according to SFWA
Format: Standard Manuscript Format, with name, address, and email on the first page, and running header with last name, title, and pg # on every subsequent page. Attachment should NOT be .docx but .doc or .rtf. Paste the manuscript into the email if those don’t work. Send to submissions@beneath-ceaseless-skies.com with subject line Submission: [Title].
Cover letter: type cover letter into the body of email and mention title of story.
Submissions: no multiple; simultaneous is okay, if mentioned in cover letter, and BCS immediately informed if accepted elsewhere
Length: 15,000 words max
Payment: $.08
Preferences:

• Emphasizes new and/or unpublished writers
• Lots, but core: stories w/ a secondary world setting and some fantasy feel, with a literary approach
• Secondary world w/ qualities bearing on the setting + no urban fantasy or modern/futuristic tech
• Focus on characters
• “Literary but readable”
• Close/limited POV preferred
• Originality; don’t want familiar tropes
• Nothing beyond “R” and no sex/sadistic violence be acted upon children
• Fairy tales/fables don’t really work for them
• No famous people unless it’s really different
• Humor is hit and miss

Query: check slush updates on website

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alkarinqque on Tumblr posted a pretty aesthetic post for Númenor, including one picture of ships at sea overlaid with Westernesse "Western Lands".

I added:

Honestly, the Númenórean ships showing up to save the Elves is just the best aesthetic of them all.

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In response to this, steinbecks asked:

can I trouble you to send me this PowerPoint so I can inhale it please ?

I replied:

hahaha

well, if you really want me to :P

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Darcy’s take on Elizabeth’s family in his letter is pretty dickish, but also, it warms my dead cold heart when he’s like … the shit I’m saying does not apply to you or Jane. But it does apply to your father #sorrynotsorry

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perminas responded to this post:

i think darcy has an especially keen insight into mr. bennet that elizabeth might not have - elizabeth’s contrasts for mr. bennet are her mother and sir william lucas, who make anyone clever look good, whereas darcy is able to view bennet specifically as a head of household failing in that duty. darcy’s high standards and his own struggle to do right would make mr. bennet’s failures seem even worse by comparison.

it’s interesting that we don’t get (or i don’t remember) any description of how the bennets interact with the poor in the village. it seems like most other austen heroines see that as part of their duty, and the bennets are principal inhabitants of their town. if mr. bennet was as lazy there as he is elsewhere, i think elizabeth would have some private thoughts about that.

I replied:

Hmm, well, I think it’s worth going back to Elizabeth’s response to Darcy’s conduct towards his dependents:

The commendation bestowed on him by Mrs Reynolds was of no trifling nature. What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant? As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people’s happiness were in his guardianship!—How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow!—How much of good or evil must be done by him!

This can be seen in various ways, but my impression is that it’s a sudden realization; she’s not just considering these things, but considering them for the first time, or at least in a way she never has before. Personally, I see this as part of her character growth, a swerve from a pattern of understanding the world overwhelmingly in terms of herself.

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heckofabecca asked:

Do you have any thoughts about the new Emma adaptation coming out? What's your favorite adaptation of it so far?

I replied:

I honestly don’t have a lot of thoughts about it, sorry! I looked up some reviews and got annoyed (not at the adaptation specifically), so I’m just kind of … we’ll see when it comes out, I guess?

My favourite Emma adaptation is, of course, Clueless. :)

(IDK about the former, but the latter really hits the sweet spot of a) thoughtfully engaging with its source material, and b) creating something that's fully operative and rich in its own right.)