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Horror Tree's weekly newsletter of submissions, content, & more!
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Hello there!
Love is in the air and we want to capture your twisted tales of romance! We've been running "Trembling With Fear" specials for a while now and this year we're making a push to try and get some tales of romance for a Valentine's Day Edition! A celebration of undying love and romance, a time to do something special for the one you love. But it’s not all hearts and flowers, is it? For the upcoming Valentine’s Special, we’re looking for stories that crawl upon the underbelly of romance…obsession, crimes of passion, and love that continues perhaps long after it should. Relationships that have run their course. Evil deeds done in the name of love. Love letters to the damned. -
These will fall under standard TWF guidelines so we're looking for drabble and ideally stories at 1000-1500 words! (You've got some wiggle room to be outside of that word count.)
Stories can be sent directly to Catherine at catherin...@gmail.com
A reiteration from last week - As you're likely aware, February is Women in Horror Month. Each year, we try to participate in the event and feature at least a post a day (primarily guest posts) from women involved in writing, editing, or the publishing industry. We're open to pitches (or can make suggestions) for articles that are in the 300+ word range. If this is you and you'd like to be featured on the site - reach out to con...@horrortree.com today!
A huge thanks to the new Patreons who help keep this site running! We're still down from the one who left last week but we've had a couple of new ones jump in to help soften the blow. THANK YOU!
Looking To Help Horror Tree?
Here are the main things we're looking for:
- Contest sponsorships! We're looking for sponsors for contests: Books on writing, your own fiction, Amazon gift cards, Kindles, writing course payments, etc.
- Article writers*! We're looking for interviewers, reviewers, and original content on the writing/publishing/marketing/etc process
- Original art! For shirts, the website, and more we can always use original art that would fit the site.
- Advertising, need to market your new book? Reach out!
- The obvious one here is also to become one of our Patreons!
If you're interested in contributing and think you have something that would help out PLEASE don't shy away from contacting us!
*I have a special interest in someone who would want to do Top 10 lists or crowdsourced Q&A articles which I could help provide a crowd for. Also, someone willing to report on the publishing industry which I can help find sourced articles for.*
Please reach out if you have any thoughts, suggestions, or requests for the site or mailing list!
Thank you for your time!
-Stuart Conover
Note: We're always looking for new Patreons to help keep the site running! We're inching towards being able to both compensating our staff and become a direct paying market and not just a royalty market. Even a dollar makes a difference!
As a reminder, we've officially opened the Horror Tree Store so be sure to check it out! Let us know if there are any types of items that you'd like to see added.
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Excerpts:
Deadline: January 31st, 2020 Payment: For 500-3000 words – $10 USD Theme: Horror/dark tales related to 1920s. Can be based anywhere – Wild West, 20’s socialites, UK ala Peaky Blinders, etc Note: Reprints Allowed Note: Sorry for the short notice, didn’t realize this had opened to the public Submission Deadline : Midnight 31st January 2020 Anthology : […]
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Who hasn’t gotten the dreaded email that starts with the word, “Unfortunately, we received…?” Ugh. The humiliation. The stab to the heart. I don’t care that they got 500 submissions for twelve spots. They should have chosen mine, darn it. Mine! Don’t let rejections create a crisis of confidence. Here are things you can do […]
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Deadline: March 31st, 2020 Payment: $.08 per word for the first 7,499 words, with payment capped at $599.92 for stories longer than 7,499 words. For re-printed stories that are not currently available elsewhere on the internet for free, we pay $.02 per word for the first 10,000 words, with payment capped at $200 for stories […]
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Deadline: April 15th, 2020 Payment: $20 per story Theme: Electric Spec prefers science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, but we’re willing to push the limits of traditional forms of these genres. Please don’t query us about your story submission. We don’t have the manpower to answer such queries. An editor will email you back as […]
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Deadline: March 31st, 2020 Payment: $20 Theme: Stories set in the “perfect” town of Fox Hollow, details below! CALL FOR ENTRIES for the online short story anthology: Nothing Ever Happens in Fox Hollow. We are looking for previously unreleased short stories that could fit in the world of Fox Hollow. The selected short stories will […]
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Deadline: March 31st, 2020 Payment: Royalties Theme: Horror stories set in Louisiana Note: Reprints Welcome Horror USA: Louisiana – An anthology dedicated to the unique horrors of Louisiana. We want readers to experience the darkest, scariest, weirdest, most terrifying elements Louisiana has to offer! We’re seeking short horror stories between 500 – 7500 words. Stories must […]
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Deadline: February 1st, 2020 Payment: Potentially royalty split Theme: All “great” sci-fi themed ones are welcome but the general ideas they’re looking for are Antarctica, climate change or AI Note: This is way off base from what we’d usually list but I came across it and it sounded interesting, so there you go! Science Fiction […]
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Deadline: April 21st, 2020 Payment: $20 Theme: Stories based on the seven deadly sins Note: Reprints accepted Stories involving one of the Seven Deadly Sins Works: short stories Genre and theme: Horror, extreme horror (no glorified rape, child abuse or animal torture) Deadline: April 21st Format: Attach the .RTF, .DOC, or .DOCX Word Count: 5k-10k […]
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Deadline: April 5th, 2020 Payment: $300 advance on royalties, with 40% royalties on net revenue from print sales and 30% royalties on net revenue from digital sales thereafter. Themes: horror, science fiction, weird western, or dark fantasy. Excession Press is now open for submissions! Our reading period runs Jan. 5th – Apr. 5th 2020. What We […]
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As part of a writing discussion group, I recently did a brief summary of what a psychopath and a sociopath actually are. (Why me? Long story, but it involves some studied I did in one of my university degrees…) Anyway, these two character types often appear in horrors and thrillers (even if the details are […]
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Deadline: March 31st, 2020 Payment: $5 Theme: Serious horror and comedic/bizarre horror. The online form at the bottom of this page is the sole method of submission and contracting for the upcoming Corpus Press publication Two-Page Terrors. Please read all information thoroughly. You will be signing a contract with Corpus Press by placing a submission. *** […]
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