rainbow-femme:

My favorite thing about Achilles is that he’s the greatest living Greek at the time with more godlike power than anyone else who could kill 20 men at a time easily, and he’s also a tiny androgynous looking naïve mommas boy who only likes one person and throws fits when he’s upset at 28

a (not-so) brief overview of markets that will pay you actual money in exchange for your short fiction

melaniehoping:

Writing is a rough gig. Get paid where you can. Here’s a bunch of places that will pay professional rates for genre (fantasy/science fiction/horror) short stories. All these markets take (and actually publish) unsolicited submissions – you don’t need an agent, and you don’t need to have previously published works. 

Remember to format your shit, write a simple cover letter, don’t send the same story to more than one place at a time, make sure submissions windows are actually open, and never respond to rejection letters ever. Have fun!

(Information gathered from both Submissions Grinder – an essential resource for people actively submitting their work – and my own excessive and somewhat ridiculous reading habits.)

Current as of May 2018. Markets are listed alphabetically. Detailed info below the cut.

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Okay this is really weird but – I haven’t been receiving email updates (I’m subscribed through AO3) when you post new FYD chapters :( I think it might be an AO3 glitch, but I just was wondering today “Huh is FYD abandoned? Haven’t seen an update in so many months…” and I checked and there was a whole bunch of new chapters I hadn’t been notified about. (I get email updates for a few other fics regularly, though no way to be sure this isn’t happening for other fics too that I’ve forgotten about)

Huh…that’s so weird! I tried poking around ao3 a little to see if it was some kind of setting that got turned on, but I didn’t find anything. Is anyone else having this issue??