Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine wants fairy tales of 100-500 words for its new flash fiction feature. Payment is $5 per story.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Timeless Tales, an online print and audio magazine of fairytale retellings, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an issue dedicated to short fiction and poetry inspired by the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They will accept submissions March 12–22 and pay $20 for stories of up to 2,000 words (1,500 preferred).
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF retelling of the Wizard of Oz: Wicked has never been so good! Parker and Ella-Marie find themselves cut off from the group of Avatars heading to hide in Perchta’s Garden. Instead they find themselves flung into a fantastical land, facing a powerful witch who claims to be Dorothy of Oz. The women offer their help to free Oz of the demon scourge that threatens the magical lands and people there. Alliances can be tricky when your new powerful ally swings between the extremes of good and evil with only a moment’s notice. Amazon … Read more
Kate Wolford of Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine is compiling an anthology of stories based on Baba Yaga. Baba Who? Baba Yaga, a witch from Slavic folklore, lives in a house with chicken feet, flies around in a mortar while holding a pestle, and may or may not be a cannibal. Wolford is looking for stories of 7,500 to 20,000 words and will pay $50 per story. The submission period is January 1 to March 1, which means you can start writing now, but don’t email her the story until the new year. Find more submission details, plus lots … Read more
QSFer Tami Veldura has a new MM fairy tale book out: Kaleb is under pressure from his closest adviser. Either choose a husband and take the throne of his people, the shifters of the world, or one will be chosen for him. But Kaleb doesn’t want just any husband. He wants to find his mate, the one man that the gods put in this world specifically for him. Richard thinks Kaleb is a fool to trust in myths, but Kaleb insists he’s looking for a forever love and he’s determined to find it. Parker is a lowborn wolf shifter and … Read more
QSFer Erik Schubach has a new FF urban fairy tale out: Even the most beastly… may hold beauty inside. While Daria McQueen mourns. The legends of fairytales fight to contain the incursions of the new demon hybrid contagion that Styche the Trickster has unleashed upon the world. An enraged and seemingly unstoppable demon appears, and it seems just as powerful as Styche. It directs its boundless rage at anything that moves, friend or foe. They learn that the beast can only be controlled by a young woman who has a uncanny ability to soothe the savage beast. Amazon Excerpt I … Read more
QSFer Angel Martinez has a new urban fantasy book out: Willem’s lost his job and his boyfriend, and now possibly his mind when his cat calls him a nitwit. Willem’s father never approved of his artistic talents, his choices in life, or the fact that he’s gay. When the only thing Horst leaves to Willem is the family cat, he thinks it’s his father’s last insult from the grave. That is, until the cat starts talking to him. Though Willem’s lost his boyfriend, his home, and his job, Kasha, who claims to be a magic cat, reassures him that all … Read more
QSFer Pablo Michaels has a new MM fairy tale romance book out: In this sequel to the adult fairy tale book, Jack and the Magical Beanstalk, Jack and Sam have been living happily together on Jack’s prosperous farm with Jack’s widowed mother, Lorene, and the two farmhands, Zeke and Adam. When Sam started having nightmare concerning his father’s health, Sam became distraught and felt helpless not being able to go back to the land he was born, even though Jack attempted to find a way to climb back up high in the sky to Sam’s native land. When Sam traded … Read more
QSFer Pablo Michaels has a new MM erotic fantasy book out: Jack’s Magical Beanstalk & Sam’s Quandary is the story of Jack and the Magical Beanstalk seen through Jack’s partner and lover’s eyes. The story began when Jack’s future love interest, Sam watched him flee from the evil giant Master with his bag of gold coins. When they met they were infatuated with each other. Through Jack’s escapades with Master, Sam eventually followed Jack down the magical beanstalk to live with Jack but the beanstalk had to be cut down. Subsequently, Sam was prevented from seeing his father and brothers. … Read more
QSFer Jaylee James edited a new sci fi fairy tale anthology: A collection of retold fairy tales with a science fiction twist. Rapunzel is a soldier, the last remaining member of the human race, locked in a zoological tower on an alien planet. Doctor Belle must remain in quarantine with a powerful politician who has contracted a beastly disease. Jack sells his arm for a chance up the Stalk, the space elevator he hopes will take him to his fortune. These twenty stories will take you across the galaxy, exploring new technology alongside aliens and cyborgs, princes and evil stepmothers, … Read more