Market Updates

October 11, 2004: Jeff Berkwits has been named editor-in-chief of Amazing Stories. He was previously a senior staff writer at Wolfson Public Relations. (per mediabistro.com)

Pitch-Black Books proudly announces a submissions call for RAZOR-EDGED ARCANUM: a collection of Heroic Fantasy short fiction to be released spring 2005. Word lengths are: 3k minimum, 8k maximum, but we will be very selective in buying stories over 7k. Deadline for submissions is 31 January 2005.

Third Annual Firebrand Fiction/SFReader.com Short Story Contest The contest opened to submissions on October 1st, 2004, and will remain open until December 31st, 2004 .

The Creative Media Agency is happy to announce the newest addition to their agency-family. In the past CMA has concentrated on non-fiction and mainstream, mystery, thrillers, and romantic fiction. They have asked Nadia Cornier to join the CMA team to actively acquire new clients in the speculative fiction, Children and YA markets. Nadia comes to the agency with a background in book promotion and publicity. She is the founder and owner of Cornier & Associates Public Relations, a company that specializes in services for authors. In her new position, she will be able to offer publicity/promotional assistance to CMA clients - cementing CMA’s position as a literary agency that provides full client management services. Nadia is actively looking for work in adult science fiction and fantasy that is more character-oriented than world-oriented. She is also looking forgreat YA and children’s fiction with or without speculative fiction elements. To query Nadia Cornier or any other agent at the Creative Media Agency, you should send a query letter as per the instructions on the CMA website, and be sure to give the title, word count, a brief description of your work and any professional writing credits.