Call for Submissions - Lethe Press
Just a quick heads-up for the writers among you. Steve Berman at Lethe has announced that he is extending the deadline for Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists another six months from the original January 31, 2014 deadline. Here’s the original description:
"Lethe Press is seeking short stories and novellettes for its forthcoming anthology, Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists! We're looking for more cinematic-style "mad science"--over-the-top vs. textbook--so everything from alchemy to steampunk to cloning in tanks is fine. The protagonist must be lesbian and her sexuality cannot be a stigma. While the mad scientist need not be the protagonist, she must be a three-dimensional character and her interest in (mad) science should have a natural rationale as in real life (though her desired ends to whatever experiment takes place as one of the story arcs need not be natural at all!). Our preference is stories that take place in 19th and 20th centuries, but we are open to other time periods and contemporary tales.
"This book would be shelved in SF/Fantasy. So this is not an erotica anthology. Elements of romance are fine and welcome as long as they are natural to the story.
"Stories should be 2,500 to 12,500 words. Payment is 5 cents a word upon publication, which will be in the fall of 2014. Deadline for all submissions is January 31st, 2014. Submissions must be sent as rtf files to lethepress@aol.com with the subject line DAUGHTERS OF FRANKENSTEIN. Feel free to query us."
It looks like enormous fun, and I’d like to read it. (And, yes, I’ve got a story mostly done, because this is absolutely right up my alley. Though at the moment I’m poking at it looking for ways to make the science bigger and madder…) Steve’s note on Facebook said that he’d gotten too many stories about reanimating a lover rather than the full spectrum of mad science, so - a word to the wise.
"Lethe Press is seeking short stories and novellettes for its forthcoming anthology, Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists! We're looking for more cinematic-style "mad science"--over-the-top vs. textbook--so everything from alchemy to steampunk to cloning in tanks is fine. The protagonist must be lesbian and her sexuality cannot be a stigma. While the mad scientist need not be the protagonist, she must be a three-dimensional character and her interest in (mad) science should have a natural rationale as in real life (though her desired ends to whatever experiment takes place as one of the story arcs need not be natural at all!). Our preference is stories that take place in 19th and 20th centuries, but we are open to other time periods and contemporary tales.
"This book would be shelved in SF/Fantasy. So this is not an erotica anthology. Elements of romance are fine and welcome as long as they are natural to the story.
"Stories should be 2,500 to 12,500 words. Payment is 5 cents a word upon publication, which will be in the fall of 2014. Deadline for all submissions is January 31st, 2014. Submissions must be sent as rtf files to lethepress@aol.com with the subject line DAUGHTERS OF FRANKENSTEIN. Feel free to query us."
It looks like enormous fun, and I’d like to read it. (And, yes, I’ve got a story mostly done, because this is absolutely right up my alley. Though at the moment I’m poking at it looking for ways to make the science bigger and madder…) Steve’s note on Facebook said that he’d gotten too many stories about reanimating a lover rather than the full spectrum of mad science, so - a word to the wise.