Aoife’s Kiss #25, June 2008… (appearances)

Posted on June 2, 2008

First, I’d like to thank my readers and author friends who have emailed recently to see how I am doing in the health department. I’ve received an overwhelming amount of letters (a couple of hundred, so it may take time to get back to everybody) — and I thank you. You don’t know how much I really appreciate the support. The people from the messageboards, everyone from the magazine and independent publishing circuits. Family, friends, and fans… You guys are what makes the Small Press and Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror such a great place.

Second, for those interested, I have a science fiction reprint in the 7th Anniversary Issue of AOIFE’S KISS. June 2008, No. #25. Published by Sam’s Dot Publishing (www.samsdotpublishing.com), who’ll also be releasing a collection of mine down the road.

AOIFE’S KISS #25, June 2008

7th Anniversary Issue

http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/purchasecenter/magazines.htm

Featuring fantastic work by: Mel Hiers, Robert Gardner, James McGowan, Bud Webster, Zia Ahmed, J.A. Pollard, Megan Arkenberg, Angelo Niles, Lawrence R. Dagstine, Christina Amsden, Robert L. Slater, Ryan Bruner, Phillip A. Ellis, David Howerton, Gary Every, Cathy Buburuz, Ami Kaye, Mac Warren Brown, Neal Wilgus, Marge Simon, Rachel Olivier, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Pearl Mary Wilshaw, Tracy Meleca, James B. Livingston, and Sheffield Reynolds. Cover Art by Dan Skinner.

PREVIOUS ISSUES FEATURING LAWRENCE R. DAGSTINE

At this time, I’m doing all right. Just on what you’d call a “Health Holiday”. Keeping strong.

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The Willows Magazine, May 2008… (Coming Soon!)

Posted on May 9, 2008

Are you a fan of Steampunk Horror or steampunk-related clothing and culture? Do you enjoy pulp SF or adventure stories? How about supernatural tales with a Turn-of-the-Century, Lovecraftian feel? Then check out THE WILLOWS! I’ll be Feature Author in their May 2008 Anniversary Issue. With stories by Lawrence Dagstine, G.D. Falksen, Steven Shrewsbury, Andi Newton, and MORE! Edited by Ben Thomas and Skadi meic Beorh.

THE WILLOWS gets mentioned in THE NEW YORK TIMES:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/fashion/08PUNK.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

And congratulations to Frances Rowat for winning the story title contest!

Coming Late May-Early June 2008

THE WILLOWS MAGAZINE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

PRE-ORDER or SUBMIT HERE: www.thewillowsmagazine.com

Previous Issues STILL Available:

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Aoife’s Kiss, Late 2008/Early 2009.. (7th acceptance)

Posted on May 7, 2008

I’ve nabbed my 7th print magazine acceptance to Sam’s Dot Publishing — a teaser for my soon-to-be released short story collection. This teaser story will appear in either late 2008 or early 2009, and in the magazine AOIFE’S KISS (edited by Tyree Campbell). The teaser will coincide with the release date of my first short story collection. A second collection is already completed, and a third is in the works.

AOIFE’S KISS – SAM’S DOT PUBLISHING

RECENT ISSUE(s) FEATURING LAWRENCE DAGSTINE

ORDER HERE:

http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/purchasecenter/magazines.htm

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Sein Und Werden, Summer 2008… (2nd acceptance)

Posted on May 5, 2008

Today’s acceptance is to Rachel Kendall’s very popular existentialist and surreal literature publication, Sein Und Werden. Available in the UK. They not only feature experimental prose, but artwork and poetry in their print version(s), too. Each issue has featured renowned names in the British short story arena, and has its own unique theme. Next issue’s theme is a “mathematical-meets-speculative” one, if I’m not mistaken (or ologies). The current issue is themed: Clandestine Encounters.

This would be my 2nd upcoming appearance…

Details Here: http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/sein.html

Previous Issues featuring Lawrence Dagstine…

Happy Cinco de Mayo…!

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Silverthought Press, May 2008… (acceptance)

Posted on May 3, 2008

My most recent acceptance comes to the May update of Silverthought Press Online, and it should last straight through the end of June. In total, this would be my 59th acceptance with them — yes, that would be correct, fifty-nine — over the past three years. Silverthought is not only an online webzine and peer review/writing discussion forum, but ALSO an independent publisher of high quality novels and anthologies. They’re well known for breeding talent in the short story arena. And they’re now a paying press, too.

Silverthought Online; May 2008

www.silverthought.com

May 2008’s update features fiction by: Kimberly Raiser, Gayla Chaney, Lawrence R. Dagstine, Thomas Henry Dylan, Isaiyan Morrison, Justin Oldham, Mike Philbin, Pavelle Wesser, and excerpts of David S. Grant’s new books and an exclusive interview with the author.

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Jupiter SF, October 2008… (5th acceptance)

Posted on April 23, 2008

My latest acceptance for the month of April 2008 is actually my 5th over the last two-three years to editor Ian Redman’s ‘JUPITER SF’. It’s one of the UK-Small Press’s most widely read hard science fiction publications, and probably just behind Interzone. Published quarterly, they are now in their fifth year of existence. In today’s marketplace not too many small magazines last that long but, due to its popularity, JUPITER has defied those odds.

JUPITER SCIENCE FICTION

Previous Issues Featuring Lawrence Dagstine

ORDER HERE: www.jupitersf.co.uk

I’ll be coming their way again in October 2008…

Authors featured over the years include: Lavie Tidhar, Gareth D. Jones, Gustavo Bondoni, Kristine Ong Muslim, Edward Rodosek, Allan Ashley and Andrew Hook, Lawrence Dagstine, Nigel Atkinson, Jim Steel, Gary McMahon, Lee Clarke Zumpe, Aurelio Rico Lopez III, Eric S. Brown, Lee Moan, Peter Tennant, Davin Ireland, and Christina Sng.

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Whispering Spirits #18, April 2008… (acceptance)

Posted on April 17, 2008

The following acceptance was last minute… Whispering Spirits invited me to be Feature Author for their April 2008 edition. This would be my fourth acceptance with them in total. Edited by Diana Cacy Hawkins, the semi-annual webzine has become a talented showcase of ghost stories, dark poetry, and tales of the supernatural. My story is available as a PDF download, and this edition contains an extra ten pages worth of juicy fiction.

Whispering Spirits: April 2008, Issue #18

http://whisperingspirits.dragynspice.com/issue.html

Featuring Fiction & Poetry by: Lawrence Dagstine, Wayne Summers, G.W. Thomas, Mary C. White, Kristine Ong Muslim, and Lanaia Lee.

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In other news, I’ll also be appearing in four more spec-fic anthologies between this year and next (about the first two, for now). One, which has already found a publisher is, SATIRICA: An Anthology of Satirical Speculative Fiction. When I get more details, publishing information, lineups, stuff like that, I’ll be sure to post it. Next, another SF anthology worth reserving, and edited by Darlene Oakley, would be: EISODOS STATION and Other Adventures.

DEMO COVER BELOW:

Coming Soon…

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Polluto: The Anti-Pop Culture Journal.. (acceptance)

Posted on April 12, 2008

My most recent acceptance comes to a quarterly journal which features some big names: we’re talking Jeff Vandermeer, Michael Moorcock, Steve Redwood, Rhys Hughes, Vince Locke (former illustrator for The Sandman), Patti Plinko, Justina Robson, R.C. Edrington, Dave Migman, Deb Hoag, Paparazzi Whore, Mike Philbin, Chet Gottfried, John Lee Michael, and MORE. Edited by Adam Lowe and Helen Lyttle.

‘POLLUTO: THE ANTI-POP CULTURE JOURNAL’

SAMPLE ISSUES – SAMPLE ISSUES – SAMPLE ISSUES

For Mission Statement and Purchasing Information:

www.polluto.com

Polluto is a quarterly themed Literary Journal which pushes the boundaries of normal everyday fiction. They’re dedicated to publishing edgy, dark, hip (or anti-hip), queer, extreme or surreal fiction within several genres. Poetry and columns, too.

I’ll be in their 4th Issue, late 2008-early 2009. THEME: “Queer and Loathing in Wonderland”. They are also available in limited edition signed hardbacks, and they’re available throughout the UK.

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Escape Velocity #3, April 2008… (appearances)

Posted on April 8, 2008

Well, various Web-based messageboard communities almost collapsed a second time yesterday because certain folks just weren’t sure whether or not Lawrence Dagstine was going to appear in ESCAPE VELOCITY, Issue #3. Check the Table of Contents, I’m there. I had mistakenly been left out due to a ‘substitute story email being missed’ or crossed somehow. It seems Escape Velocity has changed its word lengths, too, and they now prefer much SHORTER works. My original story for them was just too long, and somehow no communication came of this. But, thanks to Robert Blevins, editor for the magazine, the problem has been solved.

ESCAPE VELOCITY; April 2008, Issue #3

The Magazine of Science Fact and Fiction

www.escapevelocitymagazine.com

http://www.lulu.com/content/2315462

So, the sky is not falling…

Featuring work by: Sheila Crosby, Dean Grondo, Kevin Gordon, Michael Penncavage, Branden Johnson, Barbara Krasnoff, Michael Anderson, Ivan Pavlov, Ben Cheetham, Shaun A. Saunders, Lawrence Dagstine, Magdalena Ball, and MORE.

Escape Velocity #3 also contains lots of juicy non-fiction, such as an article on the The Mars Statue, a special tribute to Science Fiction legend Arthur C. Clarke (which, with its stunning full color pictures, makes the issue worth every nickel), and full coverage of the Northwestern Science Fiction Convention… NORWESCON 31.

A review of Escape Velocity #1 at THE FIX (according to the editor, mine was one of the best stories; scroll down): http://thefix-online.com/reviews/escape-velocity-1/

In other news, I have a LOAD of acceptances and great news coming your way. Queries for roughly two more short story collections, a possible novella deal, I’m working with an agent (wouldn’t you like to know who he or she is)… And if you missed my last entry, well, guess what? Here it is again. I’m Feature Author for THE WILLOWS for their March 2008 issue!

https://lawrencedagstine.com/2008/04/05/the-willows-magazine-march-2008-feature-author/

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The Willows Magazine, March 2008… (appearances)

Posted on April 5, 2008

A little late at the presses, but it’s finally here. The Willows Magazine, March 2008 issue. My Feature Author Issue! And I’m not the only surprise. You’ll find pre-World War Two/Victorian Horror and Dark Fantasy stories by names such as: G.D. Falksen, Paul Marlowe, Matthew Stiles, Orrin Grey, Skadi meic Beorh, and Lawrence Dagstine… Oh, and plenty more literary all stars and splendors await you, as we revolutionize today’s weird fiction.

The Willows Magazine, edited by Ben Thomas, is now published bimonthly. It’s one of the freshest and fastest growing publications to hit the Lovecraftian world since… well, since Weird Tales itself!

THE WILLOWS MAGAZINE; March 2008

Feature Author: Lawrence R. Dagstine

www.thewillowsmagazine.com

Subscribe or buy your copy today!

Also, other issues available:

From The Willows Magazine homepage:

Through the work of rising authors like G. D. Falksen, Lawrence Dagstine, and Paul Marlowe, we are also pioneering the genre of “steampunk horror,” in which elements of the golden age weird tale or Gothic romance are combined with an elegant 19th-Century proto-science-fiction aesthetic, such as that embodied by Welles, Verne, and the earliest pulp writers.

We love work set in Victorian times, in the European countryside, in a twisted fairyland, in the underbelly of an enchanted city, aboard a triphibian ambulator, or in the ruins of an undiscovered civilization.

If your favorite authors are those who initiated and maintained the unique movements of weird fiction and proto-SF, and those who continue these traditions today, The Willows is the place to read tales you will enjoy, and to submit your own work! We warmly welcome new writers, but we also print pieces from established authors.

www.thewillowsmagazine.com

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Midnight in Hell, September 2008… (acceptance)

Posted on March 9, 2008

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to snatch a banner, but I found a little pentagram on the web and replaced it with that instead. However, I am VERY pleased to say that this is acceptance No. 300… And it comes March 9th 2008 to a well-known horror webzine that first debuted in 1990, only as a small print magazine and, over the years, joined the Internet ranks and featured some 76 writers and stories. My latest acceptance comes to… Midnight in Hell.

Acceptance Number 300 coming Fall 2008:

Midnight in Hell:

www.midnightinhell.com

Midnight in Hell has featured such writers as: Eric S. Brown, David Byron, Arianrh Darkwing, Christopher Allan Death, Brytan DiTolvo, Brandon Ford, Inanna Gabriel, Ken Goldman, Amy Grech, Sarah Jackson, Shaun Jeffrey, D.F. Lewis, Alison Littlewood, Paul McAvoy, Iain McLachlan, Rick McQuiston, Willie Meikle, David Nordahl, Nik Perring, Mike Philbin, David Price, James Riser, Deon C. Sanders, Tom Smith, Jim Steel, Paula Villegas, and John Walsh.

Also, please stay tuned to this blog over the next week or so. I’ll have a special entry dedicated to my 300th acceptance, where I’ll talk about what I compare writing to, how I define it and feel about being an author, what it’s been like all these years for me and more… Hey, you might be surprised.

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The Willows Magazine, March 2008… (acceptance)

Posted on March 2, 2008

First, I’m pleased to announce that March 2008 into April 2008 will be Feature Author month for me, and not just from The Willows Magazine, but a couple of other publications over the stretch of a month-and-a-half, too. It’s also the month of my birthday, and when I’m sure to hit the big 300 (no, not age, folks — publications; a goal I set out to do almost twelve years ago). But those will be plugs and blog entries in itself.

THE WILLOWS MAGAZINE

www.thewillowsmagazine.com

Meanwhile, acceptance no. 298 comes as one of the headlining authors to The Willows Magazine for their March 2008 Issue, which might be a little late at the printers, but is due in the next week or two. I’ll put up another blog when the actual issue is released. In the meantime, be sure to check out two of their previous issues. They’re only $5.00 per copy, and filled with exciting pre-World War 2 weird tales and Victorian horror stories. I can be found, once again, as Feature Author in their November 2007 issue.

That Link Again: www.thewillowsmagazine.com

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Written Word Magazine… (4th acceptance)

Posted on February 12, 2008

I’ve just received my 4th acceptance to Written Word Online Magazine. Editor Ace Masters, and co-editor Barb McCaffrey, have emailed me to tell me how delighted they are with the work I have submitted to them as of late. They also seem interested in a 5th tale, and I plan to make the suggested revisions to it for them in the next couple of months.

Written Word Online Magazine

www.writtenwordmag.com

In other news, Peter Tennant and D of Whispers of Wickedness have promoted me. I’m now a forum moderator for their short story & anthology marketing sections.

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Nova SF #22, Late Fall 2008… (4th acceptance)

Posted on January 8, 2008

Earlier today I received my 4th acceptance to Nova Science Fiction. My previous three appearances (Issues #15, #18, and #20) can be found in the November 2007 archives. I’m not sure if I’ll get the dedicated cover art for a fourth time, but for readers and fans of the publication, I’ll be coming to Issue #22. Fall 2008, website below. They pay 1/2 cent per word for quality fiction up to 8,000 words in length.