M-BRANE Science Fiction, February 2009… (Coming Soon!)

Posted on December 18, 2008

With Arkham Tales, Atomjack, and Necrography just around the corner, I would have to say that this will probably be my last story acceptance for the year 2008. I’ll have about 30 stories coming out over the next 12 months to some very fine and familiar publications. However, there’s a new magazine that will be available in print and PDF format come February. It’s a monthly. The pay isn’t big, but with subscriptions and good authors that could change. A very likable venue, too. Simple looking. It’s called M-BRANE SF. It looks very promising, and Christopher Fletcher is an extremely nice editor. He also does reviews and SF analysis, too.

M-BRANE SCIENCE FICTION

Issue # 1 and #2 Coming Soon!

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES/SF REVIEWS:

http://mbranesf.blogspot.com/

I don’t know who the first two issues consist of yet, but since I could not find a banner, I thought this public domain pic of a space shuttle entering the atmosphere would be cool. In other news…

FRESH BLOOD, my collection from Sam’s Dot Publishing, has currently surpassed the 60,000+ word mark (making it novel-length). Also, writers have been emailing me in regards to my hiatus rumors. Other than Sam’s Dot… YES, where smaller genre publications are concerned, 350 publishing credits will mark a form of retirement for me, and 2009 will not only be a year off… but a year of book promotions, outlining projects, direction, new ideas, and most important, change…

Happy Holidays everyone.

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

NOVA Science Fiction, Issue #22… (4th appearance)

Posted on October 20, 2008

The latest issue of NOVA Scifi, No. 22, is finally available. NOVA is easily one of the better Hard SF-meets-religious-SF based magazines available in the American small press today. This would be my 4th appearance with them. The cover art is dedicated to Jon Cooper’s, “Pharoah”.

Previous Issues featuring Lawrence R. Dagstine:

-Issues #15, #18, #20, and New Issue #22–

Homepage: www.novascifi.com

Issue Archive: http://www.novascifi.com/issues.html

Issue #22 Fiction by: Jon Cooper, Erik Lenhart, Lawrence Dagstine, Joanne Tolson, Susan Taylor, Howard Bowman, Wesley Kawato, and Wesley Lambert. Cover art by Josh Grieve.

Snail Mail and Queries: Nova Science Fiction, C/O Wesley Kawato, 17983 Paseo Del Sol, Chino Hills, CA 91709-3947

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

JUPITER SF, October 2008; Issue #22… (appearances)

Posted on October 8, 2008

Now available in print is my fifth appearance to one of England’s longest-running — and also most widely read next to Interzone — small press magazines of Hard Science Fiction/Space Exploration. JUPITER SF. Edited quarterly by Ian Redman, Jupiter has become home to many prolific names and British stars in the speculative fiction field today. A magazine worth checking out, and with stories that are sure to please. Over five years running, each issue is aptly named after a satellite either orbiting Jupiter or within close trajectory.

JUPITER SCIENCE FICTION

October 2008 – Issue #22

ORDER HERE: www.jupitersf.co.uk

Featuring work by: Geoff Nelder, Lawrence R. Dagstine, Carmelo Rafala, Gareth D. Jones, Simon Petrie, and David Vickery. Cover artwork by R.J. Bartrop.

Previous FOUR Issues featuring Lawrence R. Dagstine

Issues #12, #13, #15, and #17

Also, order these magazines above and other great SF titles from THE GENRE MALL – http://www.genremall.com/contents.htm

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

Pablo Lennis #250, September 2008… (appearances)

Posted on September 1, 2008

I’ve missed the last few months worth of fanzine entries, so I’ll start again fresh here. I have a story in the special — and rather thick, might I add — 250th Anniversary Issue of Scifi’s longest running fanzine. PABLO LENNIS, Issue #250… 22 Years in print. And over that 22 year period, tons of great authors and poets, prolific and new, have come and gone. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s one of the last snail mails of its kind left. It’s where my fiction first saw print back in the mid-90’s, and it’s edited by John Thiel of Indiana. John, God Bless, and here’s to the next 250 issues…

PABLO LENNIS: Issue #250, September 2008

250th Anniversary Edition

Submissions or $2.00 per sample issue

SEND TO: PABLO LENNIS, 30 N. 19th Street, Lafayette, Indiana 47904

There’s a ton of reprinted short stories over the last two decades from some very fine and familiar authors — old-schoolers! Not to mention articles on science and religion, book and movie reviews, and SF poetry.

Other New Entries: “Magazines”

Pablo Lennis, May 2008… (appearances)

Posted on April 29, 2008

Been a long month in the writing department (so many short stories to churn out for so many places), but my latest acceptance is actually a last-minute reprint, and it comes to one of the longest running zines of science fiction and fantasy literature. PABLO LENNIS. Issue No. #246.

PABLO LENNIS #246; May 2008

Like last month’s issue, its contents are rather abstract in form. It’s also the first issue in quite some time to feature a thin, semi-gloss cover.

This issue features works by: Lawrence Dagstine, Paul Truttman, Steve Sneyd, Albert Manachino, Gerald Heyder, John Binns, Herbert Jerry Baker, Peter Layton, Rose Gordy, Gary Every, and Joanne Tolson.

Their snail mail address for submissions:

Pablo Lennis

30 N. 19th Street

Lafayette, Indiana 47904

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Also, now up from Whispers of Wickedness, and archived at the bottom of the ‘READINGS & REVIEWS’ section, my review for one of the newest and most popular counterculture literary journals to hit the UK. They have featured such names as Jeff VanderMeer, Rhys Hughes, and Steve Redwood. I’ll be in their fourth issue myself, with a gay fiction piece. Polluto also marks my first literary journal acceptance. 😉

ORDER HERE: www.polluto.com

SEE REVIEW HERE: http://www.ookami.co.uk/html/polluto__1.html

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits, Readings & Reviews.”

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.

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits”

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/

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits”

Pablo Lennis #245, April 2008… (appearances)

Posted on March 29, 2008

Been a long month, but my latest acceptance/appearance is number… Oh, just kidding, no need to count anymore. But seriously, my latest comes to one of the longest running zines of science fiction and fantasy. PABLO LENNIS. Issue No. #245; I’m actually anticipating their 250th anniversary issue in five months from now. Not many publications other than perhaps a few pros last 250 issues. They’re edited monthly by John Thiel, and put out by VacHume Press, Oort Cloud Publications…

PABLO LENNIS #245; April 2008

It’s a rather abstract issue, and I don’t only mean the art and fiction, but the book reviews and article subjects, too. Oh yeah, and did I mention poetry?

This issue features works by: Rose Gordy, Steve Sneyd, Paul Truttman, Lawrence R. Dagstine, Gerald Heyder, Albert J. Manachino, Peter Layton, William Wake Wallace, McArthur Gunter, Hazil the Witch, Gary Every, Joanne Tolson, Elmwood Kraemer, and artwork by Maxine Colby.

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Available in Indiana, their snail mail address for submissions is:

Pablo Lennis

30 N. 19th Street

Lafayette, Indiana 47904

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits, Family Album”

Pablo Lennis #244, March 2008… (appearances)

Posted on March 3, 2008

Acceptance No. 299 is also an appearance, and it comes to one of the longest running scifi fanzines out there (since the 1980’s). PABLO LENNIS. They also feature poetry, book reviews, movie reviews, news involving hard science and more. Edited by John Thiel, and published by Oort Cloud Publications, VacHume Press.

Pablo Lennis, No. #244; March 2008

Featuring Great Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry by: Bob Bolin, Jim Sullivan, Paul Truttman, E. Mark Mitchell, Joanne Tolson, Albert J. Manachino, William Wallace, Rose Gordy, Hazil the Witch, Gerald Heyder, R.W. Marino Jr., Gary Every, Steve Sneyd, Elmwood Kraemer, Peter Layton, Lawrence R. Dagstine, Herbert Jerry Baker, and MORE…

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits”

Surprising Stories, Mid 2008… (acceptance)

Posted on February 27, 2008

My latest acceptance comes to a wonderfully entertaining little e-zine filled to the rim with hard science fiction, fantasy, and otherworldly poetry. Non-fiction and speculative fiction book reviews, too: Surprising Stories. Their current issue, No. #16, features my pulp asteroid tale: The Doomsday Initiative.

Previous Issues of Surprising Stories

featuring Lawrence Dagstine:

http://surprisingstories.dcwi.com/Contents.htm

My next appearance is scheduled for May or June. Or, pretty much, the spring-summer 2008 edition.

Other New Links: “Horror World (author resource), Silverthought Press (yet another author resource)”

Pablo Lennis #243, February 2008… (appearances)

Posted on January 30, 2008

My latest acceptance/appearance comes to the longest running fanzine of science fiction and science fact, Pablo Lennis. Oort Cloud Publications, VacHume Press. Edited by John Thiel. The pages of PL are also where I made my first amateur appearance back in 1996.

Pablo Lennis #243, February 2008

Fiction & Poetry by: Jeffrey Marzi, Lawrence Dagstine, Gerald Heyder, Joanne Tolson, Bob Bolin, Tracy Milletary, Albert J. Manachino, Gary Every, R.W. Marino Jr., Walter M. Chellberg, Hazil the Witch, Paul Truttman, Herbert Jerry Baker, Steve Sneyd, reviews by Elmwood Kraemer & John Thiel. Art/Illustrations by Ramos Fumes.

For submissions or ordering info, snail mail only:

PABLO LENNIS

30 N. 19th Street

Lafayette, IN 47904

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits”

Surprising Stories #16, Jan. 2008… (appearances)

Posted on January 3, 2008

New Years 2008 starts off with a BANG! And acceptance/appearance no. 286. A good old fashioned SF webzine with a plethora of wholesome reading material. Surprising Stories. This edition features an interview and dedication to the late Jack Williamson, too.

SURPRISING STORIES

Issue #16; January 2008

Featuring: “The Doomsday Initiative” by Lawrence Dagstine

Link: http://surprisingstories.dcwi.com/

With fiction by: Jeffrey Marzi, Joanne Tolson, Rose Gordy, Herbert Jerry Baker, Bonnie P. Newton, Ray Reents, Archie V. Taylor, Brian McGrady, Keith E. Jones, Dale A. White, Kevin Ahearn, Larry Gaffney, poetry and MORE!

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Also, new in Readings & Reviews:

My review of Jupiter SF #18, Themisto

Direct Link: http://ookami.co.uk/html/jupiter_xviii.html

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits, Readings & Reviews”

Nova SF #20, Late 2007… (Now Available!)

Posted on November 21, 2007

The latest issue of NOVA Scifi, No. 20, is finally available. NOVA SF is easily one of the best hard, soft, or religious scifi magazines available today in the smaller presses. Like England’s Jupiter SF (www.jupitersf.co.uk), the stories won’t let you down. NOVA SF #20 is my third appearance within their pages. I am also, for the 3rd or 4th time this month, ‘Feature Author’. The artwork this month is dedicated to my story, “A Soul to the Stars.”

NOVA Science Fiction #20

http://www.novascifi.com

Featuring Fiction by: Lawrence Dagstine, Robert Anderson, Kevin Coyle, Steve Stanton, Scott Waclawik, and Don Kerr. Edited by Wesley Kawato. Cover art by Josh Grieve. He did a tremendous job; the cover art matches my story’s theme, dead-on! Much respect.

They’ve been around a few years. They only accept snail mail submissions. If you have a manuscript that’s Hard SF or Religious SF and well-written in nature, and you have some kind of science fiction resume to back up your experience, then I’d query them. They are listed in the Writer’s Market and indexed by Locus Online.

For Submissions or Queries: Nova Science Fiction, C/O Wesley Kawato, 17983 Paseo Del Sol, Chino Hills, CA 91709-3947

Here are some of my past issue covers.

http://www.novascifi.com

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits”

Escape Velocity, Issue #1… (Now Available!)

Posted on November 11, 2007

Escape Velocity Issue #1, Volume #1.

Ordering Info: http://www.adventurebooksofseattle.com/

Published by Adventure Books of Seattle. Only $8.99, 168 pages.

Featuring SF by: A.W. Gifford, Alex S. Weinle, Geoff Nelder, Yvonne Eve Walus, Barbara Krasnoff, Gideon Kane Cross, Michael Anderson, Vincent F.A. Golphin, Paul A. Freeman, Clyde Andrews, Lawrence R. Dagstine, Eddie French, Sheila Crosby, Gustavo Bondoni, TJ McIntyre, Jaine Fenn, Matthew Spence, Carmelo Rafala, and Magdalena Ball.

Edit: This entry originally appeared in Oct., but I didn’t have a lineup until now.

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Alternate Perceptions #46, Spring 1999…

Posted on November 4, 2007

And now, direct from the DAGSTINE LAND archives… A Blast from the Past…!

November’s Blast from the Past brings us a MAJOR non-fiction UFO/Paranormal magazine from the 1990’s, which was available on Newsstands and in Borders. Back in the spring of 1999 I put my journalism skills to good use and nabbed my first two-page spread, and my first non-fiction/freelance writing credit. Hard to believe that was over eight years ago. I even had my picture between the pages with a theoretical article on a religious subject we know very little about: Angelic and Human association.

The name of my first non-fiction article: “Origins of Man: Were Angels our Teachers and Forefathers?” Between the pages of “Alternate Perceptions”, Non-Fiction Journal of UFOs, History, Native Spirituality, and Paranormal Phenomena. Yeah, I know… All that fun ‘unsolved mystery’ kind of stuff. To my knowledge, they’ve switched to an irregular online format: http://www.mysterious-america.net/

Here’s what the magazine and editorial staff were all about:

http://www.answers.com/topic/alternate-perceptions

The links above are all that remains of this once great magazine. When I walked into Borders with my mother and saw Issue#46 on the magazine rack, she told me how proud of me she was. After all, this was my first non-fiction sale. I was only 25. Other features to this issue included an article on Nostradamus by Dr. Greg Little. Also, non-fiction by Dr. Susan Shumsky, Al Fry, Scott Dow, Brent Raynes (editor), and Dr. Berthold Schwarz MD, among others…

Until next time… 😉

Lawrence R. Dagstine

Pablo Lennis #240, Nov. 2007… (appearances)

Posted on November 3, 2007

Acceptance/Appearance No. 281 comes today to Pablo Lennis #240, one of the oldest small press fanzines of science fiction, fantasy and horror out there. The November 2007 Issue. You can own a copy for just $2.00, they’re based in Indiana, with a tiny but decent circulation. And they’re published by Oort Cloud Publications, Vachume Press.

PABLO LENNIS #240, November 2007…

Snail Mail Submissions or Orders only:

PABLO LENNIS

30 N. 19th Street

Lafayette, Indiana 47904

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits, Unplanned Parenthood 1”

OG’s Speculative Fiction (opinion guy; acceptance)

Posted on October 7, 2007

I just had an acceptance this evening to OG’s Speculative Fiction., a.k.a. The Opinion Guy! They’re a paying print-online publication, and award-winning writer Seth Crossman is the editor. Over the years they’ve featured such authors as: Lou Antonelli, Kristine Ong Muslim, Jason Earl, Karen Romanko, Brian Dolton, and Angeline Hawkes…

OG’s Speculative Fiction:

www.theopinionguy.com

For sample back issues, these are what they look like. I have no idea yet what issue I got into. It could be late this year or sometime next. But each print issue is between 24 and 30 pages long. And anywhere between 4 and 5 authors or poets per issue. Two authors most of the time. Must be hard to break into this market.

That link again: www.theopinionguy.com

Other New Entries: “Bibliography, Magazine Credits”

The Ultimate Unknown #23, Summer 2001…

Posted on October 6, 2007

And now, direct from the DAGSTINE LAND archives… A Blast from the Past…!

Well, sort of. I have to start cataloging some of these older magazine appearances. Many of them have long since gone defunct (out of biz, basically), but it’s hard to believe that my name first started appearing in print years ago in small press magazines like this one. You may or may not recognize some of these zines of old but, who knows, you might recognize the names at least. The authors who graced the interiors or covers way back.

The Ultimate Unknown, Issue #23.. Summer 2001

SF Stories by: C. David Hay, Douglas M. Stokes PhD, Barbara A. Custer, Rhonda Jackson, Edward M. Turner, John Picinich, Rose Devi, Daniel S. Irwin, Erik Wilkins, Joanne Tolson, Travis Shephard, Josh Bingham, Terry Pieszchala, K.A. Williams, Kristy Mitchell, Joseph Veronmeau, Joseph Benjamin, Denny J. Corbin, David Combs (also the editor), DF Lewis, Lawrence Dagstine, J. Alan Erwine, and Susan L. Taylor. Cover art by Chris Friend, who I believe also did the cover for the most recent issue of ‘Werewolf Magazine (no. 7)’…

Trust me, I wish URL’s were still available for these classic zines. They don’t make them like they used to. My first small press print magazines, other than Pablo Lennis, were between 1999 and 2001. Every so often I’ll update the old with the new. I have a lot more to catalog and archive, so this will become a new feature to my blog.

Until my next blast from the past… 😉

Lawrence R. Dagstine

Pablo Lennis, October 2007… (appearances)

Posted on October 5, 2007

I’ve got a new story this month in the October 2007 issue of Pablo Lennis. Editor-in-chief John Thiel runs one of the oldest stapled-up science fiction & fantasy fanzines out there. He’s been putting it out since the 1980’s. Pablo Lennis was also the first place to ever publish me, with a SF tale back in spring 1996, called: “The Empty Planet.”

Lineup of scifi & fantasy writers, SF poets, and serialists include the usual suspects: Joanne Tolson, Albert Manachino, Chester Cuthbert, Joe Napolitano, Gary Every, Mel Waldeman, Steve Sneyd, Lawrence Dagstine, and more! Published monthly, John Thiel, alongside Elmwood Kraemer, also write the zine’s science fiction television, movie, and book reviews.

They accept SF, Fantasy and Poetry via SNAIL MAIL. Payment is one contributor copy and some decent small press exposure (circulation 100 to 150). Sample copies are only two dollars. Submission address below:

Pablo Lennis

30 N. 19th Street

Lafayette, Indiana 47904

You can also find me in their March 2007 issue. 😉

Other New Entries: “Magazine Credits, Movies & Videos, Readings & Reviews”

Other New Entries: “Unplanned Parenthood 1, Unplanned Parenthood 2”

(entry edited for mistaken author name/particular issue…)

Now THIS is why I write sci-fi… (science fact)

Posted on September 18, 2007

I snagged some of these artist-rendered pics of Extrasolar Planets from MSN, roughly 10 in all. Some of these places are only a few light years away, but they’re just awesome. 51 Pegasi, the exoplanet in the first pic was actually the title of my third written short story back in 1996. My third story ever. You can see how one would be inspired to write about this kind of stuff.

51 Pegasi – (the first extrasolar star)

In a few centuries, mankind will be traveling to these places. Look at the wonder below. I live for this kind of fiction, I live for the magic. This is why I write science fiction… This is what motivates me to stay within this genre. Man’s domination of the stars!

Bellerphon – (51 Pegasi orbits this hot Jupiter-like star)

Epsilon Eridani – (only 10.5 light years away from Earth)

Planemos – (failed stars smaller than brown dwarfs)

SWEEPS-10 – (a zippy, fast orbiting planet with 10 hours in a year)

Upsilon Andromeda – (one half fire; the other half ice)

Primeval World – (supposedly the original and first Earthlike planet)

HD209458b – (a shrinking planet blown away by gales of stellar wind)

HD 189733b – (the first planet to have its own air “sniffed”)

Gliese 581 C – (smallest exoplanet ever yet 50% bigger than Earth)

There’s also the possibility that Gliese, five times more massive than us, has liquid water and life on it. Anyway, now you know why I write 50% Science Fiction. These images are Copyright NASA (JPL-Caltech), and you can find the original online article and learn more about each of them here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19588333/?GT1=10357&pg=1#Space_10ExtraSolarPlanets_070626

Oh, there might be a story in the works about that crazy quick orbiting world, SWEEPS-10, as we speak. So stay tuned… 😉

Lawrence R. Dagstine

Other New Entries: “Movies & Videos 2, Dagstine Land (box.net file sharing; Moby)”