Kenneth Hite’s living the dream. He stays up all night. Wakes at 1 PM. Only wears pants when—if–he leaves the house. Of course, he’s also written about 60 books, so it’s not as though he’s slacking.
As a full-time freelancer, Hite is almost constantly stumping new clients, tending to current clients, and playing whack-a-mole with deadlines. Spend 20 minutes talking to Hite and you won’t know whether you should take notes or run screaming into the night. Or both.
Angry Robot Books has opened the doors to unsolicited manuscripts for March. That’s right, they’ve put out an open call. This month. There’s only one week left, so hurry, hurry, and read the submission guidelines.
Angry Robot is an England-based, global imprint specializing in “modern adult science fiction, fantasy and everything in between.” (It’s that “everything in between” that gets me excited.) Their roster includes Dan Abnett, Guy Adams, Lauren Beukes, Maurice Broaddus, Aliette de Bodard, Matt Forbeck, J Robert King, Chris Roberson, Gav Thorpe, Lavie Tidhar, and Kaaron Warren.
I am irrationally excited about Angry Robot’s open call, not because I plan to send in a manuscript, but because I’ve yet to read an Angry Robot book that I didn’t thoroughly enjoy. Likewise, I’ve yet to even see an Angry Robot book that I did not want to snatch up, rush home, and read. Right then. Right now.
A couple of days ago, I got in touch with Lee Harris, an editor at Angry Robot, and asked him why Angry Robot was opening the doors to unsolicited manuscripts.
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For more than 30 years, Candy Moulton has worked as a writer, editor, researcher, and photographer. Most of that time she has been freelancing. In the spirit of the Old West, she turned a hardship (loss of her job) into a new life (as a freelancer).
“There is no salary in freelancing,” Moulton said, matter of factly. “There is income that you generate by finding good opportunities and producing solid material and hitting deadlines.”
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Jason Sizemore is the owner and operator of Apex Publications. I first encountered Jason at a bookstore in Lexington, KY. I sat behind him in the audience at a fiction reading. I knew Sizemore as “the guy who does the horror magazine” and I’d wanted to tell him how much I admired his work, but there was too much of a crowd. I figured he was probably a pretty interesting guy—people who are that into horror fiction usually are. So are people who start magazines. Usually.
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