@planetscumm.bsky.social
science fiction, illustrated π http://planetscumm.space
We are reading now! Seeking sci-fi stories that disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
8c / word.
www.planetscumm.space/submit
16 of your favorite lit mags just opened for submissions 1 Planet Scumm 2 Southword Journal 3 Waxwing Literary Journal 4 Gulf Stream Magazine 5 Lunch Ticket 6 Mudroom 7 The London Magazine 8 Flash Point SF 9 New Delta Review 10 BODY 11 Indiana Review 12 ZYZZYVA 13 Swamp Pink 14 Vestal Review 15 Identity Theory 16 32 Poems
Lots of industry badies opened for submissions this week. I mean badies in a good wayβ¦. goodies? Ick, no.
Whatever WHERE TO SUBMIT THIS WEEEEEKβ¨β¨β¨
Find them on: www.chillsubs.com/browse
Yum yum yum yum Twitter with less fascists.
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We are reading now! Seeking sci-fi stories that disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
8c / word.
www.planetscumm.space/submit
Hugo Nominations are open until March 9th! I have 1 novelette and 5 short stories published in 2023 and eligible for a Hugo. If you want to read ONE thing that I published, may I humbly recommend my novelette "A Short Biography of a Conscious Chair".
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Les Miserables who?
New brick just dropped: Planet Scumm's second anthology is more than twice the size of the last one. Madness, we tell you! Get the prettiest new addition to your shelves and start the new year right, with stellar sci-fi!
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TIME'S RUNNING OUT!
Our absurd, spectacular deal of a FREE back issue with the preorder of EVERYTHING! VOL. 2 will expire this Friday!! Get the equivalent of SEVEN Planet Scumm issues limited time only -- two more days!
Who needs Santa when you have Scummy Claus to tell you what list you're on this year?
Have you pre-ordered Vol.2 yet? NICE LIST!
Have you NOT preordered, even though you'll get a free book with it? NAUGHTY!
But there's still time before Scummy slimes your chimney... π
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at very long last i will finally head over to Australia in March to do some book events. Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane over three days. all ticket links are in my bio, and recommendations for how to make the most of my brief time in AUS very welcome!
06.12.2023 02:44 β π 107 π 22 π¬ 10 π 1
Holiday season and we know what you're thinking: what to get that one friend who has everything?
Why, EVERYTHING! Vol. 2, of course!
And you get a FREEBIE BACK ISSUE if you preorder before 12/15, so scurry on down!
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Uncle, how to get to the beautiful country? by Xiaoyu Wang a green alien in a space suit showing a map to a seated man smoking a cigarette playing a board game
explaining some online beef to a normal person
04.12.2023 16:05 β π 6233 π 1588 π¬ 32 π 72
You can now read my story "A Man, Running" that was published in @planetscumm.bsky.social #13, along with the amazing art done for it!
#SpecLit
Don't get caught out in the cold this winter! Get bundled up...
...with Scumm deals!
Like our Threefer bundle of Issues 13, 14, & 15 for just $30!
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Sales season isn't over yet! There's still time to snag some slime-covered deals!
You'll be the talk of the town, the envy of your friends, the master of your intergalactic fleet...
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BLACK FRIDAY RECKLESS DEALS! Follow up your food coma with such treats as:
π¦Free back issue w/preorder of Vol 2 ($35)
π¦Value pack of issues 13/14/15 for $30
π¦The FEAST: Vol 2 preorder, 3-issue subscription, 13/14/15 bundle, and a raccoon print
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The new anthology from @planetscumm.bsky.social collects issues #5-10, and features my story Zone 59. The story was originally published in Issue #7: A Wrinkle in Slime, way back in 2019. Available in paperback and ebook from their website: www.planetscumm.space/shop
21.11.2023 18:33 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's EVERYTHING! Vol. 2, our sequel anthology of issues 5-10: a wild amount of sci-fi for your buck
Need a white elephant prezzie? Shopping for a hard to shop for relative? Want a paperweight?
PREORDER VOL. 2, out 12/15
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Here comes Award Eligilibity season! Those are the works I published in 2023 that are eligible for the Hugos, Nebulas, and other SFF awards Tell me if you need a copy for consideration!
17.11.2023 23:10 β π 13 π 7 π¬ 1 π 2"The Throat of San Dante" β @planetscumm.bsky.social #15
San Dante is a city that is always changing. According to economic algorithms, neighborhoods are transformed overnight. Rita tries to convice her aunt to move out and will find out many things about herself.
A wild Planet Scumm booth (and EiC Tyler Berd) spotted at the Portland Book Festival! Here's hoping he was selling people some amazing sci-fi books and not sacrificing them to the intergalactic despot Scummy...
17.11.2023 14:00 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you to everyone who sacrificed their story babies to the issue 18 submission call! We received around 1000 subs from y'all π€―
We have a hardworking, enthusiastic team of first readers, and we appreciate your patience as we get through the pile as quickly as possible ππ½π€
Had a blast at #portlandbookfest spreading the good news about our overlord Scummy! Thanks to @literaryarts and all who swung by to share the love!
Couldn't make it? Visit our online shop for slimy, sci-fi goodies! planetscumm.space/shop
Last 3 days to submit your weird, slipstream sci-fi for Issue 18 of Planet Scumm! We close at midnight on Nov 5, so polish those slime babies up and send em our way!
www.planetscumm.space/submit
I add to this list:
YOU! People should subscribe Interzone AND IZ Digital.
And:
@bourbonpenn.bsky.social
@planetscumm.bsky.social
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
All of whom offer an awesome variety of the written word at the highest level of craft.
πΆThat's us in the corner
That's us in the spot light
Open for submissions πΆ
(but only until Nov 5, get those scifi gems locked, loaded, and jettisoned to the Planet Scumm airbase asap!)
#submissionsopen #opencall #litmag
www.planetscumm.space/submit
This was my 3rd short story ever published. :) Enjoy!
16.09.2023 22:09 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0It's the weekend, so you should submit an SFF 250-word story about crabs to Crab Tales π¦
crabtalesmagazine.com
SUBMISSION AIRLOCK IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!
Send us your weird/quirky/tasty morsel of a sci-fi story, and do it before Scummy changes his mind! (though we've negotiated with his imperial slimeness that you have until Nov 5 to submit. And you will. Submit.)
WE PAY 6Β’/WORD
www.planetscumm.space/submit
SUBMISSION AIRLOCK IS OFFICIALLY OPEN!
Send us your weird/quirky/tasty morsel of a sci-fi story, and do it before Scummy changes his mind! (though we've negotiated with his imperial slimeness that you have until Nov 5 to submit. And you will. Submit.)
WE PAY 6Β’/WORD
www.planetscumm.space/submit
