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SFF/mystery author: Hope Island, Snakeskins, #SherlockHolmes, Jekyll & Hyde. #writingcommunity

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Inc cursed cookery, societal collapse, migration and eating the rich.

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Open submission calls for writers: April 2024 – Tim Major

Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. Cursed CookingAlongside actual recipes, this anthology will contain stories of food-based horror. (But note that, reason..

09:05 AM - Apr 11, 2024

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Inc Grimm retellings, time-travel horror, forests and frost.

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Open submission calls for writers: March 2024 – Tim Major

Here’s this month’s list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. Grimm RetoldThis sounds brilliant: an anthology of horror and dark fantasy stories retelling Grimms’ fairy tales. Pay cl..

08:31 AM - Mar 06, 2024

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Writers of #SFF and #horror ! I’m currently putting together a list of open calls for short story submissions – they’ll appear in my next email newsletter, to be sent out early next week.

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07:22 AM - Mar 01, 2024

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Surprised and chuffed to see that my story ‘Far From the Tree’ has been shortlisted for Brave New Weird (best weird fiction of 2023) by Tenebrous Press.

It was originally published by Chthonic Matter in the excellent anthology Come October.
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03:58 AM - Feb 21, 2024

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Very pleased to announce that Salò Press will publish my story ‘Echec!’ as a chapbook next month. It’s a dark comedy about the chess-playing automaton known as the Mechanical Turk.

It's pre-orderable now, shipped in early March.
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Echec! – Tim Major |

I’ll show the people a true spectacle.For years, Schlumberger has operated the chess-playing automaton known as the Mechanical Turk… and it’s killing him. Tonight, trapped together in the backstage area of a Cuban theatre, it’s time for their final game.As box-cutter-sharp as Ellison and as wickedly

11:08 AM - Feb 18, 2024

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Here’s this month’s blog post of open submission calls for #SFF & #horror writers! Inc SF fairy tales, clowns, dark travel guides and graveyards.

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Open submission calls for writers: February 2024 – Tim Major

Here's this month's list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found!Sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. Once Upon a Future TimeThis is the fourth volume in this anthology series that specialises in fairy tales reto..

07:43 AM - Feb 09, 2024

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Writers of #SFF and #horror ! I’ll be sending out my next email newsletter tomorrow. Alongside writing news, it contains lots of calls for #opensubmissions for short stories. And I mean a *lot*.

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07:35 AM - Feb 06, 2024

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This month’s blog post of opportunities for #SFF , #horror & #mystery writers features 22 open submission calls!

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Open submission calls for writers: January 2024 – Tim Major

Celebrate the new year with this bumper list of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found recently! And a reminder: sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open calls like these. CatsCastWho knew that the excellent audio fiction company Escape Artists h..

09:54 AM - Jan 16, 2024

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I’ve got a story in this month’s Interzone! ‘Wesley Not-There’ is a tender little tale about a diner waitress and an invisible person. I’m really fond of it, and I hope it gets read.

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Interzone #297 – INTERZONE

In IZ 297: stories by Daniel Bennett, Cécile Cristofari, Rachael Cupp, Jennifer R. Donohue, Paul E. Franz, Ivy Grimes, Dante Luiz, Tim Major, and James Sallis; columns by Alexander Glass, Nick Lowe, Val Nolan, and Aliya Whiteley; and book reviews by Zachary Gillan, Alexander Glass, Kelly Jennings, a..

06:26 AM - Jan 16, 2024

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COVER REVEAL! Look at the beautiful cover for JEKYLL & HYDE: CONSULTING DETECTIVES!

Dr Jekyll and his monstrous alter-ego join forces with his ex-fiancée to solve a series of disappearances across Victorian London in this thrilling mystery.

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05:42 AM - Jan 11, 2024

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I’ll be sending out my next email newsletter tomorrow. As always, it has lots of calls for #opensubmissions for short stories, esp #SFF & #horror .

And… it’ll also include a cover reveal for my next book!

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09:20 AM - Jan 10, 2024

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Two final blog posts for 2023...

Blog post 1 – My favourite books of the year https://timjmajor.com/2023...

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Favourite books of 2023 – Tim Major

Of those published this year, the novel that perfectly matched my tastes was Biography of X by Catherine Lacey. It’s a fictitious biography of an artist skilled in creating diverse stage (and off-stage) personas, and as it’s written by her wife it’s a conceit that allows for insights into both chara..

11:42 AM - Dec 29, 2023

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Blog post listing my favourite albums of 2023: https://timjmajor.com/2023...

10:14 AM - Dec 19, 2023

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ATTENTION WRITERS: I’ll be sending out my next email newsletter early next week, and as usual it’ll contain lots of calls for #opensubmissions for short stories, esp #SFF & #horror . Do sign up if this will be of use to you!

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05:57 AM - Dec 08, 2023

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Each month I make a list of open calls for submissions for writers. Here’s a list of 12 venues for November/December, featuring maps of lost places, rats, space exploration and werewolves: https://timjmajor.com/2023...

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Open submission calls for writers: November 2023 – Tim Major

It's that time again! Here are the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found recently. And a reminder: sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open submission calls like these. The Map of Lost PlacesThis sounds brilliant. Apex editors Sheree Renée Thom..

09:28 AM - Nov 21, 2023

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I love end-of-year lists (even surprisingly early ones) so I was chuffed to be asked to name my favourite reads of 2023 for book-recommendation website Shepherd.com. My list features three very different mysteries.

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Tim Major's 3 favorite reads in 2023

Tim is an author, Editor, and Golden Age mystery fan.

04:32 AM - Nov 01, 2023

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Each month I make a list of open calls for submissions for writers.

Here’s a list of 18 venues for October, featuring fungi, pirates, labyrinths and spookiness:
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Open submission calls for writers: October 2023 – Tim Major

This monthly blog post always comes around so fast! Here are the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found recently. And a reminder: sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open submission calls like these. Best of British Science FictionThis reprint anthol..

10:20 AM - Oct 23, 2023

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It’s publication day for the paperback edition of SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE TWELVE THEFTS OF CHRISTMAS!

It contains (at least) 12 connected mysteries, a real-life Arctic explorer, Irene Adler, plus Mary Watson, Mrs Hudson, Toby the dog (in an elf costume). And it’s so *shiny*! (1/2)

03:00 AM - Oct 17, 2023

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FYI, I’ll be sending out my next author newsletter tomorrow. Along with my own publication news, it’ll contain a big list of interesting open calls for submissions for writers.

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10:20 AM - Oct 16, 2023

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Exactly one week until this shiny little beauty is published in paperback! Features the whole gang inc Irene Adler, Mrs Hudson, Mary Watson, Toby the dog.

Pre-order today and help me appease the algorithmic gods – or make headway on your Christmas shopping for the #SherlockHolmes fan in your life…

09:27 AM - Oct 10, 2023

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Each month I make a list of open calls for submissions for SFF/horror writers. Here’s a list of 16 venues for September, featuring crabs, Nirvana, cats and Poe: https://timjmajor.com/2023...

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Open submission calls for writers: September 2023 – Tim Major

It seems that editors have spent the summer months preparing their next projects! Here are 16 of the most interesting open submissions calls for writers I’ve found. And a reminder: sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open submission calls like these… Language EvolvesThis co..

09:21 AM - Sep 12, 2023

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Each month I make a list of the most interesting open calls for submissions for SFF/horror writers.

Here’s the list for August, featuring stories about microbes, escalators (!) and more: https://timjmajor.com/2023...

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Open submission calls for writers: August 2023 – Tim Major

No newsletter this month due to the usual summer-holiday chaos, but I was determined not to neglect my gathering of open submissions calls for writers… Do sign up for my email newsletter if you want advance notice of open submission calls in future! Microbes to the Rescue!This short story competitio..

11:46 AM - Aug 10, 2023

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Oh wow, how cute is this Japanese edition of my #SherlockHolmes novel The Defaced Men?

07:55 AM - Aug 10, 2023

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Each month I make a list of the best calls for submissions for SFF/horror writers – here’s this month's list, featuring some really amazing opportunities:

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Open submission calls: July 2023 – Tim Major

Here are the most interesting open submissions calls for SFF writers I’ve found this month – and there are some very exciting ones included. If you'd like advance notice of calls for submissions, sign up for my monthly email newsletter. Image from The Off-Season submissions page The Off-SeasonO..

05:50 AM - Jul 21, 2023

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An amazing three months for album releases! I’ve put together a blog post with no less than 24 recommendations ranging from wonky pop to drone to metal to modern classical to indie to WTF to field to techno.

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11:18 AM - Jul 04, 2023

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Here are ten of the most intriguing calls for submissions for SFF/horror writers this month, featuring automatons, watery fears, utopias, inverted tropes and classic monsters. Good luck!

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Open submission calls: June 2023 – Tim Major

Take a look at the most interesting open submissions calls for SFF writers I’ve found this month. Good luck if you have a go at any of these opportunities! Learning to Be HumanThis new anthology from established publisher of high-quality anthologies Flame Tree Press will focus on ‘the interplay betw..

09:10 AM - Jun 23, 2023

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I had a fun time recording an episode of the Tiny Bookcase podcast!

Me and hosts Ben & Nico read out & discuss short stories based on the prompt ‘The Horizon’. Mine features the mythical bronze giant Talos in a contemplative mood.

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03:41 AM - Jun 19, 2023

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My short story ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’ is now free to read on IZ Digital!

It’s about Elektro, the talking, walking, smoking robot at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. It’s quite sweet and sad.

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The Brazen Head of Westinghouse – IZ Digital

‘I loathe my voice. And that was the wrong thing to say. I do not want quiet. I want the owner of the voice to come to me and deliver me from the dark.’ // ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’, a story by Tim Major with art by Michael Whiteshoes

06:31 AM - Jun 16, 2023

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Here’s a blog post featuring the most interesting open submissions calls for SFF writers I’ve found this month. Good luck! #amwriting #WritingCommunity

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12:25 PM - Jun 04, 2023

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New fiction from me! ‘The Brazen Head of Westinghouse’ is about Elektro, the robot that was exhibited at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. It’s quite a sweet and sad little story, I think.

You can read it for free if you’re an Interzone subscriber or a member of IZ Digital.

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09:00 AM - May 23, 2023

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