I've whored this out all over the place, so I thought maybe I should keep my whoring to one specific thread.
Our domain finally got fixed, so we're now at parablepressmag.com.
We have a fiction editor (Mess_Jess), an assistant fiction editor (Meredith183), a poetry editor (Heather Foster, sent to me by the lovely Richard Thomas, who will be featured and hopefully reviewed in the next issue), and a non-fiction editor (Lisa Luton). We're currently looking for an assistant poetry editor and an editor and assistant editor for mixed media as well.
Matt (Attack) will also have a column soon, which will be fucking fantastic. Columns are a special favorite of mine, so query for those, too.
We're also currently seeking fiction and creative non-fiction submissions, so please feel free to send us your work! Our Submittable is finally bug-free as well.
"Matt (Attack) will also have a column soon"
About what?
I've thought of this doing this too. The whoring in one place, I mean. All this treading from thread to thread to whore myself is eating at my stilettos .
At some point, when I have something else that I think would work for you guys, I'd like to see another of my stories at Parable. I liked the layout a lot.
I'm curious what a Matt Attack column will look like as well.
We'll pick a theme every month like violence or heartbreak or something and then I'll write two or three short stories about the topic. Nothing quite that general, but you get the idea. At some point we might do serialized fiction as well, which will be really cool, methinks. I'm really excited!
And, Matt, Three Steps was AH-Mazing. I absolutely loved it. Good stuff. Thoughtful, excellent prose, flawless. All of it. Just wanted to tell you.
Yes, Three Steps was great. As well as yours, Matt. Too many damn Matts around here. lol
Really well done, Courtney. The site is clean and beautiful. I'm excited for Parable Press.
Courtney-- everything seems to be looking fantastic over there, kudos!
Thanks guys.
@Moony, yours is always good. Loved it. Thanks though!
The robin egg light blue color for the links is obscenely hard to read against the white background on the site. Otherwise site looks damn nice. All fiction by Matts. Might want to add a clickable link in this thread for passersby.
I had no idea the links were so light-colored, fuck. Thank you, Ren. My screen is calibrated darker than most laptops to adjust for my burning eyeballs, so I thought the color was a lot darker.
I love all of you.
Since Matt and I have readjusted the idea of what the column will look like, I'm not sure yet. As of now, we're also discussing the idea of a fictional town being serialized. I'm also talking with the other Matt (Sound) about a column, and with R. Moon, my work-husband.
Keep submitting!!
You can meet the people of Kimberlyn, North Carolina soon. Who killed Wilfred Ralston? Who's selling meth? What the hell was that in city park the other day? The mothman?
Find out soon ya weirdos.
That's such a fuckin cool idea.
^ Agreed I love the idea of a fictional town serialization. The possibilities are endless :)
Well, at least once we're going to open up those possibilities to you guys and have you pick the theme for the month. Start thinking now and like us on FB and Twitter! Both my page and PP.
Looks really sexy. And several of my favorite LR folks are involved! Exciting. Look forward to seeing what you guys do, and I'll defnitely send you some work just as soon as I actually return from working on the novel to the world of the living.
Serialize!
My friend and I are working on a serial fiction project, in a fictional town, it's going to be a long ways away. In the meantime, I'll just read Parable Press.
I will also be writing a serial column. I'll be doing a recurring character. And, if Court likes my idea, it'll be a character that those of who've read my work will know. Looking forward to starting this.
Hell yeah, Mooney making it happen.
Hey, good luck guys. I can see you're all working together hard and super excited about this project, and that is pretty awesome to see. I wish you the best and will figure out how to set bookmarks on my computer.
^ Thanks Sean. Checked out Horrornews. Haven't seen any of your reviews, though. Any up yet? That was you that said you're working there, right? I am curious about the Guinea Pig movies. Not sure I could watch them, but curious nonetheless.
Yes, my wonderful work-husband will be writing a recurring column about one of my favorite characters!
And yeah, this site is super fucking awesome and everyone from LitReactor should be really excited about it because we love you guys, especially considering Mess_Jess is fiction editor, Meredith183 is assistant fiction editor, and jacks_username is art/mixed media editor.
And Sound, Matt, and Ryan are all writing columns. So, yeah. We love you.
OH! Allow me to steal Sean's thunder... HERE is his first review on horrornews, Rian.
I'll have a serialized column as well. Mostly stories of the "Three Steps" and "Mariquitas" variety. Got a few ideas of where I'll be taking this and I gotta say, I'm pretty excited.
Sweet! Thanks Jessica! :-)
haha, thanks Jessica...
@ R Moon: yeah, I just started, so I only have that one review so far. But I do have three more movies that I just got assigned to, so my list will be growing soon!
As far as those Guinea Pig films go, they are pretty messed up, but now look a little dated. I actually own them (they were a gift, I had never seen them before and a friend was selling all his movies). They are fun though.
And thanks for asking about that, I really appreciate it.
It’s worth a viewing, but don’t go in expecting anything life-changing.
- LOL! That's awesome! I gotta say, I wasn't sure what I was looking at in the first and last picture. Sounds like a horror equivalent of an Ed Wood movie. Something so bad it's good. Great review, Sean. Keep us posted when you write more. I'll be on the watch.
@Jessica: Read your article over at SYW. Slightly disturbing, but entertaining nonetheless. Great job!
It's awesome to see so many of us expanding and working so hard. Really proud to be a part of the LR family.
I'll have a serialized column as well."
Saaaaaaweet.
Looks bad-ass. Would love to submit!
I love the response from you guys. It may be the Vicodin*, but my eyes are a little teary.
*Totally legit, got prescribed them today after a car wreck, no druggie jokes. <3
Wow! This is so cool. Courtney what kinds of stories do you want around all the columns? I'm excited to see the first publication.
Courtney, that sucks about your accident! Sorry to hear about it.
Guys, as Courtney said, I'm the Fiction Editor, and Meredith is the Assistant Fiction Editor. We would love to see some of your brilliant WAR stories in our slush pile. Our submission guidelines can be found here: http://parablepressmag.com/submissions/. Essentially, SMF and submit via Submittable. Easy, yes?
If you want to know what we're after, here's an excerpt from the "About" section:
Give us your distraught, your divine, your delicately stable stories of what it is that makes you human. No sci-fi, slipstream, or fantasy, please; we’re looking for stories situated in the reality we inhabit today. Genre stories are welcome, but stay in our world; if you were Stephen King, you’d submit Misery, not The Green Mile.
Also, you can have a look at the stories published in Issue One, for a better idea: http://parablepressmag.com/issue-one-archive/
There's already one issue!! It's just a small, sampler-sized issue, though, featuring four stories, two sets of poetry, and a collection of photography. The second issue, though, looks amazing.
We're looking for anything situated in the current reality -- transgressive, literary, horror, whatever, as long as it doesn't involve magic creatures or crazy spaceships. Matt wrote a piece for our first issue that came out of WAR, and it was near-future apocalyptic, which fit into our mission.
Our tagline is "Give us your distraught, your divine, your delicately stable stories of what it is that makes you human."
God, I love you, Jessica. You do whoring much better than me.
Also, the wreck is much less scary than it sounds, but damn if my ankle doesn't hurt.
You do whoring much better than me.
Never thought that'd be used as a compliment. haha
I'm not one to turn down a compliment, particularly about whoring. Lawyering and prostitution, two of the oldest professions. I prefer to call it all "soliciting".
God, I love you, Jessica. You do whoring much better than me.
Years of practice, Courtney. ;)
I'm so excited to make my debut in Parable Press next month! Thanks, Jess, Meredith, and Courtney, for popping my publishing cherry!
xo
Congrats Emma!
Awesome, Em--congrats! This is your first? I would've guessed you were Jezabel of publishing by now. At least you should be.
Congrats, Emme! Parable Press has a lovely asthetic, ladies. Well done.
Congrats Emma, I suppose this is as good of time as any to announce that I too am having my cherry popped by Parable Press. I’m honored to have my flash fiction piece “Rocked” published by the lovely gang over there and thrilled to be printed in the same venue as the wonderful and talented Emma Clark.
Congrats Jonathan. I'm looking forward to seeing it for the first time at Parable.
Congrats to both of you. Looking forward to reading your work. All these cherries getting popped. Court's been putting in work. ;-) To whore myself a bit here, I'll be writing a bi-weekly serial column each month. As it looks now, the first chapter should be going live on the 1st.
I <3 Parable Press too much. They've taken on one of mine as well (my first!).
Thanks Courtney and gang!
Congrats to everyone contributing, especially the newly published. Looking forward to reading the next issue.
Woo, congrats Dufrescm.
Ryan, can't wait for that either. Lot of good stuff happening there.
Congrats, everyone.
Congrats and appreciation, all around!
Dino: I am a highly accomplished Clarkesworld rejectee. When your first submission is to The New Yorker, you're in for a long wait. Way Station is in the hands of Tor, which will give me an answer by 2014. My favourite markets don't reprint unsolicited so I'm aiming high out of the gate. Also, suck it Shotgunhoney!
Tor just rejected a story of mine yesterday as a matter of fact, and it took them exactly three months to do it. Way Station was beautiful, so they'd better take it by the summer at least. Actually, been thinking lately of writing something new for Shotgunhoney. Sorry if they let you down. I'm submitting something by Tuesday to Parable, so wish me luck!
