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Especially good advice for fantasy writers.

(thx, Craphound!)

To celebrate the seventh anniversary of his blog, Neil Gaiman and HarperCollins have decided to release one of his books as a free download. Which one is up to you. Gaiman is conducting a vote on his blog. The winning book will be posted online for free by the publisher, who will also track sales following the download. If the experiment sparks sales, presumably HC will do the same with other titles.

Exciting!

Let’s get things rolling with a call for submissions from EDGE and Tesseract Books, leading Canadian publisher of science fiction and fantasy. What’s interesting here is the genres they’re looking for (italics mine).

“all the genres of imaginative literature, including but not limited to magic realism, science fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy, slipstream, supernatural horror, weird tales, alternate history, space opera, planetary adventure, surrealism, superheroes, mythic fantasy, etc.”

Highlights from the submission guidelines:

• The anthology is open to Canadians, landed immigrants, long-time residents, and expatriates.
• 10-20k words
• Email submissions only
• Deadline Feb 8, 2008 Feb 1, 2008 (they edited the page at some point after I reported this!)

Winners receive $200-300 (sliding scale) and publication in Tesseracts 12. Here’s a link to last year’s anthology, edited by one of my favorite sf authors and web celebrities, Cory Doctorow.