Daniel J. Hogan's Blog

A friend hipped me to this fiction magazine, Shimmer, who is looking for submissions for their next issue (they publish quarterly). The theme for their next issue is "Clockwork Jungle Book" - in other words, steampunk fables (with animal characters, like Aesop's Fables).

This sounds right up my alley. Most of the characters in The Magic of Eyri are animals, so I'm use to writing that and parts of the book touch on steam punk themes (mostly when it comes to some of the vehicles and technology in Eyri - such as the airships, which is a steam punk staple.). This wouldn't be too much of a stretch for me. The deadline is February and the word count is 3,500 words.

I'm goin' for it. Now I just have to think of an idea or (as they suggest) re-imagine an existing fable. Steampunk is one of my favorite genres and I love a challenge. I'll probably get a nice rejection letter, but that's OK - I need to beef up my collection. This is the stuff I need to be doing: submitting to magazines and such.

In other news: I'm signing copies of The Magic of Eyri at Barnes & Noble today (in Grosse Pointe, MI). Not an official signing, I'm just going in and signing what they have in stock (as mentioned here and here).