Places to shop dark fiction (horror, fantasy, SF, noir)

[Ben Staad]

Thought I would share here.

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[Ben Staad]

Old thread but saw this place will have open submissions early next year.

https://cosmichorrormonthly.com/submissions/

[Ben Staad]

I stock it for hurricane supplies and probably eat some 1-2/year. It's not bad but certainly nothing I consider comfort food.

There is a local trend of serving spam musubi at the food trucks. I hadn't tried any of that yet. Sounds like a double whammy of salt and funky flavor.

I honestly did not know that there was so many different varieties of SPAM (chorizo SPAM?!) until recently. I mean, I've always liked SPAM as an occasional novelty food (fried SPAM sandwiches are so good), but never as a staple. I've been trying to eat a lot healthier this year, so SPAM really isn't the healthiest food option. That maple SPAM sounds like it'd be great, though.

 

[Sock Monkey]

Anyone try that maple SPAM? I bought two tins of it and added it to my hurricane supplies.



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I honestly did not know that there was so many different varieties of SPAM (chorizo SPAM?!) until recently. I mean, I've always liked SPAM as an occasional novelty food (fried SPAM sandwiches are so good), but never as a staple. I've been trying to eat a lot healthier this year, so SPAM really isn't the healthiest food option. That maple SPAM sounds like it'd be great, though.

[Ben Staad]

Anyone try that maple SPAM? I bought two tins of it and added it to my hurricane supplies.

SPAM

 

[Alvin Moore]

SPAM

[JJ123]

MLouisDixon:

Sorry I'm just replying now. I actually have done Zoetrope, but haven't been on that site in ages. Perhaps I should go back, thanks for the suggestion. I also tried to connect with film students there, but had no success. Triggerstreet is another place to try, I'm part of that, too, but alas, networking success eluded me there, as well.

[JJ123]

Richard Thomas:

My apologies for not replying to you on a more timely basis. Thanks for your input, I appreciate it. You bring up an excellent point: why self-publish? I think I will take your advice and try a little harder (thanks for the tip on that agent site).

However, I'll say this: I'm starting to think that maybe, for me, self-publishing is the only way to give my work even a fighting chance in the marketplace. I've had too many rejections over the years and I figure something about my approach must change. I'm trying to start a new YA series and it is very, very difficult to interest the powers that be.

[Randy D. Rubin]

How write you are, my friend. Thanks for the schoolin'.

[RichardThomas]

Do you think Jim Butcher's "Wizard for Hire" series falls in to this noir genre?

it's a mix of fantasy and noir, but sure...I mean, Stephen King's Dark Tower series was a mix of just about everything

[Randy D. Rubin]

Do you think Jim Butcher's "Wizard for Hire" series falls in to this noir genre?

[RichardThomas]

sure, and that's probably another difference between noir, or classic noir, and neo-noir - good point, dan

[Dan Hocker]

I also think a lot of time Noir is also associated with a 50's era setting, even though that 50's era setting is not a requirement.

[RichardThomas]

you could really group crime, thrillers, mystery, noir, neo-noir, hardboiled in the same group - the main different I SEE between neo-noir and many of the other detective related or mystery related stories is that you don't have to have the same formula: detective or cop with a crime or problem to solve, woman in danger, femme fatale, thugs, etc. - it can be anything - for me it's a lot about mood and tone, the setting and what you focus on, how the mindset of your protagonist works, and some feel that neo-noir has to be tragic, no happy endings - many feel that these are "losers" in the sense that they lose a lot, have fractured lives, and are falling apart in some way

i'd say neo-noir could be Blade Runner, Memento, Inception, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Fight Club, Seven, etc.

[Randy D. Rubin]

Thanks richard, I think I may have several dark stories of that nature.