BREAKING NEWS
Aspen Mountain
Press is thrilled to announce the launch of our new speculative fiction
imprint Aura Speculative Fiction. Aura will open for submissions on July
1, 2011!
Aura intends to be the Great Read source for speculative
fiction. We will happily snap up your dark visions of fantastic genius
and stellar spires of art...on one condition: We must believe it will
delight someone who is tired, had a rough day at work, and who hungers
for a fun, memorable read. Why?
Because, frankly, we suspect most of our readers are
tired, had rough days, and are so hungry for a great read they're
starving-- for all the flavors of speculative fiction, from
creep-you-out horror, to Neo-Silver-Age, to the most mecha-mad Steampunk
rhapsodies. Fun. Fast. Adventurous.
We are interested in new material and debut authors: we
dream you will send us novels, novellas, and short stories to satisfy
this generation, and get the incoming YA generation hooked on SF. If you
are a pro with a backlist, and you own your rights, we are also very
interested in both new works and reprints. Aura can serve as a happy
medium between finding an Old Media Publisher, and self-publishing. We
provide a way of keeping your writing available, generating interest
and income. Your works will get new artwork, new proofing and editing
(if you wish) and get to an audience of new spec fic fans. Why do all
the work yourself when we will do it for you?
We are actively seeking: science fiction, both hard and
soft; fantasy, from epic to urban and in between; horror, all types;
Steampunk; cyberpunk; dystopian stories and anything else that falls
beneath the wide SF umbrella.
What we are NOT seeking: SF erotica. Romantic subplots are fine, but cannot comprise the majority of the storyline.
We are accepting stories of all lengths—from short
stories for the Aura Flash line ( up to 20K words) to epics of 100k. We
will accept stories that are above the upper limit if the story is
sufficiently well-developed to justify the pages. Stand-alone stories
and serial stories alike are equally welcome.
Send all submissions to aurasubmissions(AT)auraspecfic(DOT)com,
following the Aura submission guidelines. And keep an eye out for
our website, blog and social networking sites - all coming to you in October 2011!
