Storytime Blog Hop April 2016 Open Call Authors of Speculative Fiction
Storytime Blog Hop
Founded 2015 by students of writer and teacher Holly Lisle.
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(The hop schedule follows this pattern: The 4th Wednesday of the month, January, April, July, and October. Story links due by the 20th of that month.)
Storytime Blog Hop Open Call
Calling Specutalive Fiction Authors: Our host this month has opened the blog hop to authors outside the Holly Lisle forums. Write your story according to the rules below. Post it on your site and send the LINK to KLynn email down below, by the 20th of April.
The 2nd Story Time Blog Hop of 2016 is on April 27th. Links are due on the 20th.
The rules are:
Short story/flash fiction up 1000 words
(PG rated–no violence, erotica or foul language)
Genre: General Speculative Fiction
Use the blog hop image (above) to announce the hop on your own site and social media.
SEND your links TO me (KLynn) at karen@reprobatetypewriter.com or PM me on Holly’s site with link to your story.
And, of course, we’re grateful for all the publicity we can get.
You can check out our previous hops here
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A note to those doing the A-Z Blogging Challenge for April. This goes live on the 27th which is a Wednesday. I think that is the Letter W for the challenge that day. Those doing short stories could always do a double whammy with one post, lol, just a thought….
Another note inspired by a comment: Definition of Speculative Fiction
Speculative fiction is a term, attributed to Robert Heinlein in 1941, that has come to be used to collectively describe works in the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
Thank you so much for posting this! I’m looking forward to a nice turn out this time around.
I’ll be in again 🙂 I haven’t written a short story since the last one! I really need to write something again – I’ve just been editing..
Yeah, I’m gonna try too. I’m doing NaNo too, so hopefully I will get a finished story in time with writing and editing, either way, I will be posting the hop.
Sounds great! You’re making me wish I wrote speculative fiction!
You do, You write about magic that is general speculative fiction.
You would be very welcomed. We will be doing it again in July for Speculative Fiction so keep us in mind.
If I wasn’t in the middle of the Challenge, I’d consider the one for speculative authors.