Start Thinking “Issue 2”

For those of you who are writing types, I’m finally clearing some time and brainspace for publishing Issue 2 of StoryHack Action & Adventure. I’ll update the submissions page, but I wanted to give the blog-following-faithful a heads up first.

I’ve been lucky to get a good variety of genres as submissions, and I’d like to do a include a couple more. For instance:

A treasure/artifact/McGuffin hunt. Think Indiana Jones or National Treasure.
A solid espionage story. I’m not a huge fan of Deus Ex Machina style gadgets or Mission Impossible-style masks.

Also, I just don’t get enough submissions of modern thrillers or urban fantasy. Not nearly enough.

I’ll still publish sword & sorcery, because I love it, but there are now several places to publish that, so don’t expect to see more than one per issue. Cell Phones & Sorcery, as I mentioned, would be a go.

And I go back and forth on this, but I think I’m back into liking the longer stories (9-12K word) again. I’d even consider a novella here and there.