Wicked Words Quarterly Issue 3
Posted: December 16, 2014 Filed under: Wicked Words Quarterly | Tags: e-book, Fantasy, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Horror, Kindle, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Short Story, Wicked Words Quarterly Leave a commentAnother issue has now been published for Wicked Words Quarterly, this time there is a small Japanese-theme running through some of the stories which was absolutely accidental.
There were hundreds of Novellas offered for one space and I was wondering if there was call for an annual New Year Novella collection – though this would have to be purely profit share as all other backers have now removed themselves from the publishing and running of this publication and it is all down to me now.
Please let me know what you think.
Contributors for December 2014 are:
This is now available at Amazon UK and Amazon US in Kindle and paperback format.
Dennis Mombauer’s “Nowherian Funeral”Dennis, born 1984, grew up along the Rhine and today lives and works in Cologne. He writes short stories and novels in German and English and is co-publisher and editor of a German magazine for experimental fiction, “Die Novelle – Zeitschrift für Experimentelles” (http://dienovelle.blogspot.de/).
Samantha Lienhard’s “Rokurokubi”
Samantha has wanted to be an author her entire life, and is currently pursuing her MFA in Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction program. Her past publications include a horror serial called Sacreya’s legacy, a horror/comedy novella called The Accidental Zombie, a Lovecraftian serial called The Book at Dernier, and numerous pieces of flash fiction. Samantha is an affiliate member of the HWA and her website is http://www.samanthalienhard.com/
Conor Power-Smith’s “Harry’s Homework”
Conor Powers-Smith grew up in New Jersey and Ireland. He currently lives on Cape Cod, where he works as a reporter.
Gerri Leen’s “Fox Fire”
Gerri Leen lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. She has a collection of short stories, Life Without Crows, out from Hadley Rille Books, and stories and poems published or accepted in such places as: Escape Pod, Ares Magazine, Sword and Sorceress XXIII, Spinetinglers, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror and Dia de los Muertos. See more at http://www.gerrileen.com.
Gary Girod’s “Malvore”
Gary Girod has previously been published in Tales of Old, Mystic Signals, fiction365.com and the Wi-Files among others. His novella ‘The Last Pet Shop in Belfast’ is available on Amazon Kindle.
Charles Gramlich’s “Long Dead Woman in a Black Dress”
Some of Charles’ stories have been published in anthologies like Dark Terrors and Dark Voices IV, as well as in a variety of both print and online magazines such as Dead of Night and Beat to a Pulp. Many of his published horror tales were collected in an anthology called In the Language of Scorpions. Charles is an active member of the Horror Writers Association.
Pam Phillips’ “The Undying Pen”
Pam Phillips has been making up stories since she was a little girl pretending her fingers wielded poisonous stingers. Now she plays amateur naturalist learning about the bees in her garden. The bees hardly ever wield their poisonous stingers.
You can find more stories at www.pamphillips.net.
Wicked Words Issue 2
Posted: August 10, 2014 Filed under: Short Story, Wicked Words Quarterly | Tags: e-book, Fantasy, Flash Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Story, Wicked Words Quarterly, Writing Leave a commentIt’s done!

Clockwork
This reading for this issue took much longer than the previous issue, this was due to two main factors; I was finishing off my Open University degree and had to write a 4500 word essay concerning 15th century Flemish Altarpieces and the other factor was the amount of submissions, well over 250 this time.
A lot of strong stories which made it even harder to choose which to include, but the ones I have included are:
- The Sled by Edward McDermott
- Closing Schrödinger’s Box by Michael W. Lucht
- 6/13 by Luke Walker
- The Corruption of Rome by Nick Nafpilotis
- The Spume Horse by Bo Balder
- Pit Stop by S. Kay Nash
- The Duke’s Fountain by Hugh O’Donnell
- My Four Foundling Fathers by Michael Andre-Driussi
- Red Zoo by Paul McMahon
- Whatever It Takes by Wendy Hammer
- Like Father by Justin Koch
- The Watchmaker by Todd Scott Moffet
A few weeks of formatting and editing ahead to get it ready to publish in September and then continue reading the stories already submitted for the December issue, there are already approximately seventy submissions, a large majority of which are Novella-sized.
Halloween special?
Posted: May 15, 2014 Filed under: Wicked Words Quarterly | Tags: e-book, Erotica, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Specials, Submissions, Wicked Words Quarterly Leave a commentWas wondering what the thoughts would be on an extra issue for Halloween – horror, ghost stories, frights of 2500 words or less?
This could then become one of the regular extra issues focusing on specific genres?
Maybe also have a Space Opera special issue on April 6th to mark the passing of Isaac Asimov?
But one of the biggest possible changes to genres accepted would be a romance/erotica special issue for St. Valentine’s day.
These are all the extras I could think of at the moment but please contact me with ideas 🙂
June comes early
Posted: May 12, 2014 Filed under: Wicked Words Quarterly | Tags: e-book, Fantasy, Flash Fiction, Horror, Kindle, Science Fiction, Short Story, Wicked Words Quarterly Leave a comment I had a few days free last week to concentrate on formatting and putting together the first issue of Wicked Words Quarterly and lo and behold I was able to get my Kindle Direct Publishing account set up and the first issue published.It can be found on Amazon – Wicked Words Quarterly – Issue 1 June 2014
Now to concentrate on reading the next 100 submissions for the September Issue and start in on the novellas that have been submitted for the December Issue.
This has been much more of a success than I initially thought it would be and that is thanks to the number and quality of submissions I’ve received.
Thanks for all of them and I look forward to reading more from all of you.
Wicked Words Issue 1
Posted: May 4, 2014 Filed under: Wicked Words Quarterly | Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Short Story, Wicked Words Quarterly, Writing Leave a commentAll the stories for the first edition of Wicked Words Quarterly have now been chosen and I’m in the process of editing and formatting for publication. It still seems to be on track for the 1st of June 2014.
The contributors for the first edition are:
- Nicole Tanquary’s “In a Tower”
- Logan Merriweather’s “Pipe Monster”
- Jason D’Aprile’s “Odin Waits”
- DJ Cockburn’s “Spookmoth”
- Deborah Bailey’s “Stranger Has Disconnected”
- Robin Wyatt Dunn’s “The City of the Wren”
- Phyllis Green’s “The Diary of Margreth Frogonne”
- Terri Cross Chetwood’s “Diamondback”
- Adam Gaylord’s “Mac the Repairman”
- Mai-Chi Pham’s “Dinner Time”
- Matthew Barbour’s “The Flicker of Farolitos”
- J.J. Steinfeld’s “The Old Neighbourhoods of Mars”
- Maggie Denton’s “2007 OR-10”
- Tony Peak’s “Dare to Sleep”
The final count of submissions was 242 and this is what made most of the choosing difficult as there were so many good stories to read and it was a great privilege to do so.
Hopefully you will enjoy these stories when they are released in less than a months time as much as I’ve enjoyed compiling them.
Less than a month left…
Posted: March 19, 2014 Filed under: Thoughts, Wicked Words Quarterly | Tags: Submissions, Thoughts, Wicked Words Quarterly, Writing Leave a commentThe deadline for submissions to the first issue of Wicked Words Quarterly closes on April 1st 2014, so if you haven’t yet submitted anything for me to consider get it in soon 🙂
I’ve been really pleased with both the quality and quantity of submissions, 140 submissions of great writing across all the genres that were asked for. This makes it really difficult to choose which seven or so stories to include out of that great selection.
I do try to make the rejections personal but with so many submissions that can be hard at times, so please don’t be disappointed with what has been written as I have enjoyed reading all the stories.
Hopefully I will be able to sort out more emails this week, and if you have received a rejection and have other work to submit please do.
Again thanks for the enthusiasm and quality of the writing that you’ve all submitted, looking forward to publishing in June and seeing what people think of my selections.