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I'm finally getting brave enough to even consider shopping a story around but my struggle is figuring out which genre it is. How do I tell the difference between dark fantasy, supernatural horror, and every other subgenre that pops out of the Duotrope drop down search menu? I don't want to be that goober that sends my story to the wrong publisher. Posts: 207 | Registered: May 2011
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A Yeatts, the goobers are the ones who don't read the guidelines and send things the editor has clearly indicated no interest in (or actually even forbidden).
As long as you send a story that could be categorized as something an editor wants (some editors may call it "dark fantasy" while others may call it "supernatural horror"), you can send it to those editors. "Close" counts in horseshoes and in submissions, most of the time.
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Thanks so much! I can stop having nightmares about angry editors now. Makes more sense. And I have a lot of homework reading to do before sending anything!
You could try doing that reading at ralan.com or Duotrope's Digest duotrope.com.
I like the way things are listed better at ralan...its easier to find and to understand but evidently many here like the other one because you can check on how well they do at sending rejections and list your submissions somehow. Come to think of it I think ralan does the rejection thing too but I usually don't use it.
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