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Uchronia: Alternate Histories & Alternate Worlds
Pride Book Café (Pride Book Cafe)




Description
Hex Gunslinger is an upcoming anthology of speculative, mysterious, and romantic weird western tall tales! Framed as an unearthed secret library years after the civil war, each story should hold the ethos of western expansion beginning in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase, and ending around the 1850s not necessarily restricted to a North American audience. Do not take manifest destiny as a mantra to live by. Shape a world with all the magic and mystery of the frontier without letting the ugliness of conquest be consumed with fantastic whimsy. We want wide open plains where violence ruled, underground movements brewing with tension, and the Wild Wild West in all it’s beauty and madness. Bring us your stories marking the age of the gold rush, injustice, genocide, mass immigration, transcontinental railroads, vigilante justice, telegraphs, outlaws, gunslingers, slick talkers, setting suns, and the impending civil war that would rip a nation apart.


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Market Genres
Genres
Alternate History
Fantasy
Romance
Science Fiction
Western

Market Types, Lengths & Pay Scale
Originals
Short Story
1000 to 7500 words
1 cent/word

Novelette
7500 to 17500 words
1 cent/word

Novella
17500 to 40000 words
1 cent/word



Market Submission Types
AI Submissions?: Unknown Policy
Electronic Submissions?: Yes
Postal Submissions?: No
Multiple Submissions?: No
Simultaneous Submissions?: No
Translations: Original Language Only
Estimated Response: 60 days

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Listing added: 10 January 2018


Last officially checked: 8 July 2021


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