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Futurismic re-opens to fiction submissions!

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Yes indeed – you enquired, cajoled and begged, and the day has finally arrived – Futurismic is open to fiction submissions once again!

Chris East, our hard-working Fiction Editor, is a busy man – and with the submissions coming in he’s going to be even more busy than usual. So please be considerate: read the entirety of the Guidelines page thoroughly – twice – and check your story is a good fit before clicking through to the submissions webform (linked from the Guidelines page).

That way you save Chris time and save yourself from a rejection you didn’t need to get, right? Right!

Also, a few words on file formatting. Three words, actually, or rather two words and an acronym:

RTF files only!

The webform shouldn’t let you upload anything else; if you manage to subvert the process, your submission will just be deleted anyway, so just convert in your favourite word processor package first.

And finally – we will ONLY accept fiction submissions through the webform. All attempted submissions by regular email, comment fields, Twitter, psychic projection, good old-fashioned snail-mail or any other channels WILL BE IGNORED AND DELETED/DESTROYED UNREAD AND UNREPLIED TO.

OK, with all that out of the way, get to work! Do you think you can beat Leonard Richardson‘s 37-deep comments thread? Because that’s the caliber of work we’re looking for – and we’re looking forward to your submissions!

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Advertise with Futurismic

Much as we’d like to be able to run Futurismic as a completely ad-free site, that’s not something we can do if we want to pay the authors of our fiction pieces and keep the servers running.

But the last thing we wanted to do was throw loads of crappy AdSense ads at you; we wanted some control over who can advertise here and what they can sell in the process.

So, if you look in the sidebar, you’ll see we have ad spaces being run by Project Wonderful. Originally a network devoted to webcomics, PW has branched out into a user-friendly ad market for all sorts of sites.

It’s very important to us that you, Futurismic‘s readers, don’t find anything we run on the site offensive or intrusive. So please, if you see an ad that you feel is inappropriate, please contact us and let us know right away!

And don’t forget that you can always click straight through to Project Wonderful and rent some Futurismic real-estate yourselves! 🙂

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Futurismic gets a face-lift!

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I figured it was high time Futurismic got re-themed, and here are the results – RSS readers, click on through and take a look!

I got the theme developed by running a design contest at SitePoint – there are some really smart designers and coders over there, and I was presented so many great layouts that I wished I could have had them all!

But that wasn’t an option, and this theme by Bart Suykerbuyk edged ahead of the others by hitting just the right notes of look and feel. The runner-up from Muhammad Alfian Ahmad was also great in a very different way – it was a hard choice to make.

So here it is – have a poke around, an feel free to leave admiring comments below, but also please let us know if you find any bugs, glitches or problems of other types. I’d especially like feedback from Futurismic readers using the more obscure browser types.

Enjoy!

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Get Your Futurismic Stories Ready

As Paul recently announced, Futurismic fiction is making a comeback soon. After long hiatus, this March will see the return of monthly short stories here at the site!

I’m sure there are plenty of hungry science fiction writers out there curious about whether we’re going to be reading again soon. We do still have some stories in stock, but also intend to start looking for new material come April 1st. (And that’s no prank!)

If you’re interested in submitting, please review our guidelines, and if you really want to get on my good side, this essay I wrote a while back, to get an idea of the kind of stuff we’d like to see. I think they’re pretty self explanatory documents, but you’d be amazed how many off-target submissions we receive. Save yourself, and us, some time by reading the guidelines!

Again, we’re not open yet–but we will be soon. So get those new stories ready; we look forward to seeing your work!

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Fiction returns to Futurismic in March!

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Yes indeed – we’ve been promising it for ages, and now we’re going to make good on that promise.

Futurismic will start publishing fiction again in March 2008!

Monday 3rd March, to be precise – and on the first weekday of each month after that, as well. Between now and then there will be a few other changes taking place, and after the fiction you’ll see the return of our non-fiction columns as well.

Those of you reading now who’ve stuck with us through the last year or so without fiction, you have my sincere gratitude – we’re going to make sure that Futurismic comes back as good as before, if not better.

Those of you who’ve started reading relatively recently, I hope you’ll find that Futurismic‘s fiction output gives you more reason to come back regularly. We pick stories that match the sort of content we blog about – so if you find the daily topics interesting, there’s good odds you’ll enjoy the fiction too.

There will be more news and more developments to come in the next few weeks; as the new editor-in-chief here at Futurismic, I’m really excited about the prospects ahead of us, and I hope you will be as well.

Stick around – it’s going to be a great trip. 🙂