At long last, Elephant’s Bookshelf Press is launching a new
anthology effort!
So, what is the genre? Science
fiction.
In a sense, it’s a way for me to go back to my beginnings,
because when I started writing, my primary focus was on science fiction.
The best EBP anthologies to date have all had an overarching
theme, and I think we have something unique and interesting to shoot for in
this anthology.
The unifying theme of these short stories will be Flight.
One of the reasons I like this theme is because it’s a term
that has multiple meanings and therefore multiple interpretations. Of course,
flight can involve human or alien spaceships, heroes with super-human
abilities, winged creatures, but it just as easily could include flight from
danger. Heck, I bet there’s a clever person out there who can make a flight of
stairs into a vital element of a science fiction story.
I don’t want to be too restrictive in this description. The
story should incorporate flight; I leave the details to you.
For our anthology,
the stories can be up to 5,000 words long. No erotica.
The submission deadline
is January 15. There is no payment, though the published authors will receive
both a paperback and electronic edition of the completed anthology.
(This will likely be
the first EBP paperback since the demise of CreateSpace, but I’ve been told
that this process will be as straight forward as what we had grown accustomed
to.)
An early spring
publication is my target.
Our team will review the stories as they come in.
Feel free to ask any questions. Send them to
matt@elephantsbookshelfpress.com, and I’ll reply as soon as I can.
