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crystalwizard
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  		   Posted 11/30/2007 10:49 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Come one! Come all!
Submit and to your... um, no, wait. Back up and let's try this again.

Announcing the greatest, the most stupendious, the most flabergastoulishious...
(Ack! Wait! Let me go!) (*sounds of something being dragged away*)

Ahem. We're sorry for that bit of unpleasantness. Where were we? Oh yes. I say, pull up a pen and start scribbling! Only weeks left until... (How long? It's on the calendar? Right, that went out with the rubbish this morning. *sigh* Can't get good help these days.)

Well never mind that, send us your stories... (What was that? Oh, be picky! *hrumph!*)

Fine. They want me to tell you the details.

What: Silly Fantasy Anthology
Word Count limit: 100 to 3000 words.
When: Submissions open December 1, 2007 and run till March 1, 2008
Where: Submit stories to SillyFantasy@gmail.com
How: RTF or Word Doc attachment, Type "SUB [Title]" in the subject line.
Who's behind this: Crystalwizard & ResAliens (Sponsoring Zine: Residential Aliens - http://residentialaliens.blogspot.com )
Payment: 1 copy of the anthology for free. (Contributing authors can get more copies for the cost of printing and shipping)

What do we mean by silly fantasy? You silly person, have you never watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Make us fall off the chair and roll around on the floor, laughing.
+ Target audience age: 14 and up
+ Keep it PG 13 or cleaner
+ Stories, bad puns and other sorts of silliness will be happily considered.
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  		   Posted 1/2/2008 5:32 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Will you consider reprint silliness?

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crystalwizard
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  		   Posted 1/6/2008 1:07 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
edward-mckeown said...
Will you consider reprint silliness?


Certainly :)
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Lyn
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  		   Posted 1/9/2008 12:08 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
We've accepted our first story and added our first author to the antho's TOC! (We'll tell you who soon!) - So things are starting to pick up steam, a number a new subs already in. But we need more! So dig around, dig it up, dust it off, or just make it up and submit your story before March 1st, but make sure it's funny and has us laughing out loud.

Lyn from ResAliens

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darkbow
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  		   Posted 1/9/2008 12:40 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'll be sending mine late tonight, soon as I get home from work.

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"Hot Off the Press" Ray Gun Revival #25, 2007.

"Deep in the Land of the Ice and Snow" upcoming in the Flashing Swords anthology, "The Return of the Sword: A New Age of Heroic Adventure."

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Hamstersbane
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  		   Posted 1/9/2008 12:51 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I was going to send one reprint...but realized it was too short. I may have another to submit before the deadline, though.

Jeff Parish
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Lyn
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  		   Posted 1/9/2008 12:17 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Jeff, go ahead and send in your reprint - nothing is too short if it's too funny!

Oh, and btw, CONGRATS to Jeff Parish on being the first to make the Silly Fantasy Antho's TOC - his story "A Royal Pain" is a fun and funny little romp around the castle. CW and I are looking forward to seeing it in print (and seeing a lot more subs from writers on this board!).

Lyn from ResAliens

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Hamstersbane
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  		   Posted 1/9/2008 1:21 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It's been sent.

Jeff Parish
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MichaelEhart
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  		   Posted 1/9/2008 10:25 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Okay, I sent you one. It ain't Shakespeare, but it is silly.

Buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore available Nov. 17th from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2007!
"The View From the Shotglass Floor" Ray Gun Revival, Feb 2007
"Voice of the Spoiler" The Sword Review, June 2007
"Servant of the Manthycore" The Sword Review, July 2007
"Darkling I Listen; and for Many a Time" Fear and Trembling, coming soon!
"Weaving Spiders Come Not Here" The Sword Review, August 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Summer 2007
"Nothing But Our Tears" The Sword Review, September 2007
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Fall 2007
"The Scarlet Colored Beast" The Sword Review, October 2007
"The Stars by Law, Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, November 2007
"Who Comes for the Mother's Fruit" Every Day Fiction, November 2007
"Stand, Stand, Shall They Cry" Flashing Swords, November 2007
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  		   Posted 1/15/2008 9:28 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm in. A reprint of "Azieran: Kaiburr the Rotund" (originally published in Blood, Blade, and Thruster #2) will be in the silly fantasy antho. Glad to be a part of it. Now everyone else be sure to submit and let's fill up this book with some hilarious tales!

Christopher M. Heath
 
"Azieran: Claimed by Birthright" in Return of the Sword
"Azieran: Oathbreaker's Promise" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: The Hollow Kings" in Flashing Swords
"Azieran: Adairos" in Tower of Light Fantasy
"Azieran: Savior in a Flask" in Magic and Mechanica by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Travelers Four" in Black Dragon, White Dragon by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
"Azieran: Creed of the Desert Kings" in Forgotten Worlds
 
+ others
 
 
 
 

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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 4:26 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Horribly late on the play, but this sounds like a lot of fun. I've been looking for inspiration, and this is very different from the usual for me. Submissions open until March 1, you say?

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Lyn
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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 11:14 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes, Corvus - and you can watch the TOC progress at this thread:
forum.sfreader.com/default~f~24~m~65058.html
Looking forward to seeing you join the fun.

BTW - CW & I have seen the light (it might have been a near-death experience) and we're going to open the antho to silly sci-fi as well. Watch for the announcement. And we'll soon have a "name the antho" contest to capture the essence of all this funny business.

Lyn from ResAliens

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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 1:10 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The only title I can think of right now might be just slightly in bad taste... It's "The Unicorn's Toiletside Companion" or "The Bug-Eyed-Monster's Hypertoilet-side Companion" depending on the final split between SF and Fantassy. I will try to think of something better for the contest!

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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 1:46 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
HUGE UPDATE # ∞ (or so it seems) eyes

CyberAliens has seen the light! And we froze like a Rigelian deer until - smack! - it hit us that our silly fantasy antho was just too dang limiting for all you great writers. You needed to express yourselves! You needed room to experiment! You needed space...Yeah, that's it, you needed...Space!

And so we give you the final frontier! (Think of it as a loan, really, since we're not sure who it belongs to.) The Silly Fantasy Antho has now officially opened it's doors to Silly Sci-Fi as well. Launch the freedom rockets! Open a bottle of Betelgeusian Champaign! And let the space race begin!

Continue to follow the guidelines at the top of this thread. And watch for TOC updates here. And sub sub sub!

(Note: This post has been cross-posted all over the place, so if it sounds familiar...) smilewinkgrin

Lyn from ResAliens

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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 2:06 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Gustavo said...
The only title I can think of right now might be just slightly in bad taste... It's "The Unicorn's Toiletside Companion"


I am NOT printing this thing on rolls of toilet paper! (unless I can find a cheap printer that'll do that)
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  		   Posted 1/17/2008 9:52 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well my inventory of silliness has not been exhausted, I rise to the challenge ;-)

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  		   Posted 1/21/2008 6:32 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The Silly Fantasy/Sci Fi Antho is getting more ridiculous by the minute. We’ve had some great subs so far, and now we’re opening the floodgates…

…and Announcing a “Finish this Limerick” Contest!

So what if you're stumped by submitting a super silly story! Who cares if you can't fabricate a funny flash fiction when facing a deadline? What does it matter if your hilarious humor has hit a horrible hurdle?! (Is anyone else aware of all the alliteration occurring?!)

Well, we have the solution! (And a lot of exclamation marks to use up!) CyberAliens (you see, Cyberwizard and ResAliens have teamed up...oh, we'll explain later) is soliciting silly limericks for inclusion in our upcoming antho.

All you have to do is finish what we've started (see opening lines below) or come up with your own! The best ones find a home in the antho to be published April 1 (no foolin’). Keep us in stitches. Keep us roaring in laughter. And keep it PG-13 or cleaner.

Want some ideas?

There was an old king on a throne
A flighty young fairy named Styxx
A crazy old wizard in black
A dragon did spy a young knight
The Prince and the Princess went out
A noble, who nobody liked
A fairy, a sprite and a flower
The castle it was quite a sight
There once was a pretty young thing
A knight on the back of a horse
A tourney to honor the king
A wizard in colorful robes
One day in the middle of May
Five pigs and a young dashing lad

Want some inspiration? Here’s a silly example; surely you can do better!
CyberAliens said...

A flighty young fairy named Styxx
Used magic to turn guys to chicks.
The dust was expired;
The magic backfired!
And left her in some kind of fix.


So send your best (multiples welcome) to sillyfantasy @ gmail . com and sub sub sub!!!
(Ah, finally, we're all out of exclamation marks.)

Lyn from ResAliens

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  		   Posted 1/21/2008 7:09 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
In a posting situation
re: use of exclamation,
you should always beware
they should be used with a care
Not the rule, but an exception!!!!

.....................

OK, I'm going to have a go at some fantasy SF ones.
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  		   Posted 1/21/2008 7:55 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
*grin* looking forward to seeing them, Matt.

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  		   Posted 1/22/2008 1:31 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
You might also consider reprinting some classic silliness with public domain rights and / or posting on Ralan to complete the ToC. I'm REALLY looking forward to reading this one (some of my favorite authors include Douglas Adams, Robert Asprin and Terry Pratchett, and I've read all the Xanth books, so it ought ot be right up my alley!!).

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  		   Posted 1/22/2008 1:35 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Doesn't it close in March? I mean, people are probably still writing. Wait for the deadline to pass and if you still need more stories put out another call...

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  		   Posted 1/22/2008 1:44 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
:: Psst Jordan, it's called creating buzz. Pass it on. lol ::

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  		   Posted 1/22/2008 4:47 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
K, sentcha a cream pie.  Open carefully, the spring is set to launch the pie when the lid opens.  :P
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  		   Posted 1/22/2008 4:52 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
WHY would you WARN them???

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  		   Posted 1/22/2008 5:14 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I dunno.  Guess I was in a sporting mood at the time.  Besides, I didn't tell them what ELSE was in the box UNDER the pie!  smilewinkgrin
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