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I have written a ... thing. Currently working on revising it so that it works better, but it is effectively done. I wasn't planning on "doing something" with it, entirely, but enough people have asked me that I'm now sort of staring at it in a "If I wanted to submit you somewhere, where would you go?" kind of way.
It's not suitable to the standard SF/F markets, I think, because I'm pretty sure it's only SF/F by my standards, and my standards weren't aware that there was anything other than SF/F until I was in my teens, because it was all strange people in odd situations to me. (As you might imagine, this gives me tremendous rupture problems in any conversation in which a distinction between genre and non-genre is particularly significant.)
What it is is ... guh. An archetype-exploration of a particular variant of a particular type of hero's journey with extensive symbolism largely drawn from Celtic myth. 4500 words, ish.
In second person future.
I'm pretty sure that it's only actually suitable to some kind of literary publication, even without taking into account the fact that it's second person future. It has other subtextual stuff -- it's as much a religious and sexual exploration as anything else -- but it's written in such a way that that is likely only clearly apparent to a tiny fraction of even people I know, and thus subcultural publications appropriate to the subtexts would likely treat the thing with a generalised, "Buh?"
I found Duotrope searching the web for literary fiction markets; does anyone have any better ideas for what to do with the damn thing if I decide I do want to submit it somewhere other than go through the plausible places there (and on other similar sites) and check submission guidelines for things that look worth exploring?
Does anyone know of a publication that really, really needs to read 4500 words of second person future instruction in the nature of the sacred mysteries of achieving rulership?
It's not suitable to the standard SF/F markets, I think, because I'm pretty sure it's only SF/F by my standards, and my standards weren't aware that there was anything other than SF/F until I was in my teens, because it was all strange people in odd situations to me. (As you might imagine, this gives me tremendous rupture problems in any conversation in which a distinction between genre and non-genre is particularly significant.)
What it is is ... guh. An archetype-exploration of a particular variant of a particular type of hero's journey with extensive symbolism largely drawn from Celtic myth. 4500 words, ish.
In second person future.
I'm pretty sure that it's only actually suitable to some kind of literary publication, even without taking into account the fact that it's second person future. It has other subtextual stuff -- it's as much a religious and sexual exploration as anything else -- but it's written in such a way that that is likely only clearly apparent to a tiny fraction of even people I know, and thus subcultural publications appropriate to the subtexts would likely treat the thing with a generalised, "Buh?"
I found Duotrope searching the web for literary fiction markets; does anyone have any better ideas for what to do with the damn thing if I decide I do want to submit it somewhere other than go through the plausible places there (and on other similar sites) and check submission guidelines for things that look worth exploring?
Does anyone know of a publication that really, really needs to read 4500 words of second person future instruction in the nature of the sacred mysteries of achieving rulership?
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