Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic - Anthology Guidelines

[catherineldf]

Crossposted from the Drollerie Press website. This will be the first anthology for Flyleaf, the new LGBTQ imprint of Drollerie Press.

Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic
edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff

We’re looking for stories about lesbian-identified sorceresses, witches, magicians and magic users of all kinds. Lesbian and trans protagonists are welcome. All stories must include a woman who identifies as a lesbian and who uses magic. The definition of magic is open to interpretation-surprise us, dazzle us, make us believe in all different kinds of magic all over again!

What we don’t want:
No erotica (we love erotica, just not for this anthology); no poetry (we love it too, just not for this anthology); no romance as the primary story plot arc (as in: this story only exists to bring these two characters together)-but romantic subplots are welcome; no fanfiction.

Please query with your story idea before you get started writing your story-we’d like to cut down on duplications as well as off-topic submissions (plus it wastes less of your time if you’re thinking of something we already know we don’t want).

Compensation is an equitable distribution of royalties based on word count.

Word count: 3-8K per story
Submission window: Feb. 15 – May 15, 2010
Submit queries and questions to: helleboreandrue@drollerie.com

JoSelle Vanderhooft is the editor of the Gaylactic Spectrum-nominated anthology Sleeping Beauty, Indeed and a poet with several collections to her name, including: Fathers, Daughters, Ghosts & Monsters, The Memory Palace, The Handless Maiden and Other Tales Twice-Told and Ossuary, which was a finalist for the 2008 Bram Stoker Award. She has also written one novella, “The Tale of the Miller’s Daughter” and one novel, Ebenezer, which will be released from Drollerie Press in time for Christmas 2010. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah where she works as the assistant editor of a gay and lesbian newspaper and spends the time she isn’t writing collecting perfume, making jewelry and playing with her cats.

Catherine Lundoff is the award-winning author of two short story collections, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing and Night’s Kiss, and the editor of Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories. Her stories have appeared in over 70 publications in different genres and she teaches writing classes at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Website: http://www.visi.com/~clundoff.

Submissions to Flyleaf Press for other projects are not yet open but will be announced soon.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds awesome!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Please keep us in mind if you have something that might suit - I've always enjoyed your work. :-)

[rachel-swirsky.livejournal.com]

Sounds fun!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

I'm very excited about it. Please keep us in mind if inspiration strikes. :-)

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov!
Hope it's the start of a long and fruitful collaboration for you with Drollerie!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! :-)
And, of course, if you come up with a notion you think might work, please keep us in mind.

[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

This sounds exciting. Asking for queries first sounds sensible all around.

[jean-roberta.livejournal.com]

Will have to look up the herbs in the title. (Years ago, I ran across a fabulous book named The Folklore of Plants, first published 1895 - not available for sale, it was in the local public library.) Will you post something along these lines? (Rue seems associated with Ophelia, who wears hers--i.e. regret--with a difference.)

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

Honestly, not intended to be symbolic. The herbs in question have certain uses in pagan herbcraft, more protective/cleansing than anything else. They just sounded lovely and magical when put together. :-)
Re: the querying.It was helpful on HH so we're thinking it will be to the good here as well.