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Tor.com is SFWA’s newest qualifying short fiction market

Tor.comToday the board of directors of SFWA unanimously voted to add Tor.com to the list of SFWA qualifying markets. Just celebrating its first year online, this extension of Tor Books features science-fiction and fantasy fiction as well as art, non-fiction, essays, and book reviews.

They have published SFWA authors such as Ken Scholes, Steven Gould , and Kij Johnson.

Congratulations to the entire editorial staff at Tor.com and their writers!

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4 Responses to “Tor.com is SFWA’s newest qualifying short fiction market”

  1. Kaolin Fire Says:

    July 27th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    Now if only they weren’t invite-only.

  2. Charlie Stross Says:

    July 27th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    *Waves hand*

    Also: me and Scalzi.

    Kaolin Fire: have you considered politely introducing yourself to one of the editors? I think you’ll discover it’s invite-only because they’re not set up to manage a slushpile, and if you’re an SFWA member and/or a Tor author they’ll talk to you.

  3. Mary Robinette Kowal Says:

    July 27th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

    And me! Forthcoming anyway.

    Just as a data-point, I queried and submitted to them before selling them a novel.

  4. Patrick Nielsen Hayden Says:

    July 28th, 2009 at 4:49 pm

    Pretty much what Charlie Stross said. I’m the fiction editor for Tor.com (along with my more conventional job at Tor-Books-the-publisher) and I’m perfectly happy to hear from real writers; I just don’t want to be buried in the thousands of submissions that result from being listed in lots of “market reports.” If someone’s unsure whether I’d be willing to look at their stuff, they can always query me at my usual address, pnh@panix.com.

    In a reversal of Tor-the-publisher’s policies, I’d much rather get everything–queries, submissions, death threats, Nigerian banking opportunities–via email. I can be reprehensibly slow to respond, because (1) Tor.com is an add-on to my already overbusy job and (2) I suck.

    We pay 25 cents a word for the first 5,000 words, 15 cents a word for the second 5,000, and 10 cents a word after that. We’re mostly interested in stories from 4,000 to 10,000 words, but we’ve made some exceptions. Never-before-published work only, please.

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