Finally a bit of good news: after a shitload of behind-the-scenes effort,Brain Harvest launches today. Brain Harvest is an online speculative fiction magazine run by Clarion West superstars Eden Robins, Caren Gussoff, and myself, with an emphasis on the short-short: fiction between 100 and 750 words.
As editors of Brain Harvest, we want to publish stuff at a length accessible to mobile devices. As a super handsome dude said, we’re talking about fiction you can read in the gap between the time you order a cheeseburger and when they hand you the bag. You can say a remarkable amount in this amount of words, and that length is underserved by the existing establishment. Plus you can read ‘em quick, which is important when you get 10+ submissions a day, which is what we’ve been getting since mid-February.
We’re a pro market, which means we actually pay people when we publish their stuff. This is an interesting prospect, since after the end of this week I will be unemployed, bringing the total of employed BH editors to 1. We have various schemes on how to drag this fucker into the black, but for now, publishing only once a week, we should be able to stay alive for a while before we bleed out. And maybe unemployment will give me the chance to do some work on the site to make it cooler.
So if you’ve got the aforementioned cheeseburger time, head over to BH and become part of our fiction-centered community. If you have suggestions, about anything, mail me any time. And if you can write something interesting that’s between 100 and 750 words, I urge you to submit it – the world of fiction needs you.
Update: Cory posted a blurb about BH on Boing Boing! Damn it, Eden got mentioned, but I didn’t. Guess that’s because he looooves her.