Live Free or Undead
NEW 2/16/10: GREAT WRITERS WANTED!!!
Great writers wanted for small-press project with a local angle. An anthology titled “Live Free or Undead: Dark Tales from the Granite State” will be published by Plaidswede Publishing of Concord, N.H. with an October 2010 shelf date. Editor Rick Broussard plans this as the first in a series of short story collections under the theme “New Hampshire Pulp Fiction.” Subsequent editions will treat the classic genres of mystery, science fiction, historical romance and adventure. Submissions between 1,000 and 8,000 words will be considered. For longer stories, query first. Writers need not be from New Hampshire, but all stories must use recognizable locales, people and/or themes of the Granite State. Deadline for submissions is March 31. Contact the editor at nhpulpfiction@gmail.com or visit www.livefreeorundead.com for details.
Great writers wanted for small-press project with a local angle. An anthology titled “Live Free or Undead: Dark Tales from the Granite State” will be published by Plaidswede Publishing of Concord, N.H. with an October 2010 shelf date. Editor Rick Broussard plans this as the first in a series of short story collections under the theme “New Hampshire Pulp Fiction.” Subsequent editions will treat the classic genres of mystery, science fiction, historical romance and adventure. Submissions between 1,000 and 8,000 words will be considered. For longer stories, query first. Writers need not be from New Hampshire, but all stories must use recognizable locales, people and/or themes of the Granite State. Deadline for submissions is March 31. Contact the editor at nhpulpfiction@gmail.com or visit www.livefreeorundead.com for details.
NEW 2/16/10 FROM THE CONCORD MONITOR: “ Rick Broussard, editor of New Hampshire Magazine, is putting out a call for all things spooky.The Concord resident is compiling an anthology of horror stories titled Live Free or Undead: Dark Tales from the Granite State, and he would like submissions before March 31 that fall between 1,000 and 8,000 words. The stories don’t have to be written by New Hampshirites, but they must use recognizable locales, people or themes of the state. Broussard hopes it will be the first in a series of short story collections he calls “New Hampshire Pulp Fiction.”
Printed and distributed by Plaidswede Publishing in town, Live Free or Undead is set to hit store shelves this October, just in time for the spookiest day of the year.
CM:How many stories do you have so far? I’ve got seven stories already submitted, and I’ve got another half dozen I think are coming in. . . . There’s a lot of interest in this. I suspect we’ll get at least 30 stories when were done, and I’ll have to pick the 20 best.CM: What’s so scary about the Granite State?
RB: By limiting the focus on New Hampshire, you start thinking about what’s horrifying about New Hampshire, and there’s actually a lot. Any place with high, dangerous mountains and deep, dark woods is by nature a spooky place . . . but there’s also colonial history and a lot of pirate history. A lot of ancient fright.
CM: What sparked your interest in the horror genre?
RB: I’m a wannabe writer. I always wanted to write fiction as a kid. I was a big fan of HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe. Now I have an anthology I’m sure I can get into. I know the editor (laughs).
CM: What sparked your interest in the horror genre?
RB: I’m a wannabe writer. I always wanted to write fiction as a kid. I was a big fan of HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe. Now I have an anthology I’m sure I can get into. I know the editor (laughs).
CM: What makes a good horror story?
RB: It’s about something familiar and something unknown. A good horror story has both of those elements. It’s the creepy house everybody’s seen before, but there’s the light in the attic that nobody knows about.
CM: Any ideas for a story around here?
RB: I think the State House is as good a horror story location as any place. . . . One zombie in there and the state (Legislature) is basically gone.”
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100215/NEWS01/2150351
So funny. I found your site from NH Mag when I went to order that beautiful litho of NH. I think I have a pretty cool scary NH story to submit, we own a children’s summer camp in Wolfeboro, so it’s kind of our camp legend story, ever elaborated on over the years, best heard in front of a campfire on a starry night with melted marshmellows and pine needles stuck to your sleeping bag, but I ‘ll have a go at it. Also, we are descendents of Franklin Pierce, I’d like to read the book you featured. Ms son attended Dartmouth and took a job in Los Angeles upon graduation, great job, making lots of money, but he misses NH terribly, the poster is a birthday gift for him.
Laura Pierce