Short Business: Short Fiction Recommendations for April 2016 - September 2016

[helloladies]

We're excited to reveal the results of our 2016 Q2-Q3 Short Fiction survey!

Check out the stories below. We included word count where available. For some stories the word counts are approximate because not all publishers provide them; corrections are welcome! Stories that must be purchased to read are marked with an asterisk, but we've linked to their home magazine or anthology page on Goodreads.

We'll be collecting short fiction recs for October through December until the 31st of December, after which we'll do another formal rec list, which will be posted in early January. Please share your favorite short fiction read during this time period. You can find our form at http://goo.gl/forms/pBnXAYLPM3. We'd appreciate any signal boosts so more folks who read short fiction can find us and participate.

We've also streamlined our form and added a question to the survey this round; it's optional, but we'd appreciate your feedback.



Happy reccing & reading!

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What's a Word Worth? - Finally, How Metaphors Work (Piercian Semiotics #4)

[justira]

What's a Word Worth is a new column by justira about the mechanics of writing. In this column, I examine the actual writing of every single book I read, focusing on how it conveys meaning and whether the writing works for me as an editor, reader, and fellow writer. My analysis will be based on the Peircian semiotic framework, explained in the first few posts of the column.

We're here! I'm finally going to talk about how metaphors work! Let's do this!

Welcome to the fourth post in my introductory series for this column. The first four posts will introduce readers to Peircian semiotics, which is the framework I use to analyze writing. If you're new to this column, please check the first, second, and third posts in this series. If you're following along live and are returning after a week away, you might benefit from taking a look at the review section of the previous post.

One More Trichotomy: Hypoicons⁽¹⁾

This is the last trichotomy, I promise! It's also the one with all the good stuff in it.

So!

There are actually three types of icons. ( Read more... )