Following up her recent anthology Sporty Spec: Games of the Fantastic, Karen A. Romanko is planning to publish a second anthology through her Raven Electrick Ink. Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy is a planned paperback anthology of “speculative flash fiction and poetry about movies, television, and Hollywood. Pieces about national cinemas of other countries (Bollywood, etc.) are welcome, as are present and future/imaginary extrapolations of moving-picture technology (YouTube, holograms, etc.), but the stories and poems must relate to moving pictures in some form and must contain an element of science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror.”
Romanko is looking for stories 2000 words or shorter, and paying 3 cents a word (up to 1000 words), $30 flat rate for longer. She’ll also look at reprints at 1 cent per word with a $20 maximum. For new poetry (maximum 49 lines), $5; $3 for reprint poetry.
Complete guidelines are available on this page. Reading period opens 5 August 2008, and closes when the book is full.