BY GARY DALKIN
Four of the world’s most famous genre magazines, the US-based Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Asimov’s Science Fiction and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, all published by Dell, have recently moved from a monthly to bimonthly schedule. All titles retain their overall annual page count, with each new issue being twice as big as before.
• Asimov’s pays 8-10¢ per word for short stories up to 7,500 words, and 8¢ for each word over 7,500. They will rarely consider stories shorter than 1,000 or longer than 20,000 words. Also required is genre poetry up to forty lines, with payment $1 per line. The title buys first English language serial rights. No reprints or simultaneous submissions.