Otter Libris is an independent publisher of speculative fiction which needs stories for an upcoming anthology, MCSI: Magical Crime Scene Investigation. Writers should consider what tools detectives might use if the usual ones aren’t good enough and they have to use a little magic. The story, 3,000-10,000 words, should be an urban fantasy involving a crime scene which forces the investigator to use magic, ‘or engage the aid of a magical being to solve the crime’. Did the house sprite see what really happened in a domestic incident? Does the detective have a genie’s lamp that will grant him one wish?
Comedy is welcomed, as are diverse protagonists and ‘magic systems and magical creatures outside of the typical Europeanbased fare’.