While surfing through a lengthy post over at Nick Mamatas' website, I found a whole secret treasure trove of links to magazines that buy science fiction stories. Nick lead the charge with this thoughtful, link-full post about how Dennis Etchison got published...
"Following the instructions for manuscript submission in WRITERS DIGEST he submitted the story to five or six science fiction magazines. After receiving rejection slips from them all, he remembered something else Bradbury had said: "Always send your story to the least likely market you can think of, because it won't be anything like what they're used to seeing and it will stand out, rising to the top of the slush pile like cream," wrote Mamatas.
"I've sold fiction to Disinfo.com, Razor, Spex, Suicide Girls, Wide Angle NY, and even Scalzi's friggin's blog — to name a few venues that paid at least as well and had at least as many readers at a minimum as the big three."
At the end, Tim Lieder chimed in, turning me on to this LiveJournal page called Writers Markets for Speculative Fiction--a mountain of writing outlets looking for writers like you...
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