Official Table of Contents for FISH

Table of Contents, FISH (due out February 8, 2012)

  1. Alexa, Camille “The Skin of Her Skin”
  2. Bennardo, Matthew “The Fish-Wife’s Tale”
  3. Blake, Polenth “Thwarting the Fiends”
  4. Darrach, Shay “I Know a Secret”
  5. Davis, Amanda C. “O How the Wet Folk Sing”
  6. Dixon, Paul A. “One Let Go”
  7. Duyvis, Corinne “The Applause of Others”
  8. Englehardt, Megan “Anansi and the New Thing”
  9. Fleming, Sam “What the Water Gave Her”
  10. Fuller, Andrew “A Salmon Tale, 2072”
  11. Fullerton, H.L. “The Fish Are There On Land”
  12. Gardner, Cate “Too Delicate for Human Form”
  13. George, Zachary “You, Fish”
  14. Hendrix, Sarah “Never to Return”
  15. Kane, Tim “Vanity Mirror”
  16. Kneeland, Andrea “Becoming Human”
  17. Kwak, Jessie “Needlepoint Fish of Azure City”
  18. L’Orange, April “Quick Karma”
  19. Lalumière, Claude “Xandra’s Brine”
  20. Liu, Ken “How Do You Know If a Fish Is Happy?”
  21. McBride, Tracie “The Touch of Taniwha”
  22. McIntyre, T.J. “How Did the Catfish Get a Flat Head, You Wonder?”
  23. Nakayama, Timothy “Fallen Dragon”
  24. Naquin, R.L. “Kisses In the Snow”
  25. Obedoza, Mel “The Fisherman and Golden Fish”
  26. Palmer, Suzanne “Lanternfish In the Overworld”
  27. Povey, Jennifer R. “Water Demons”
  28. Rambo, Cat “The Fisher Queen”
  29. Romasco-Moore, Maria “Fisheye”
  30. Ruby, Jacob “The Talking Fish of Shangri-La”
  31. Shvartsman, Alex “Life at the Lake’s Shore”
  32. Spencer, A. D. “Fish Tears”
  33. Wood, Mjke “The Last Fisherman of Habitat 37”
  34. Zup, Andreea “Maria and the Fish”

Please note the Table of Contents is currently listed alphabetically by author’s last name, and does not reflect the final order of stories.

Dagan Books will be open to Novel submissions on Oct 1, 2011

and short story collections and novellas ….

We are looking for speculative fiction, particularly science fiction (hard, soft, near-future, etc), magic realism, urban fantasy, and apocalypse fiction. We rarely like sword and sorcery type fantasy, aren’t interested in “slasher” type horror, don’t care for religious themes (which includes demons/the devil), and will not accept poetry of any kind. Please do not send us a romance novel, no matter what setting it is in, as that just wastes your time and ours. Seeking complete (finished, edited) manuscripts of up to 120,000 words.

Step one is to submit a query to us using our automated form. If interested, we will reply with a request for a synopsis and the first three chapters.

Please note: If you are submitting a collection of previously published material, you must have recovered all rights to those stories BEFORE submitting to us. Do not submit a collection which contains stories still under copyright to another publisher.

If you’d like to submit work to Dagan Books, please see our Novel, Collection, Novella Submissions page for more information and the query form.

7 Most Common Fish Submissions

Before you let this list scare you away, it isn’t intended to say that we wouldn’t want to look at any more submissions on these themes. A brilliant story retelling something we’ve seen before can still be a wonderful addition to our anthology. However, we’d love to see what else you have, too.

  1. Retelling of the Little Mermaid story
  2. POV of a fish as it’s being caught by a fisherman
  3. Good Luck / Wishing Fish
  4. Pet goldfish (small, orange, live in a bowl)
  5. Stories which don’t actually have any fish in them*
  6. Old fisherman, at the end of their lives
  7. “And the moral of the story is …”
* Please note: those stories we could actually do without.