SFW's FEATURED FICTION
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SINGLE AUTHOR COLLECTIONS
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Guidelines
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Updated:
July 26, 2008 |
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- What we want:
Looking for science fiction, fantasy, and horror in all styles, sub-genres, and
viewpoints.
- What we don't want: Stories
with excessive profanity, child abuse, bestiality, incest, or hate fiction. We pander
to an adult audience so please no fiction aimed at children.
- Tip: Send us only your best
because we will be submitting to a few of the year's best anthologies.
- Length: Short collections
of four or five short stories. Each short story should be between
1,500 and
15,000
words.
- How we pay: All writers that
submit to us must have a PayPal account for
payment.
- Payment: $5 for each story
and $2 for each reprint, paid on publication, plus a free one year subscription
to our market database ($12.97 value).
- Note: Authors that that have
at least one published novel, novella, anthology or collection also receives a free
one year listing in our Book and Magazine Directory
($7.97 value).
- Rights: We purchase exlusive
P.O.D and world-wide electronic rights (CD, disk, audio, email, download, or any
other digital format known or yet to be invented). We also retain
the right to archive your stories up to five years and reprint your stories for a possible
"Best of the Year Anthology."
- Reprints: If you're sending
reprints make sure you own the rights to resale your work. Pease include
the last place your story was published, the month, year, and issue. Also
let us know if your story is currently available in any other online venues or publications.
- How to submit: We accept electronic
submissions only. Submissions and queries should be sent to
. Make sure to put "COLLECTION: - Your Full Name & Proposed Title of Collection"
in the subject line. We use the same e-mail address for all submissions and without
the proper subject line we won't know where your story fits in our publications.
- Note: Your browser also needs
to be Javascript enabled to see the above e-mail address. We do this to hide our
e-mail address from e-mail harvesters
- Format: No need for a cover
letter; but make sure to include a short bio (written in third-person) embedded
in the body of the e-mail. Please include previous publishing credits and a short
150 word or less blurb (written in third-person) describing your collection of short
stories. The
blurb will be used for marketing purposes.
- Submission Format: RTF (.rtf)
or MS WORD (.doc) file sent as an attachment.
Underline all italicized text. Please include all contact information
with your manuscript. Use Times New Roman 12pt font and single space all paragraphs.
- Reading Period: August 20th
through November 20th, 2008.
- Multiple Submissions: You can
submit up to four stories at time. If you use this method please attach all stories
in one zip file.
- Simultaneous Submissions: It's
okay as long as you let us know that you've also submitted it elsewhere. And if
it's accepted by another publication please inform us.
- Response time: 1-4 months.
We
also send an automated notice immediately if we received your story safely. If you
haven't heard back from us within four months feel free to query with the date of
your submission.
- Publication date: Within twelve
months from the date of contract acceptance.
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