SPECFICWORLD'S FEATURED SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Guidelines Main Page Currently closed to submissions. We will open to submissions January 2009. Needs: We are looking for speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and horror) in all styles, mixes, and viewpoints. Length: Short collection of four or five short stories. Each short story should be between 1,500 and 11,000 words. Payment: We will pay a token payment of $5 for each original and $2 for reprints. You will also recevie a free one year subscription to our market database for speculative fiction writers ($12.97 value). And authors that have at least one published novel/novella/anthology/collection will also receive a free one year listing in our Book and Magazine Directory ($7.97 value). How we pay: All writers that submit to us must have an active PayPal account for payment. Rights: We purchase world-wide electronic rights only. All rights return back to the author after publication. Reprints: If you're sending us a reprint please include the first place your story was published, the month and year. Please let us know if your story is currently available in any other online venues or publications. How to submit: We accept electronic submissions only. Send submissions to . Make sure to put "SHORT STORY COLLECTION - Your name" 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 one zip attachment. Underline all italicized text. Please include all contact information with your manuscript. Use Times New Roman 12pt font and single space all paragraphs and double space all section breaks along with marking them with three asterisks ***. Multiple Submissions: You can submit up to ten short stories contained in one zip file. We will pick the four or five stories we will use in the collection. Simultaneous Submissions: It's okay with us as long as you let us know that you've also submitted it elsewhere. And if your story is accepted by another publication please inform us immediately. Response time: 1-4 months. If you haven't heard back from us within four months feel free to query with the date of your submission or assume it has been rejected. Our responses will come in the form of a simple form letter via e-mail. Publication date: 2-5 months from the date of contract acceptance.
Currently closed to submissions. We will open to submissions January 2009.
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