Taking Submissions: Mummy Knows Best
Deadline: July 16th, 2017 Payment: Contributor's copy, £10 token payment, 5% royalty Mummy Knows Best Editor: Theresa Derwin Publisher: Quantum Corsets Submission deadline: Midnight GBT Sun 16th July 2017 Attach as: Word doc or doc x Genre: SFF/Horror Release date: Autumn 2017 at a SFF/Horror Con So, what do we want? What will your story need to be to potentially meet our requirements? It’ll be 3,500 – 7,000 with a preference of 5,000 words. You’ll have followed the Shunn guidelines and; used double quotation marks for speech and single for inverted commas. Mummy Knows Best is an anthology about Mummies. Not Mothers! Though if you have a great idea about a Mummy who’s a mummy, why not give it a whirl? Please consider the range of Mummies across the globe or even beyond! No place is anathema and no time is prohibited. I don’t want just Egyptian mummies! In fact, I will be accepting no more than two Egyptian mummy stories. If you have a solid idea for an Egyptian based story, please approach me at the email address below with a brief outline of no more than 200 words by 22nd June 2017. We would like to see a wide variety of stories from Eastern and Western cultures as well as anywhere your imagination takes you. However, I don’t want a rehash of Brendan Fraser or Tom Cruise blockbusters. Think Universal rather than Michael Bay – adventure and a sense of wonder are encouraged. A sense of humour would be good – if it doesn’t become a pastiche. I am looking for diversity – not just single, white, male, middle class characters. Reflect the multi-cultural society in which we live. LGBT characters are encouraged. Consider #POC as protagonists. Breath life and substance into your characters and settings. Please...
