Deadline: September 30th, 2012
Payment: One electronic copy – format of your choice, author discount codes for electronic and print copies, an author byline with links and 50 percent of royalties split among authors according to amount of authors, and accepted subs per author. Payments will be made quarterly.

Title: Blood and Roses
Word count: 3000 – 10 000
Taking 20 – 25 stories
Deadline: September 30th, 2012

Blood and Roses is our first Valentine’s Day horror anthology scheduled for release February 1st, 2013.

What we want:

We want relationship stories of the extreme! Each story must contain the two elements from the title – blood and roses, but the rest is up to you. Give us your best unique take on the theme.

What we don’t want:

Explicit sex, incest, rape. (However, werewolf, or creature and human consensual relations are acceptable.)

No first person stories, third person only.

No reprints unless from well-established authors, or award placer.

Format:

“Subject line of email should read SUBMISSION: ANTHO NAME Title,”

12 point font, prefer Times, with indents.

Single line space, no hard or double returns.

Use italics and bold, as in the finished anthology.

Centered title with byline underneath, story body followed by ### at the end of story centered as well. The story should be left justified only, with ragged right and 1″ margins all around.

All submissions should be sent as attachment only, in. doc, .docx or. rtf.

Please include a brief cover letter with your name, word count, story title, pseudonym if used and relevant contact information in upper left corner.

Give a brief synopsis of your story, a few lines about you and your publishing credits if any, and a brief bio with a few links to use if your story is accepted.

Again, deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2012.

Payment
One electronic copy – format of your choice, author discount codes for electronic and print copies, an author byline with links and 50 percent of royalties split among authors according to amount of authors, and accepted subs per author. Payments will be made quarterly.

Please send all submissions and questions to: [email protected] to the attention of Jo-Anne Russell or Allen Jacoby.

[via Scarlet River Press.]