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Taking Submissions: FEARFUL FATHOMS: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror

August 31, 2015

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Deadline: August 31st, 2015
Payment: One cent per manuscript word. Max payment of $50.00 (USD) per story – for those submissions that may exceed the alloted word count. Another payment option we are offering is: One-time payment of $25.00 for publication of your story + a physical contributor copy / including cost of shipping / to be mailed out 90 days from date of publication.

Scarlet Galleon Publications would like to ask, 

HOW DEEP DOES YOUR FEAR GO?

Scarlet Galleon Publications is proud to announce our next project, FEARFUL FATHOMS: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror. This anthology is targeted to launch Memorial Day Weekend 2016, just in time for next year’s summer beach reading season!

We will be opening a call for submissions on August 1, 2015, which will run through August 31, 2015. We are looking for terrifying tales to comprise this new horror collection that will be the well-anticipated follow up to our acclaimed inaugural publication,DEAD HARVEST: A Collection of Dark Tales, which we are proud to announce debuted at #1 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Horror and Bestselling Anthologies in Horror. It has remained in the Top 100 since its publication in November, 2014. 

For fans of tales such as MOBY DICK, JAWS, THE DEEP, BEAST, MEG, THE ABYSS, BELOW, THE FOG, OPEN WATER, THE LOCH(and far too many other titles to mention here), this new anthology should be right in your wheelhouse! Whatever kind of aquatic tale causes your breath to turn sporadic, and makes the blood in your veins go ice-cold, should be the kind of story you’ll want to write. Thematic note: While Lovecraftian tales are certainly welcome, this is not a project soley centered on the Lovecraft mythos. 

What we are looking for – Stories set in or around water, which is to say: the beach, the ocean, islands, lakes, ponds, or even rivers, as long as the stories are dark, atmospheric, and, above all, well-written and chilling. We want these stories to stay withreaders long after Labor Day has come and gone!  

What we are not looking for – Stories merely focused “on” water (the dripping sound of it, the frigid temperature of it, etc.) ThinkTHE PERFECT STORM…or Stephen King’s THE MIST!  

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

DEADLINE: August 31, 2015

WORD COUNT: 2,000 – 5,000 (query for submissions that are a bit shorter or longer / no flash fiction please)

REPRINTS: Please query 

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: No

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: No

FORMAT: Left-justify only

FONT: 12 pt Times New Roman

SPACING: Double-spaced. No extra spacing between paragraphs. Scene breaks should be denoted by a centered # symbol. Please use only one space after periods.

TABS: Please do not set tabs. Rather, use Word’s paragraph formatting tool to set a first line auto indent of 0.3″ (Other settings will require reformatting on the contributor’s part, potentially pushing their submission past the deadline date)

PAGE NUMBERING: Lower right hand corner (along with the page number, please include the title of your submission and your last name in the footer; please place nothing in the header)

TITLE PAGE: Please include the following information in the upper left hand corner of your first manuscript page:

– legal name (and pen name if you write under one)

– mailing address

– phone number

– email address (and PayPal account contact info for the purpose of payment)

– final word count

Submissions should be sent as a Word attachment (doc or docx) to: [email protected]

Please include FEARFUL FATHOMS and the title of your submission in the subject line of your email. 

PAYMENT: One cent per manuscript word. Max payment of $50.00 (USD) per story – for those submissions that may exceed the alloted word count. Another payment option we are offering is: One-time payment of $25.00 for publication of your story + a physical contributor copy / including cost of shipping / to be mailed out 90 days from date of publication.

PUBLISHING RIGHTS: Scarlet Galleon Publications LLC will NOT require exclusive rights’ retention to any submission that is accepted for publication in FEARFUL FATHOMS: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror. However, we would require that you refrain from republishing your work elsewhere until after the book has gone on sale. 

We would like to thank you for trusting your work to Galleon. We look forward to reading your submission!

Warm regards,

Mark Parker, Owner / Managing Editor

Scarlet Galleon Publications LLC

Via: Scarlet Galleon Publications.

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August 31, 2015