Deadline: September 30th, 2024
Payment: .01 to .02 per word + Royalty share
Theme: Speculative fiction anthology with a bass beat of a hidden villain and a tale involving the criminal.

Submission Period: July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024

Theme: Hidden Villains: Criminals – A speculative fiction anthology with a bass beat of a hidden villain and a tale involving the criminal. You could be chasing them down, victimized by them, or be the criminal; however you want to include them.

Criminals – lawbreaker, offender, delinquent, malefactor, culprit, wrongdoer, transgressor, felon, thief, robber, burglar, fraudster, swindler, racketeer, gunman, gangster, outlaw, bandit, crook, con, jailbird, malfeasant, miscreant

There is no restriction as to how you incorporate the theme into your story as long as the genre falls within Speculative Fiction, including Sci-Fi or Fantasy. We encourage you to weave the theme into an engaging story with well-developed characters and deep emotion. Suspense and thrillers are encouraged over horror for this anthology, but a great horror story will rise to the top.
Stories that contain infanticide, rape, or gratuitous gore will not be accepted.

Submission Period: July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2024

Submissions: No AI, 1 per author; no reprints, no simultaneous submissions;

Submission Cost: Free

Word Limit: 2,000 to 7,000 words

Submission Guidelines: Anonymous submission with no author name in document; 12 pt Times or Arial; .Doc or .Docx; double-space; first line indent; no tabs used.

Genres: Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Anticipated Pay: .01 to .02 per word + Royalty share

Each story will receive a share, as will the publisher, from the sales on the D2D platform. This does not include: Kickstarter funds unless detailed in the Stretch goals; wholesales to authors; or retail sales through non-D2D retail outlets. Links to D2D outlets will be available for you to provide to your customers.

Timeline Projections:
Submissions close: September 2024
Review: October 2024
Acceptance / Rejection: November / December 2024
Edits: December 2024 / Feb 2025
Production: March 2025
Published: April 2025

Upon acceptance, the author is expected to work with the editor on at least one round of revisions in MSWord. Our publication goal will be the spring of 2025; however, the extensive time needed to review and edit submissions may vary depending upon the submitted works and author’s response times. Inkd Publishing LLC will hold first publication rights for four months after publication and the continuing non-exclusive right to reproduce the work in Hidden Villains: Criminals.

Authors must provide assurance that their story submission is an original, previously unpublished work, is not currently under consideration elsewhere, and that it will not be submitted for publication elsewhere prior to receiving notification that it has not been accepted for inclusion in Hidden Villains: Criminals.

Authors can expect ongoing financial compensation from Draft 2 Digital for stories published in the anthology. An account with Draft 2 Digital will be required to provide royalty share payments. US authors will also receive one complimentary copy of the printed anthology, other shipping destinations will depend on shipping costs.

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Via: Inkd Publishing.