It Calls From The Sea

Submission Open: July 1, 2020

Submission Close: October 01, 2020 2:00 a.m. EST

Publishing timeline: December 2020

Theme: Bring me your shipwrecks, your lost passengers and mysterious creatures. Tantalize me with gripping tales of horror and drown me in tears of sorrow as we discover what lies within the deepest crevasses of the ocean or in the innocent creek.

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As with all our “It Calls From” Series this one is HORROR, so I want to be scared. Be it real or mythological creatures of lore that attacks, make our hearts race and our nightmares come alive. We also want it to be within our reality, so please keep your stories on our earth. If you are doing a future earth story, we would still like it within our relative timeline, so don’t go too far into the future.

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The ocean is deep, dark and vast. There are real dangers lurk not only below but above. Raging storms or unrelenting heat can create madness.

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Storm drains and murky creek beds are also a great source of inspiration.

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Word count: 1000 – 10000 (preferably over 2k under 8k but we will read all within these)

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Compensation: Equal royalty split per story. Digital copy emailed to you.

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Formatting guidelines: See our Submission Format guide below

All fiction manuscripts should be in standard manuscript format. Most important: Pen name, title and email on top, double-spaced, 12 pt standard font (e.g. Times, Arial, Courier), and page numbers.

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How to submit: CLICK THE VIA LINK BELOW AND USE THE FORM PROVIDED

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Multiple Submission: Yes – We will be happy to read up to FOUR stories per author.

However, we will publish a max of two stories per author, per book. Please send each story in a separate form.

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Reprints: Yes we are accepting a small number of reprints.

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Things that are a hard pass: any animal erotica and all forms of rape