Taking Submissions: Sword and Laser
Deadline: August 15th 2013 Payment: $200 NOTE: This isn't a primarily horror anthology but if it fits in their guidelines it'd be worth a shot We’ve been talking about it forever but now it’s here. The submission process for the first Sword and Laser anthology. If you’re writer in either the sword and or laser genre or somewhere close to being related, this is your chance to be involved. OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR WRITERS (STARTING MARCH 1ST) Anybody can submit a story to the first Sword and Laser Anthology. We have two eligibility requirements: your story must be written in English, and you (or your legal guardian, if you’re a minor) must be willing and able to sign a contract if the story is accepted. SUBMISSION PERIOD Submissions will be accepted from March 1 – May 15, 2013. We expect to make our final selections by August 15, 2013. PAYMENT We pay $200 (US) upon acceptance. LENGTH We recommend a length of 1,500 – 7,500 words. We may choose to print shorter or longer stories in some cases, but this should be your target word count. RIGHTS If your submission is accepted we will buy the following rights: • World anthology rights in English and translation • Audio and ebook anthology rights World anthology rights and audio/ebook anthology rights are specific to anthologies. These are non-exclusive licenses allowing us to use your story in an anthology only. Specifying “in translation” allows us to request that your work be included in any potential foreign editions as well. You retain all other print rights. So you’re free to also sell your story to magazines, or websites, or podcasts, or as an individual short story (say, on Kindle), or in a collection of your own work, or even sell it to another anthology after...
Taking Submissions: Monster Hunter – Blood Trails
Deadline: August 15th 2013 Payment: $25.00, payable upon publication for First Worldwide Print and Electronic rights. Reading Period: 3/15/13 through 8/15/13 Tentative Publication Date: October 2013 Payment: $25.00, payable upon publication for First Worldwide Print and Electronic rights. Word Limits: 2000 to 6000 words. Submissions will only be accepted as DOC (Word) or RTF formats, submitted through our submissions link. Genres Accepted: Dark Fiction, Horror and Sci-Fi. No Fantasy or poetry accepted at this time. Original, unpublished work only. No reprints, please! No simultaneous subs (submitting to emby and another press at the same time). No multiple subs, please (keeping in mind that I will notify all authors as soon as possible if a story is declined so that they may submit that story to another market and hopefully submit another story to our book). Please read and follow our submission guidelines. Maybe 1,000 years ago, a poet wrote one of the most compelling tales of adventure that the world has ever known. That poem, Beowulf, is about a monster hunter. This particular hunter slew more than one monster and ultimately died from the wounds of a battle with a monster. In doing so, the pursuit was personal. The monsters had names. The pursuit was not some blind exercise in violence… Melville wrote of another hunter, as did Stoker. History and literature are filled with monster hunting stories. This is your chance to continue the tradition. We want to get to know the hunter and the hunted. We want to anguish in their pain, thrill in their victories and bow our heads to their defeat. MONSTER HUNTER – BLOOD TRAILS will explore these characters. Make us love or hate them; show us their strengths, their weaknesses and their idiosyncrasies. Make these characters come to life on the page and make...
