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Deadline: July 31st, 2012 Payment: Royalty rates well above what authors can expect from most NY houses or epublishers. Entangled Books authors receive 9% of print cover price and as much as 40% of digital cover price, while Entangled Select and Entangled Teen authors receive 9% of print cover price and 20% of digital cover price. What if Sleeping Beauty didn’t wake from a spellbound slumber, but rose from the dead? What if the Big Bad Wolf was more interested in Grandma’s brains than in Little Red? What if Snow White was an ass-kicking punk goth grrl with her entourage of seven zombie minions? Classic fairy tales never die…and this Halloween, you’re going to help them rise from the grave. For our 2012 Halloween Ever Afters, Entangled Publishing wants your fairy tale retellings with an undead twist. Even in the land of the dead, survivors find love – and sometimes it’s a little easier with the dating pool narrowed down to anyone with a pulse. So take Alice on a trip down the rabbit hole into zombieland. Reinvent Beauty as a badass biker babe on the run from an ex-boyfriend turned into a flesh-eating Beast. Make us hungry for romance…or we’ll come for your brains. Submissions must: Be 20,000 to 40,000 words in length. Contain strong romantic elements. Be a retelling of a classical fairy tale involving zombies, whether traditional Grimm’s or classical stories from other cultures and collections. Please note that we will not accept retellings of modern / recently published fairy stories or fairy tales that may currently be under copyright. Avoid excessive gore and necrophilia. We’re looking for sweet and / or funny romances with a dark twist and elements of horror, not explicit horror stories – and definitely not sexualized depictions of intercourse involving the undead....

Deadline: July 31, 2012 Payment: $5.00 flat rate. $1.00 for every additional 1,000 over 5,000. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR “Down The Rabbit Hole” –Tales of slipping into new worlds. July 31, 2012 Edited by Jessica A. Weiss Email submissions to: [email protected] Please put SUBMISSION, followed by the title of the story, and word count, in the subject line of your email. Thank you. What We Are Looking For: Take us on a journey to another world. Think: Neverland, Oz, Wonderland, Fantasia, Narnia, Sliders, The Phantom Tollbooth, and Wind in the Doorway. We want to know what could happen in another place other than here, where the rules are new and unique. Prefer stories written in the third person—will consider first person if you knock our socks off. We prefer short stories in the 3,500- 7,000 word range, but will consider stories from 1,500-10,000 words. Refer to website for general submission guidelines. Payment: $5.00 flat rate. $1.00 for every additional 1,000 over 5,000. Submissions will be accepted until July 31, 2012 (12a.m. EST) Questions about this anthology? Email the editor at [email protected]

Deadline: July 31st Payment: % of profits from book sales CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: HOUSE OF HORRORS In the dark of night, a stealthy tread creeps down the empty hallway, creaking the floorboards. Drawing near your bedroom. Filling your thoughts with a thousand images of sunken-eyed horrors and hollow, gaping mouths of disjointed teeth, pallid hands reaching for you, death-whitened bodies turned translucent and cold. Closer. Closer. Closer, until your heart takes a single drunken stumble and then stops, caught in the frozen grip of terror. You stare at the black maw of the open door. It’s coming. Coming for you. It’s… …your sexy boyfriend shuffling back from a midnight kitchen raid, with crumbs on his chin and nothing else on but a sleepy smile. But pretty boy might want to put on some pants – because you aren’t alone in the house, and the dead are coming out to play. Entangled Publishing seeks Flirts with a haunting theme for our 2012 Halloween releases. We’re looking for chilling stories of ghosts, poltergeists, possession, haunted locations, ghost hunters, exorcisms – and maybe even love from beyond the grave. While romance is essential to the story, what we’re really looking for is that thrilling edge of fear to add spice to the romantic tension building between our H/H. Submissions must: Be 10,000 to 15,000 words in length. Contain strong romantic elements. Involve supernatural events at a haunted location. We’re looking more for ghost stories than standard paranormal romance with supernatural elements. More Paranormal Activity or House on Haunted Hill, less Underworld. Avoid excessive gore. We’d like chilling tales with strong romance, but nothing that would make our gorge rise. Scare us, thrill us, but let us keep our lunches firmly where they belong. All heat levels will be accepted, but erotic elements must...

Deadline: July 31st 2012 or until filled Payment: 1 cent a word US, plus one copy. Dark Opus Press is proud to present For all Eternity, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, our second annual anthology. We will be looking for stroies base on ONE of the following sins: Envy, Greed, Gluttonly, Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Wrath. We're sorry, but for the concept we're going for here we are not accepting poetry, reprints or artwork for this anthology. Our guidelines are simple. All stories MUST be based on ONE and ONLY ONE sin. Since we are accepting only seven stories for this project our acceptable word count has changed. All stories need to be between 3,000 and 6,000 words. This word count is firm and stroies outside this word range will not be considered. MUST be in proper manuscript format. This means: Courier New or Times New Roman fonts, doubled spaced, no extra space between paragraphs, indent paragraphs. Words meant to be italicised or bolded in the final print, please make sure it is that way in your manuscript. Please read our magazine guidelines to see what we do not want. If you don't review our magazine guidelines, we will know. Send your submissions to: [email protected] In the subject line please put: submission - Your story title/your sin of choice For example: Submission - Stewie's Melancholy/Sloth Payment for accepted works will be a 1 cent a word US, plus one copy. The reading period for this anthology will start July 1st and end July 31st or until filled. Stories sent before July 1st will be deleted unread. All submissions must be in either .doc, .docx, or .rtf Please be advised: If you require a form to be filled out by us in order for you to get our emails, we...

Deadline: July 31, 2012 Payment: 2 cents per word, paid within 90 days after publication. Contributor copy of print and ebook (can choose between .epub or .mobi/Kindle versions) What is Erotica? Erotica is literature or art intended to arouse sexual desire. It is not mature content, which is understood to have sexual arousal as its main purpose. Erotica includes a sexual aspect but it is only one part of the larger aesthetic. In other words, writing erotica is not about graphic descriptions of people having sex, it’s about making your reader want to have sex. It’s a tease, a flirt, a seduction … Who is Cthulhu? H.P. Lovecraft wrote smart, surreal, supernatural horror stories in the early 20th century. Cthulhu is one of several fictional creatures created by Lovecraft in the early 20th century. Lovecraft’s stories, and some of the works of his followers, outline what we now call the “Cthulhu Mythos”. Mythos characters include both the monsters and the men who discovered them. Cthulhurotica is the place where sex and madness meet. What are we hoping to get from Volume 2? We want to expand on the first book, without discarding any of it. The stories from Cthulhurotica are bold, sexy, creepy, empowering and frightening. What we’re looking for now is more … We want stories which use more of Lovecraft’s settings and characters. We’ve got Innsmouth and Arkham, but what about the mountains, the Artic, aboard the Emma? We met Nyarlathotep, the Mi Go, and the King in Yellow, but what about Ithaqua, or the Hounds of Tindalos? Tell us about Charles Dexter Ward’s neighbor, or the secretary in Professor Peaslee’s office. What if Richard Upton Pickman painted pinup girls too? There is so much, both in Lovecraft’s work and in the associated Mythos stories by other authors,...

Deadline: August 1st, 2012 Payment: $25/story and 2-Copies of the Anthology "The Inanimates I" Anthology Submission Guidelines All manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word and should be double spaced with an extra space between each paragraph. There should be no indention at the start of each paragraph. Word Count: 3500 to 15,000 words "The Inanimates I" is a Horror/Dark Fantasy/Weird Tales Anthology Each submission should have a main character which is an inanimate object, but has all the feelings, fears, and emotions of a human. Dolls and Dummies have been done to death in stories like these and have 0% chance at success, in this anthology. To keep variety in the flow of the anthology, only a small percentage of stories told from 1st Person view point will be accepted. Creepy, Terrifying, and Unique tales have the best chance at acceptance. Our submission period for the anthology is open from April 1st, 2012 to August 1st, 2012. Send to: [email protected] with "The Inanimates Submission" in the subject box.

Deadline: August 1, 2012 Payment: 1/4 penny for each word Trinity Gateways is now taking submissions for our first anthology! We are currently looking for short stories for the horror anthology titled Shadows of the Mind, which will be published as an e-book with the option to print. Please read through requirements and guidelines thoroughly prior to submission. Payment will be 1/4 penny for each word. Story Requirements It must be of the horror genre; we are most interested in stories that will disturb the reader. Graphic language/scenes are okay as long as integral to the story; No gratuitous sex scenes or shock-effect vulgarity. Nothing “X” rated. It must be edited prior to submission Minimum Word Count: 1,000 Maximum Word Count: 6,000 Final Submission Deadline: August 1, 2012, or until Submissions are Closed Trinity Gateways Formatting Guidelines Document file type must be either Miscrosoft Word (1997-2003, 2007, or 2010) or Open Source; no other file type will be accepted Font Type: Times New Roman, Courier, or Arial Font Size: 12 pt All margins must be set to one inch (1″) Entire document must be double-spaced Text must be Left Justified (aligned to the left) Do not indent paragraphs with tabs or spaces No extra spaces (hard returns) between paragraphs Use two (2) spaces between sentences rather than one (1) Section breaks are to be marked with centere *** Title page must be included in the story file submitted, and must feature:No headers, footers, or page numbers Contact information (real name & valid e-mail address at minimum) in the top right hand corner Word count listed in the top left hand corner Story title centered midway down the page The word “by” one (1) line (double-spaced) below the title The author’s name or by-line (pen name) one (1) line (double-spaced) below...

Deadline: Aug. 1, 2012 Payment: Payment: Stories that are 3,999 words and under will be for exposure only. Stories that are 4,000 words and above will receive one paperback contributor copy as payment. Glimpses of Insanity Edited By Eloise J. Knapp Deadline: Aug. 1, 2012 Target Release Date: Oct. 3, 2012 How to Submit: Send submissions to [email protected] with “Glimpses of Insanity” (story title and author name)” in subject line. Please attach a WORD document file containing your story. Please use Times New Roman, size 10 font and please DO NOT double space or use headers or page counts. Page one of the file must contain your contact information (title of your disorder, name, mailing address, E-mail and word count) If any of these items are missing from your document, I will reject right away. If this information is there, it makes it easier for me to contact you. What we are looking for: We know about schizophrenia and Stockholm syndrome, but what about the truly odd and morbidly bizarre psychological disorders? What about Apotemnophiliaor Capgras Delusion? We are looking for stories with some amount of medical accuracy and, above all, dark exploration of these strange mental phenomenon. Stories should feature only one disorder and be of a horror/thriller nature.These stories will require basic research of a bizarre mental disorder and a plot, but beyond that let your imagination take you where it desires. Unacceptable themes: schizophrenia, Stockholm syndrome, pedophilia, necrophilia, multiple personality disorder, depression, bi-polar disorder. Payment: Stories that are 3,999 words and under will be for exposure only. Stories that are 4,000 words and above will receive one paperback contributor copy as payment. What rights we ask for: Exclusive Anthology Rights and Electronic Media Rights for publication in the US English language anywhere in the world. Exclusive rights...

Deadline: August 1st 2012 Payment: 1 cent a word plus a contributors copy You were warned…but you just didn’t listen! So after the horrific success of D.O.A., we have decided to please the masses by releasing a second volume. Volume II will be a more disturbing anthology (if that’s even possible), unsuitable for the easily offended, disgusted, or those prone to vomiting. We want stories, 750 – 5,000 words, that push the limits. The stranger and gorier the better. If you read the first installment, than you know that no subject is too taboo. However, we’re looking for you to exploit a lesser know taboo. Keep in mind that we are not simply looking for torture or scenes of gratuitous violence lacking a point or direction. Blood and guts only work if there is a great story and creative twists to back it up. Imagine that the band Cannibal Corpse got together with Richard Matheson and penned a story. The result would be D.O.A. Think Edward Lee, think Bizarro, think…well, you get the picture. So if you ever had a story idea that you felt was too extreme or offensive for a sane publisher, send it our way. We want your worst! Accepted stories will be paid a rate of 1 cent a word plus a contributors copy. Stories will be accepted from May 1, 2012 until August 1, 2012. We will not make final selections until the end of the submission period. Please do not query about the status of your submission until September 1, 2012. Send submissions to [email protected]. Subject should read: “D.O.A. II: story title/author last name”

Deadline: August 12th 2012 Payment: Charity Anthology - Exposure Only ‘Fear’ will be published, through us, in time for Halloween 2012. We’re looking for around twenty full, original and previously unpublished stories of terror, each around 4000 words in length. We won’t accept anything with fewer than 1500 words. If you think your story has what it takes, submit it to us at [email protected] with the words, HALLOWEEN ANTHOLOGY, in the subject line. Stories should be generally suitable for a broad adult audience. Scary, but not too graphic. Author and Publisher royalties will go completely to charity and, if accepted, your story will be published, in print and in e-format, as a part of the Anthology, across Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the iTunes BookStore from October 2012. The two charities benefiting are the independent humanitarian medical aid organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and the anti child poverty, fostering, and anti child exploitation charity, Barnardo’s. We can only accept submissions up until midnight PST on Sunday 12th August 2012. All authors will be contacted throughout August and September.