Ongoing Submissions: GRADEside Middle Grade & Young Adult Horror
Payment: 50% royalties
Theme: Short stories, novels, and novellas – Horror stories for younger readers (middle school to YA)
Beware the children…
We’re asking for your tales again, this time not for Graveside Press, but for GRADEside Stories!
Gradeside is your haunted carnival for the tales geared toward younger readers—still spooky, but with a little restraint. Both middle grade and young adult titles are considered, however, if we feel your YA title skews to an upper YA older audience, we may ask to publish it as a standard Graveside title.
Requirements:
- wordcount: 2,000-6,000 (short story) / 20,000+ (novella or novel length)
- aimed at a middle grade to young adult audience (10+)
- have a PG to PG-13 rating
The standard horror elements are allowed, but keep in mind who you’re writing for. Topics such as extreme body horror, assault, torture, etc., will not be considered. MG stories should maintain a PG rating, and YA should stick to PG-13.
STANDARD PAY RATES
- Standalone works (novels, novellas, short stories “Tiny Terrors”) – 50% royalties of net earnings paid quarterly
- Anthology submissions – 2¢ per word to be paid 90 business days after publication
- Illustrations – $75
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
When submitting, please do not send your manuscript already formatted as a book with fancy chapter headers, fonts, margins, etc. We would greatly appreciate if you can follow the formatting guidelines below:
- file type: *.doc or *.docx
- Font: Any legible serif, e.g., Times New Roman, Garamond
- Include author information at the top of page 1 (see sample below)
- Use formatted indents and not tabs to begin each paragraph
- Use hard returns to start new paragraphs
- Use page breaks to begin chapters on a new page
If you would like an example of what a properly formatted manuscript looks like or need help with any of the above, check here.
When in doubt, just remember we want your MS as clean and readable as possible!
More information can be found here on our website.
Have a question you can’t find an answer to?
Hannah Rebekah Graves (Aquisitions Manager) – [email protected]
