Taking Submissions: Beyond
Deadline: June 10th, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Straightforward science fiction with great characters
A Science Fiction Anthology
Submission Period: March 10, 2025 to June 10, 2025
Theme: Beyond – Science Fiction.
Editor likes: characters, emotion. Dislikes: difficult words to pronounce. Faves: Dune, Expanse, Fifth Element, Foundation
Stories that contain infanticide, rape, or gratuitous gore will not be accepted.
Submission Period: March 10, 2025 to June 10, 2025
Submissions: No AI, 1 per author; no reprints, no simultaneous submissions;
Submission Cost: Free
Word Limit: 2,000 to 8,000 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: Science Fiction
Anticipated Pay: Royalty share of D2D sales
Each contributor will receive a share, as will the publisher, from the sales on the D2D platform. This does not include Kickstarter funds (unless the Stretch goals are met), wholesale to authors, or retail outlets.
Timeline Projections:
Submissions close: June 2025
Review: July 2025
Acceptance / Rejection: July 2025
Edits: July/August 2025
Production: August 2025
Published: October 2025
Upon acceptance, the author is expected to work with the editor on at least one round of revisions in MSWord. Our publication goal is dependent on 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 Beyond.
Authors must provide assurance that their story submission is an original, previously unpublished work, is not currently under consideration elsewhere, and that it will not be submitted for publication elsewhere prior to receiving notification that it has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 Beyond.
For the D2D royalty sharing, you 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 and are at the sole discretion of Inkd Pub.
Via: Inkd Publishing.
