Taking Submissions: Space Opera Stories
Deadline: April 30th, 2025
Payment: $50 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Space opera stories with any of the following themes:
Note: Reprints welcome
Here’s a new project I’ll be launching via Kickstarter in May, 2025. And I’d like to invite you to submit a story for consideration! Feel free to share the link to this page with others.
Genre: Space Opera
Four Volumes of Six Stories Each
Each Volume Will Feature a Specific Theme:
- First Contact
- Alien Invasion
- Generation Ship
- Colony World
Deets:
- Send 2 stories maximum (each story with a different theme)
- Mainly wanting brand new stories; simultaneous submissions okay
- No f-bombs or GDs/blasphemies, no excessive violence or gratiutous sex
- Reprints considered, query first (basically, no longer widely available and older than 2020)
- 6,000 to 8,000 words; use standard manuscript format, American quotation marks; American or British spelling okay
More Info:
* Launching via Kickstarter, Spring 2025
* Payment is $50 per story (upon successful Kickstarter campaign); additional one-time payment possible; plus contributor paperback and ebook copy
* Eventually published on Amazon and beyond; ebook, audio, and paperbacks
* Will have non-AI illustrated covers (artists and graphic designers, contact me!)
* Author retains copyright – asking for 9 month exclusive use; no royalty share
Send submissions to Lyndon Perry at tulefogpress @ gmail . com with last name and volume theme in subject line (e.g., Perry, First Contact) any time before April 30, 2025.
Space Opera Stories
Edited by Lyndon Perry
Published by Tule Fog Press
Via: Residential Aliens.