Taking Submissions: Space Opera Stories

Deadline: January 31st, 2025
Payment: $50 per story and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Space Opera with one of the following 4 sub-themes: First Contact, Alien Invasion, Generation Ship, Colony World

Here’s a new project I’ll be launching early next year, 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
* 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) starting Jan 1, 2025.

Space Opera Stories
Edited by Lyndon Perry
Published by Tule Fog Press
Via Kickstarter, Spring 2025

Via: Residential Aliens.