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rainbowlounge2015-08-26 08:49 am
novel_machinist) wrote in rainbowlounge2015-08-26 08:49 am
Short Story Anti-Villain Anthology!
Ginger Goat is taking pitches for an anti-villain anthology! I'm going to pitch my "Crime Doesn't Pay" story. Submissions are open until August 31st! It'd be cool if he had a wide range of stories to choose from. This IS a paid gig, so... let's get out there and DO THE THING
Job Details
Stories can be any type of modern or future genre fiction, including but not limited to SF, horror, superhero, supernatural, weird, supernatural religious, paranormal romance, etc.
Pitch emails should include a short sample of your fiction, a pitch for your story in this anthology, and an introduction of yourself as a human person.
I pay a minimum of $.05/word. I plan to pay $.10/word for shorter stories. (I'm willing to negotiate paying you royalties instead, if I'm already familiar with your work and you prefer that method of payment.)
Since I want to Kickstart this fiction anthology, I plan to pay two or three authors for stories to show during the Kickstarter. Other authors would start writing their stories after we fund. No one should start writing their story until they have a contract and I've given them the go ahead. I don't want anyone to write for me until I already have money for them in hand.
Each story should be 800 to 2500 words. There may be one or two stories that are longer than this.
There will be at least seven stories. Depending on how well the Kickstarter does, there may be as many as fifteen.
I will accept pitches until August 31st. Pre-Kickstarter authors will probably begin writing in October.
Post-Kickstarter authors will begin writing in January 2016 at the earliest.
Job Details
Stories can be any type of modern or future genre fiction, including but not limited to SF, horror, superhero, supernatural, weird, supernatural religious, paranormal romance, etc.
Pitch emails should include a short sample of your fiction, a pitch for your story in this anthology, and an introduction of yourself as a human person.
I pay a minimum of $.05/word. I plan to pay $.10/word for shorter stories. (I'm willing to negotiate paying you royalties instead, if I'm already familiar with your work and you prefer that method of payment.)
Since I want to Kickstart this fiction anthology, I plan to pay two or three authors for stories to show during the Kickstarter. Other authors would start writing their stories after we fund. No one should start writing their story until they have a contract and I've given them the go ahead. I don't want anyone to write for me until I already have money for them in hand.
Each story should be 800 to 2500 words. There may be one or two stories that are longer than this.
There will be at least seven stories. Depending on how well the Kickstarter does, there may be as many as fifteen.
I will accept pitches until August 31st. Pre-Kickstarter authors will probably begin writing in October.
Post-Kickstarter authors will begin writing in January 2016 at the earliest.
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Do you know if there's any specific format for the e-mail, or particular kind of information I should put in the pitch an bio thingie? (It's okay if you don't/there isn't, I just like making sure.)
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Here's the whole thing. I don't know if it'll work or if it's good, but ... Nothing ventured nothing gained!
Hallo! I'm Lily Xavier
My friend Matt Bannock linked me to your call-out for work and I absolutely am interested in what you're doing. As a person I've got two degrees, one in English Literature (Post World War Two Period Literature from South America and Germany, if you want specifics) and another in Biomedical Engineering Technologies. My wife and I live in Columbus, Ohio and while she's working on getting her own business off the ground I'm working as a Clinical Engineer for a local hospital. It's my dream to focus on writing full-time so lately I've been taking steps to work on that.
As for my writing, I focus on characters in the queer community and characters of color. I have a lot of stories that are working in the same urban fantasy universe, but I am also working on a series of fantasy work and attempting to rewrite some fairytales. You can find more about the work that I'm doing on my Dreamwidth community, Roost. The community does require that you have a Dreamwidth to read more than the profile, I've set it up that way because sometimes I do post work that is NC-17. Of course, if you see anything in that profile you'd like me to show more of, I'd be happy to send it along at any time.
The sample that I've attached is from a working story called "The Devil is a Gentleman" Alan is a man in his 40s, down on his luck and his best friend is dying. This is the perfect time to meet the devil, right?
The Pitch:
Karen's a recent Wunderkind as far as the FBI is concerned. She has a no-nonsense way of dealing with serial killers and specializes in not getting into their heads, but allowing them into hers. When she was growing up, her parents were absent in many ways. Her older brother Kalen worked very hard to fill the gap. It was Kalen who was there for every major event in her life and it was Kalen who helped her get the position in the FBI. Of course, he did this because he's a serial killer and someone had to catch him. Now Karen is balancing the fallout and dealing with her new partner, Bertie who is far more attractive than she has any business being. Their first case together is going to test their partnership with fire when a killer is desperate for Karen's attention.
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...Well, now it's how I did it.
*hyperventilates*
XD
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WE WILL SEE...
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> pay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33o32C0ogVM
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(This is the part where you tell me that's totally enough of a pitch for a minimum eight-hundred-word story. XD)
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It's MORE than enough to pitch. He doesn't want peopl to waste their time writing till he can pay them anyway. You don't need a complete work. :D Do eet!!!
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I don't know, maybe I'll just come up with something new. I just need to...do that thing. In four days.
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You just need a one paragraph pitch! :) and a sample of writing. [image: thebonesofferalletters: A city at evening (Default)] whoever you want us to be (thebonesofferalletters http://thebonesofferalletters.dreamwidth.org/profile) replied to a Dreamwidth entry "Short Story Anti-Villain Anthology!" http://rainbowlounge.dreamwidth.org/86718.html in which Willa Graham ( novel_machinist http://novel-machinist.dreamwidth.org/profile) said:
Ginger Goat http://ginger-goat.blogspot.com/2015/08/anti-villain-call-for-short-story.html is taking pitches for an anti-villain anthology! I'm going to pitch my "Crime Doesn't Pay" story. Submissions are open until August 31st! It'd be cool if he had a wide range of stories to choose from. This IS a paid gig, so... let's get out there and DO THE THING
Job Details
Stories can be any type of modern or future genre fiction, including but not limited to SF, horror, superhero, supernatural, weird, supernatural religious, paranormal romance, etc.
Pitch emails should include a short sample of your fiction, a pitch for your story in this anthology, and an introduction of yourself as a human person.
I pay a minimum of $.05/word. I plan to pay $.10/word for shorter stories. (I'm willing to negotiate paying you royalties instead, if I'm already familiar with your work and you prefer that method of payment.)
Since I want to Kickstart this fiction anthology, I plan to pay two or three authors for stories to show during the Kickstarter. Other authors would start writing their stories after we fund. No one should start writing their story until they have a contract and I've given them the go ahead. I don't want anyone to write for me until I already have money for them in hand.
Each story should be 800 to 2500 words. There may be one or two stories that are longer than this.
There will be at least seven stories. Depending on how well the Kickstarter does, there may be as many as fifteen.
I will accept pitches until August 31st. Pre-Kickstarter authors will probably begin writing in October.
Post-Kickstarter authors will begin writing in January 2016 at the earliest.
The reply was:
By gods, I want to do this thing. I keep coming back to this and string at it, I just have no idea who I would work with.
I don't know, maybe I'll just come up with something new. I just need to...do that thing. In four days.
From here you can:
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I did wind up doing the thing, which was pretty nerve wracking. But it's done now, so that's good.
Also, DW is ridiculous. Or maybe emails are, if you poked that comment through an email response.
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And GOOD LUCK! NOW WE WAIT