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Lucille Fisher ([personal profile] novel_machinist) wrote in [community profile] rainbowlounge 2015-08-28 07:56 pm (UTC)

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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