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     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Some guidelines I've just been sent: On a side note, I have an anthology I'm cooking up: CTHULHU 2012 The anthology is based on the current expiration date for humanity, December 21, 2012, when the Mayan calendar ends. Does it mean the world ends? Or we enter a new age? The Hopi Indians prophecy an end of the world/change to a new aeon in this time frame as well. You can google 2012 and end of the world prophecies and find all sorts of conjectures. The time frame needs to be set around a 2012 event, either real or fictional, and involve the Cthulhu Mythos or be Lovecraftian in character. Deadline is the end if this year. Payment: 5 cents a word for a hardcover anthology. I plan to reprint as a trade pb, and then as a mm pb in the preceding years. Payment for the trade pb and mm pb will be royalties based on sales split equally among the authors and publisher. Stories should be submitted electronically as an rtf file | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
It's being published by Mythos Books - Google it. | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.133.63.150 |
The only info I find seems to suggest cut off date for subs is 31st December 2008. Not that I'm familiar enough with Cthulhu Mythos to actually write something. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.104.255 |
The deadline has been extended. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.237.156 |
Until the stars are right, presumably? | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.176.111 |
Or the end of the world; whichever comes first. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.210.244 |
Barbara, they come together: the one means the other. And we're talking soon. Very soon. I don't sacrifice goats for my health you know. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.176.111 |
So are you telling me that unless the story is written there's no point submitting, because there won't be enough time? We need to know these things. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.198.147 |
Sorry Barbara, I'm not talking about the book, just riffing on 'The Elder gods will return' millenarian themes. Simon may know the answer, but he's a man of mystery. | ||
| Barbara Roden (Nebuly) Username: Nebuly Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 216.232.176.111 |
I knew that, Joel; just teasin' ya. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.104.255 |
In terms of the deadline for the book, I believe it's now December 2009 (but interested parties ought to check). In terms of the elder gods return, I believe that is due in January 2010, so though there's enough time left to submit to the book, you're unlikely to see it in print before the destruction of this reality. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.225.159 |
I plan to reprint as a trade pb, and then as a mm pb in the preceding years. Presumably, you'll have to, if the world will be ending in 2012.... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.238.210 |
"I plan to reprint as a trade pb, and then as a mm pb in the preceding years." Best publishing plan ever: reprint in the past! The literary equivalent of Leiber's 'Change War'. Imagine the Modernist and Traditionalist factions of weird fiction going back through time, strategically adjusting what comes out and when, and what the covers look like, in order to give long-term supremacy to their tendency. I'm off to turn GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY into the first edition of THE NAKED LUNCH. See you in the past! |