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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Read this. It's part of the submission details to a magazine on Ralan: Online content - free to everyone Print/pdf content - not free, but not expensive. None of the print/pdf content will appear on the website. If you want to read it, you'll have to buy the print issue. None of the online content will appear in the print issues. If you want to read it, you'll have to visit the website. The online content submission process is the same as for the print mag, with the same requirement for excellent writing. If you don't state otherwise when submitting work, we'll assume it's for online. Please note that we may offer publication in a format that wasn't your first choice. There are several reasons for that, but the most likely are that the print issues for the near future are full and/or we have a greater need for online content OR a certain print issue is lacking content and your submission is perfect for it. Pros and cons for online: You may get more exposure for your work if you submit it to be placed online, but we don't pay for online content since it's being given away for free. Your friends and relatives can't get copies, they have to read the website. You can post the link to your writing all over the net so people can read it which you can't do with the print mag. You can't take copies to a convention or other places and show it around unless they have access to the website. Print issues come out once every 4 months. Online copy is updated continually. Regardless of whether you choose to submit to the print issues or the online version, the submission process is the same. Reprints for both the print mag and the online content pages are welcome as long as you have the rights. What we want: We are looking for fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Our mission is to provide good, quality entertainment to a wide audience. Rather than give you a long list of what we want, we'll provide you with a short list of what we do not want. If you're not sure whether your submission fits our not-wanted list, write and ask. What we will not accept under any circumstances : Fan-fiction. Content rated "R" or above. Blood, guts, gore or slasher horror. Religious material. Alternative Lifestyles. Cursing and Obscene Language. Darn, Heck, Drat... those are fine. Stronger words are not. It is not that hard to write something intense, even as intense as Fight Club, without resorting to a weak vocabulary. It might take a little extra creavitity to do so, but it CAN be done. It's fine to allude to the fact that someone's cursing. Even something as simple as "A string of curse words escaped his lips" can tell the reader what is happening, though other phrasing may be more interesting. For those that need clarification: Alterantive Lifestyles: Any sexual relationship that isn't a married man and woman. A boy and girl living together and having sex is alternative lifestyle, but a boy and girl who are simply roommates but not in a sexual relationship is not. Two guys in a sexual relationship is AL Two women in a sexual relationship is AL a man and his pig in a sexual relationship is AL and so on | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
What's it called? The Magazine of Infrangible Prescription and Implausibly Chaste Gobbledegook? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
You would think so, Prof. Actually, it's called 'Abandoned Towers'. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
More like Fawlty Towers. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
What if the man was married to the pig and the pig was called Woman? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
A string of curse words escaped my lips as I read those fucking guidelines. a few escaped my soapytitwanking keyboard as well. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.245.180 |
What if two eunuchs are in an emotional relationship? If the boy and girl are living together as roommates, how do we know or not exactly if they ARE having a sexual relationship? Speaking of FIGHT CLUB: "I want to have your abortion." No sex, no bad words there... would that line be acceptable?... | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.39.177.173 |
Weber, I don't know whether the guidelines or the descriptive phrase for your keyboard made me laugh the most. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
The strange thing is that on Ralan there is another magazine which makes it clear that they are a Christian publication, fair enough. But this one doesn't. Though this smells more like Born Again Christian! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
It's not a phrase I've had much chance to use recently, which is a shame. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Wow! That sounds like a laugh a minute publication. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.245.180 |
You know, I should follow his guidelines and write a GREAT story for this guy, so good he's just drooling to publish it... and the very last line will be, "And then he fucked his brains out - literally." And then I'll demand the line stay in or no-go for publication. Yeah, THAT'LL show him... mm-hmm.... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Evidently a bunch of ignorant wankers. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
It's their magazine, they can do what they want with it. Don't like it? Don't submit. There. Easy. I solved all the griping. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.61 |
Well there's another market that won't want to look at my autobiography | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Rather than give you a long list of what we want, we'll provide you with a short list of what we do not want. Well, gee golly gosh, but something tells me it wouldn't be THAT long a list. Riveting stories about married couples who don't have sex and never curse and live in a world where nothing bad or exciting ever happens. Shouldn't be that hard to write. Just plagiarise an episode of Leave it to Beaver, but leave out the homoerotic undertones. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
(: | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.208.112.230 |
"Well there's another market that won't want to look at my autobiography" You'll need to change the line that refers to soapytitwanking. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.213.225 |
Outside of wedlock. Or rather, outside of Weston. | ||
| Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin) Username: Richard_gavin Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 65.110.174.71 |
Niki wrote: "Riveting stories about married couples who don't have sex and never curse and live in a world where nothing bad or exciting ever happens. Shouldn't be that hard to write. Just plagiarise an episode of Leave it to Beaver, but leave out the homoerotic undertones."  Not to sound paranoid, but I think there are more editors and publishers who uphold this same stringent vanilla worldview than we'd like to believe. Most of them simply keep these leanings under wraps. This way they can reject "offensive" stories with the standard "Not quite right for us" line. At least the folks involved with this publication are open about their biases. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Me, I like it as offensive as it can get. The novel I'm editing at the moment has a sex scene between a bloke and a zombie lady-boy. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
>>Me, I like it as offensive as it can get.<< You don't know how glad I am to see those words...  | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
However, we may be about to find out that Zed is going to set that line and then leap nimbly over it. (; | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
At forty he won't be leaping nimbly, rather staggering blind drunk | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
All my authors stagger like blind drunks. No, wait, sorry that's just me. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
I'm drunk on prose. |