Thursday, 24 June 2010

Carina Press

Digital publishers, Carina Press are on the look-out for manuscripts in the follow genres:

Women’s fiction
Romance (all subgenres) and erotic romance
Science fiction
Fantasy
Futuristic
Mystery (all subgenres)
Thrillers
Horror
Family saga

They consider shorter length stories of between 15,000 and 50,000 words, genre novels between 50,000 and 100,000 words, as well as longer mss of over 100,000 words.

Payment is royalty based.
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Non-fiction anthologies

Dream of Things is currently accepting creative non-fiction stories on 15 different topics for their anthologies.

They buy one-time rights and pay various royalties - 15% on hardback books, 10% on trade paperback books, and 20-40% on electronic books - each author’s share being based on word count: for example a 2,000-word story included in a 40,000-word book, will receive 5% of the royalties for that book.

Full submission guidelines can be found on their website.
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Thursday, 10 June 2010

100 Stories for Haiti podcast - episode 1


In this episode of the 100 Stories Podcast, Greg McQueen talks about how the idea for 100 Stories for Haiti first started. He also interviews Lorraine Mace, one of the volunteer editors on the project, and co-author of The Writer's ABC Checklist -- a book described by best-selling author, Simon Whaley: "It's like having a professional writer who knows all the answers, right by your side."



Links associated with this podcast

* www.100storiesforhaiti.org
* www.37signals.com
* www.accentpress.co.uk
* www.danpowellfiction.com
* www.flash500.com
* www.internetforpeace.org
* www.lorrainemace.com
* www.maureen-vincent-northam.co.uk
* www.thewritersabcchecklist.blogspot.com
* www.wordswithjam.co.uk
* www.writelink.co.uk
* www.writersbureau.com
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