PLASHMILL PRESS
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Scottish Horror Stories
NEW! PlashMill Press will be publishing a collection
of Scottish Horror Stories later this year and we are considering submissions
now. Authors may submit up to five stories each.
Stories must:
Be around 5,000 words, no less than 3,000 and
no more than 7,000
Be original unpublished material
Have some Scottish element in the narrative
Be genuinely scary!
Stories may:
Be in either Scots or English
Be set in the past, present or future
Be psychological, supernatural, political, high
suspense or terror in genre-- the only real requirement is that the
story really makes us shiver
Authors may be:
Of any age
Of any religion or ethnicity
Based anywhere in the world
Successful submissions will be paid a one-off
fee on publication of the book. The amount is still to be decided but
will be in line with market rates and will include an option to e-publish
should we wish to. Selected authors must provide a short biography for
inclusion in the book. All authors whose work is included will receive
a complimentary copy of the book and may buy further copies at a discounted
price. Authors will retain all rights in their work except that: once
work has been accepted for this collection the author may not publish
it elsewhere until twelve months after our publication appears; PlashMill
Press will retain a non-exclusive option to publish the work in any
future publications on payment of 50% of the initial fee for each publication.
Please do not delay. We have not yet set a deadline
for submissions but one will be announced here when it has been decided,
so keep an eye on this page. As soon as the deadline has passed we will
make our final decision about which stories to include.
Email your story: To submit by e-mail read the
notes below and then send your story HERE
Please note the following before submitting:
We will not consider any work that is not presented
in a professional, properly edited form. All material must be in a standard
face such as Times New Roman or Arial, at 12-point size, and double-spaced.
Work must be spelled consistently with respect to the language it is
written in and must be properly punctuated.
Files should be named in the form "authorname.title.filetype",
for example johnsmith.vampires.doc and files must be a recognised word-processor
format, pc compatible. Files MUST be editable. Please don't send PDF
documents as they are a right pain to edit. Files should simply be attached
to a covering email.
Remember to attach a biography and full contact
details.
Please allow thirty days for consideration of
your submission; this period may be extended at our discretion. We will
communicate with you by email. Your contact information will be kept
on file by PlashMill Press unless you ask us to delete it. However it
will not be sold or passed on to any other organisation without your
consent.
POSTAL SUBMISSIONS
If submitting on paper, please don't forget
to include a valid e-mail address.
Work must be printed, not typed or hand-written,
in 12-point double-spaced on one side only of plain white 80gsm A4 paper.
Please do not use any fancy typefaces or formatting.
It would help greatly if you would make sure
the title of the piece, your name and the page number are on the header
of each page. We require an overall word count to be supplied and this
should be on the title page. Your biogaphical details should also be
appended.
If you want the work back you must enclose a
stamped addressed return envelope.
Postal submissions should be addressed to:
Submissions
PlashMill Press
The Plash Mill
Friockheim
Angus DD11 4SH
Scotland (UK)
However please bear in mind that if you submit
on paper and we accept the story, we'll ask you for a digital version....
SCHOOLS! If you are a teacher and you
think you have a budding M.R.James, H.P.Lovecraft or Stephen King, or
maybe all three, in your class, please get
in touch-- we will be delighted to discuss ideas with you and of
course your school will be credited if any work is selected, along with
the incentives above.
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