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An anthology call for submissions
A MERRY MINION CHRISTMAS - Assorted Tales from the Realm of the Dark Fairy Queen
AMMC-DFQ – Rules and Guidelines
A Merry Minion Christmas: Assorted Tales from the Realm of the Dark Fairy Queen
In the style of the #DFQWBS that brought many of us together, we’re now collaborating on a Christmas anthology.
This project is open to members of the Facebook group Dark Fairy Queen and her Brilliant Minions.
If you are not a part of this group and would like to contribute, please contact the owner of this blog for details.
This is a free publication, with no royalties. However, an eBook will be available for download upon completion. If we receive over 50 contributions, the book will be available for print, for only the cost of printing and shipping. By submitting to the project, you agree to these conditions.
1. The submissions may begin on September 23rd with a final deadline of November 1st. This deadline is critical to produce a book by December.
2. The theme is a “Fantastical Christmas.” Use fantastical elements, even if they’re elements you believe in but someone else doesn’t. Examples include dragons, monsters, angels, fairies, magic, etc.
3. Tales must be between 500-1000 words in length. If necessary, we can allow some leeway, but no more than 50 words to either side.
4. Stories with dark, gory, romantic, or religions tones are all allowed and encouraged. Soapboxes are not. You are welcome and encouraged to write within your genre or religious element. However, if the editors feel you have slandered another culture, religion, or lack of religion, we will politely ask you to change the focus of your story.
5. Because this book may be read by younger children, keep your story within PG-13 guidelines. No f-bombs, sex scenes, or explicitly gory details, please.
6. You may make up to three submissions. Each submission must be a separate, complete story within 1000 words.
7. Each submission must be “satisfying,” i.e. a complete scene, leaving no unanswered questions or cliffhangers.
8. You may dedicate each story to someone as a Christmas gift, using up to two lines for your dedication.
9. Stories should be posted on your own website, or hosted on another writer’s website. If you would like to keep your dedication a secret, approach someone else within the #DFQ group about hosting your story. If you do not have a blog or do not know someone willing to host your story, message us – Laura James, Missy Ames, Nick Johns, Ruth Long via the FB group AMMC.
10. Each story must have a Title and Author Name, and “eBook Yes (or No)” to indicate your willingness to have it included within an eBook.
11. By tagging your story with #AMMC-DFQ and indicating “eBook Yes,” you agree to the publishing conditions mentioned above.
12. We will create a Facebook group (AMMC) to contain discussion of this anthology until its completion. Follow us on Twitter using the hashtag #AMMC-DFQ. Soon, a link code will be added to this post, which will connect all of our contributions.
13. Please use the following formatting, to make editors’ lives easier:
• Use double quotes for speech
• Use a blank line after each paragraph
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