{"id":13,"date":"2012-09-25T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T14:30:19","slug":"guidelines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That said, here are our guidelines for when we re-open:<\/p>\n<p>All submissions should adhere to &#8220;standard formatting.&#8221; What that means to us is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; page size (we&#8217;re a US-based press)<\/li>\n<li>1-inch margins on all sides<\/li>\n<li>left-justification (ragged right margin)<\/li>\n<li>12-point Courier typeface, double-spaced<\/li>\n<li>use underlines to indicate italics<\/li>\n<li>a right-justified header on all but the first page<\/li>\n<li>that header looks like this: Last Name \/ Title Word \/ #<\/li>\n<li>author&#8217;s name and contact info on the first page<\/li>\n<li>author&#8217;s bylineoand story title centered below that<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep in mind that while the particulars of submission guidelines may at times seem arbitrary, they also serve as a useful <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shibboleth\">shibboleth<\/a>. Authors who can&#8217;t be bothered to follow instructions are likely to be a source of other problems, regardless of the quality of their fiction. Guidelines allow editors to eliminate such submissions very quickly indeed.<\/p>\n<p>All submissions are by email only. Attach the story to your email as an RTF file (not a TXT, DOC, or DOCX file; if you don&#8217;t think this matters, see the previous point about shibboleths and reconsider).<\/p>\n<p>Please include your full contact information in the body of your email, as well as a short list of recent credits. Other &#8220;cover letter&#8221; style goodies are neither requested nor required. Additional guidelines are detailed below, depending on which of our project lines you&#8217;re submitting to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What rights do you buy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We buy first world print rights, for publication in the English language anywhere in the world. We ask for no competing publication (i.e., you can&#8217;t sell the same story somewhere else) for eighteen months, with exceptions made if your work is solicited for a &#8220;best of&#8221; anthology.<\/p>\n<p>We also buy ebook rights, with that same eighteen month exclusivity. Our ebooks are released without DRM, and in addition to being sold in the usual places, we will email a complimentary ebook to anyone who can demonstrate they&#8217;ve already purchased the physical book.<\/p>\n<p>All other rights remain with the author.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you pay?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most of our projects pay a pro-rata share of royalties after initial production costs have been covered. This allows the press to limit its financial exposure, increasing the likelihood that we&#8217;ll be around to publish other titles down the road. If a book does well, the press and the authors involved both benefit. If a book tanks. We do not pay advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS That said, here are our guidelines for when we re-open: All submissions should adhere to &#8220;standard formatting.&#8221; What that means to us is: 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; page size (we&#8217;re a US-based press) 1-inch margins on all sides left-justification (ragged right margin) 12-point Courier typeface, double-spaced use underlines to indicate [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papergolem.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}