#...or do i?

[of-fear-and-love]

Psycho Goreman (2020)

[ratdentist]

pov you're an incorrigibly good host but no one touched your continental breakfast spread 🥲

like to take a nibble

[corrodedcoffyn]

I am breaking my draft streak to say -- someone stop me from making a muse from the mummy. (not the tom cruise one obvi)

[mumblingsage]

Not Mine, but here it is... Death of a Bad Neighbour: Revenge is Criminal One recent article in the Daily Telegraph Online which reported the trauma caused by at best inconsiderate, but at worst criminal, neighbours accumulated five hundred registered comments within half an hour of being...

10 cents a word plus a share of royalties So, I’m after around 20 short crime or mystery stories to fit the Death of a Bad Neighbour theme, 2,000 to 5,000 words (you’re the best judge of the sweet spot length of the story you tell), paying U.S. 10 cents a word for first English language text (eBook and print) and audio publication rights (exclusivity of these rights reverts to the author 12 months after publication or 18 months after the submission deadline, whichever is sooner, and waived for Best Of collections). The submission deadline is October 31st 2021. Accept/reject decisions during December, if not before. Payment on acceptance. Target publication date is April 2022. The anthology will be available ‘from all good bookstores’ in eBook and in print. Audio is scheduled to follow in July 2022. The anthology will remain in print, eBook and in audio indefinitely and a royalty will be paid pro rata by word count on each sale from the very first sale (approximately 0.75 per cent of net receipts per 1000 words after the distributor & store have taken their cut; this estimate depends on the final length of the anthology — these numbers are indicative only; I reserve the right to choose the distributor(s) and outlets and set cover price(s)). One submission only per author. No simultaneous submissions. Anything submitted outside the October 2021 window will be ignored.

One of the tests for inclusion will be whether a reader who has suffered from a bad neighbour can connect to a story such as yours and find it elevating or cathartic, while a reader who has not so suffered might gain some feeling for what utter misery a bad neighbour drags in their wake. Whatever else, give your story a beating heart. British English or US English? — use whatever English your story demands. Readers are sophisticated enough to understand the language that best fits a story. I will not be editing for any specific national or regional English usage.

Click through the link for complete guidelines. I (mumblingsage) am not affiliated with this market, just signal boosting. 

[bionigrls]

No More Bionicles, this is now an X-Pod Playoff (2004) Blog.

[a-sourpatchchild]

Me@Branjie

[flyingjemsaucer]