Announcing Open Call for Sword & Sorcery Fiction for Tales From the Magician’s Skull
Tales From The Magician’s Skull: Open Call for Submissions Listen Well, Mortal Dogs! If you wish to submit a tale to The Magician’s Skull, you must pay heed, unless you wish to consign your story to rejection and immolation! My magazine is devoted to the greatest of all genres, sword-and-sorcery. If you don’t know what that term means, I am unlikely to appreciate your prose, but I am informed that you may find a definition of the genre by clicking here. Tales From the Magician’s Skull is currently printed twice yearly and pays 4 cents a word upon acceptance. If I find your tale worthy, my minions will purchase select rights so we may publish the story. You retain the copyright. When Will You Open for Submissions? January 22, 2021 – April 1, 2021 My minions will open their portals to receive your submissions for a limited time during 2021. They will accept your electronic manuscripts beginning with the sacred birth date of the founder of sword-and-sorcery, Robert E. Howard, and ending with that day sacred to all fools. Watch this space for news regarding activation of the submission portals! I now relinquish control of this instructional document to my chief editorial minion. Pay him heed! Manuscript format We accept e-mail submissions only, in .rtf, standard manuscript format. I.E. double-spaced, with title and contact information and all that on the first page. If you’re not familiar with standard manuscript format, please look it up. The subject line of your email needs to be structured as follows: Submission – [fiction] – [title] – [your last name, your first name]. For example: Submission – Fiction – The Skull’s Day Out – Goodman, Joseph If you want to tell us who you are and provide some publishing history, drop it into your e-mail, but it’s not necessary. We really just want to show the Skull some great fiction. NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS. NO REPRINTS. NO MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS. Word Count High End: We’ll take stories up to 10,000 words, and might even go over, but we REALLY have to be in love with it if we do. If this is your first time submitting to us, you probably ought to send us something under 10k. Like maybe 6k or lower. Low End: We have a really limited tolerance for flash fiction, thought we might consider...
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