CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CONTEST - TERROR TALES FROM CRIB TO CRYPT

ATTENTION, ALL HORROR WRITERS!

Lilley Press presents a special Anthology Contest just for you!

Our senior artist, Ron Leming, has created an awesome cover and we are looking for novella length horror stories to match it. You can find the cover here:

This is what we are looking for:

Novella length fiction (Horror only please!) between 20 and 25K.

All stories must incorporate or mirror the cover design in an obvious way. Blood and gore is fine, so long as it is not overdone. We're looking for a lot of spooky and creepy with strong characters and plots. Stories can take place in our world, in other worlds, in space - wherever, so long as the theme of the cover design is adhered to.

What we are not looking for:

"Fan Fiction" or stories with copyrighted characters or worlds.

No vampire stories, or satanic/cult stories (at the request of the artist).

Submissions Procedure:

Lilley Press accepts only electronic submissions.

All submissions should be emailed to us as a MS Word rtf attachment at specialprojects@lilleypress.com. We do not accept doc files, pdf files, or anything with a file extension other than rtf. Any such submissions will be rejected.

Please include THE ENTIRE MANUSCRIPT as a complete separate file. Do not send individual chapter files.

All submissions must be in a clearly readable, 12 pt font (Courier, Times New Roman, etc.)

All submissions must be double spaced, with one inch (1") margins.

Paragraphs should be indented five spaces.

It is not necessary to use _ for italics or * for bold. We prefer to see italics and bold as the author intended them.

Please use curly, double quotation marks for dialogue. "This" instead of 'this'.

Please be sure to include two spaces after periods.

Please send us your BEST work. Submissions should be free of punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors. For your reference, Lilley Press uses the Chicago Manual of Style.

Deadline for Submissions is December 1, 2009. Winning submissions will be chosen by the artist, and all winners will be notified by January 31, 2010.

Winning submissions will be published in the Anthology, which will be released in September/October 2010 (in time for Halloween!) Royalties will be split evenly between the contributing authors.

Thank you, and good luck!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

HOLIDAY THEMES

Lilley Press presents a special release of themed novellas and short novels!

Current themes: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day.

Word length: 25,000-80,000 words.

Genres: Paranormal Romance; Speculative Fiction (Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk etc; Mainstream (Contemporary); Young Adult.

Please DO NOT send "Fan Fiction" or stories with copyrighted characters or worlds; Erotica; Plays; Poetry; Nonfiction; or any of the other genres on the list in our general guidelines.

We are looking for strong plots and characters, and all stories must relate to/feature our current themes.

The subject line of your email should read: [Genre] [Title] by [author's real name], [Theme]Submission.

All manuscripts should be formatted according to our formatting guidelines.