submission guidelines

Last-minute Query Tips, Part 2

December 9, 2010

In preparation for the open submissions period I’m reading for at Dragon Moon Press, I posted a list of quick last-minute tips for sending out query letters. Here’s the continuation. Tips, part two: some helpful things to keep in mind when giving your queries a last look-over, to help you avoid some common mistakes. In [...]

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Last-minute Query Tips

October 28, 2010

With Dragon Moon Press about to reopen for submissions in a couple of days, I thought I would take the opportunity to refresh readers on some helpful things to keep in mind when giving your queries a last look-over, to help you avoid some common mistakes. In no particular order: If you know the name [...]

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Dragon Moon Press — Open Submissions 2010

October 18, 2010

Dragon Moon Press will be reopening its virtual doors for another open submissions period: November 1 – December 31, 2010. WHAT WE WANT: Completed 80,000-110,000 word novels, not previously published. As always, we’re looking for strong, compelling fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal fiction of all flavors. We are particularly seeking fresh, original urban fantasy. WHAT [...]

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Contact Information

June 28, 2010

Two friendly reminders about contact information… 1. It seems silly, I know, but please put your contact information (including your email address) in the body of your email. Down at the bottom after your signature is a fine place. Sometimes when some email programs forward messages, or sometimes when some email programs print messages, the [...]

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Does Size Matter?

December 3, 2009

Submissions are going very well so far! I’ve received more than a handful of manuscripts, from authors representing four countries and five genres, and more are trickling in every day. The question I’m asked the most about Dragon Moon Press’s open submissions is how firm the word-count guidelines are. “My book is shorter than 80,000. [...]

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The Great December Slush Rush

November 23, 2009

Final preparations are underway in anticipation of the month of open submissions at Dragon Moon Press. Reaction has been varied and interesting. I’ve been told alternately that I’m brave, smart, and crazy for deciding to open the gates for a month. I’ve already received submissions that fall into every category on the “do not send” [...]

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Call For Submissions

November 12, 2009

It’s time for an experiment. Dragon Moon Press will be opening its virtual doors for submissions for the month of December, 2009. WHAT WE WANT: Completed 80,000-100,000 word novels in the following genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Gentle Horror, in any flavor or variety. WHAT WE DON’T WANT: Children’s, middle grade, YA, nonfiction, biography, short stories, [...]

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Gentle Horror

October 22, 2009

Just as I was sitting down and going over my list of potential blog topics, @paul_e_cooley asked an interesting question over on Twitter and graciously gave me permission to reprint it here. The Dragon Moon Press guidelines specify fantasy, science fiction, and ‘gentle horror’, so the question, “What’s gentle horror?” was probably inevitable. While I [...]

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The Crapshoot

April 16, 2009

Authors will often refer to the submission and rejection process as a crapshoot. For those unfamiliar with the term, craps is a dice game of chance. A crapshoot is a roll of the dice, and it’s come to mean a gamble with random and uncontrollable results. You’ll probably have heard, more than once, that getting [...]

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My Submission Preferences

April 13, 2009

When submitting to another editor or a publisher, follow their guidelines. When you’ve hired me to edit your manuscript, or when your manuscript is being submitted to me or edited by me for Dragon Moon Press, the less formatting work I have to do, the better. My personal preferences (which bear a striking resemblance to [...]

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