submissions/guidelines

Please make sure your work has been seen before. For the new authors out there, this means any print or electronic display that is open to the general public. If you blogged it or posted it in a forum that is not password protected, it has been published.

Please be aware that if you submit to this e zine and we publish it, it will count as the first rights of the piece. Why not try to submit your work elsewhere and get paid? Don't give away your first rights. A resale doesn't bring in near the payment that an original piece can.

Sorry, but at this time we do not pay. Maybe later.

We take only one time, non-exclusive electronic rights.

No pornography, graphic sex, hate messages, child abuse or graphic rape or abuse, please. Since this is a public forum, please try to keep it at least P.G. 13. There are a lot of kids out there cruising without adult supervision. If you cuss, please make it appropriate to the story/character, and keep it down to a mild roar. We are pretty easy-going her, but until I get a private web site I'd like to keep it so that a 13 year old could read it.

Word count for both fiction and nonfiction: 3,000 or less. Same for interviews and book reviews.

If you can't back up your nonfiction with links, it may be posted as an essay.

Any genre except erotica.

Artwork should include the a statement the sender has the right to publish it in this forum. This includes book covers, except where needed for book reviews.

No poetry that requires special formatting, please.

We try to reply within a month.

For announcements/news articles, please check with the editor, susie hawes, at sfreader.com I will have a forum set up for this purpose.