LUNCH HOUR STORIES is seeking submissions for its premier 2007 season. The new literary magazine publishes only short stories and distributes them only to paid subscribers. Lunch Hour Stories are thin, easy to carry booklets that contain ONE short story each.
Subscriptions to Lunch Hour Stories will become available July 1, 2006. Free sample issues will become available early spring 2006. To add your name to our mailing list, please send complete contact information to mail@lunchhourbooks.com.
Submissions
Stories should be previously unpublished, literary in nature (no genre pieces, please), 4000-8000 words, copy-edited, and formatted in common manuscript style.
Send printed manuscripts in duplicate (manuscripts will not be returned), along with complete contact information, a short synopsis of the story (100 words or less), a short writing and publishing history, and a SASE with adequate postage for response to:
Submissions
Lunch Hour Stories
22833 Bothell-Everett Hwy
STE 102 - PMB 1117
Bothell, WA 98021
Submissions will be accepted at any time; however, the deadline for publication during the 2007 season is June 30, 2006. Authors who submit their work prior to the deadline and who are selected for publication will be contacted and asked to sign a publications agreement and to submit an electronic version of their story (in WORD) no less than three months prior to scheduled publication.
Publishing Rights
By submitting a story to Lunch Hour Stories, the author gives Lunch Hour Book Publications the right to print and distribute it to our list of paid subscribers and to be the first publisher of the story anywhere in the world. All rights will revert back to the author after publication, with certain limitations for the first year thereafter. Prior to publication, the author will be sent a publications agreement to sign with full details.
Compensation
Lunch Hour Book Publications will compensate the author $50 for the right to publish their story. We will also provide him/her with ten (10) printed copies of their story (additional copies may be purchased for $2 each), a free one-year subscription to Lunch Hour Stories (a $22 value), and a short personal interview on the Lunch Hour Stories web-site.
For more information, please contact the Lunch Hour Stories editor at editor@lunchhourbooks.com.
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