06/27/95 WRITER'S GUIDELINES FOR DREAM FORGE MAGAZINE ===================================================================== <<(*=-- DREAM FORGE --=*)>> MAGAZINE <<((*=-- The electronic for your mind! --=*))>> ===================================================================== (formerly RANDOM ACCESS HUMOR and RUNE'S RAG) Publisher: Dave Bealer Managing Editor: Rick Arnold dbealer@dreamforge.com 75537.1415@compuserve.com Forge, v.t.; from L. fabricari, to make, construct; from _faber_, a workman, artisan. 2) to make by or as by this method; to form; to shape; to produce. syn. make; hammer; invent. Monthly e-magazine for a thinking and literate readership, 95% freelance written. Will work with new and underpublished writers. Publishes ms average of 1-2 months after acceptance. Takes first serial electronic rights, will accept one time rights on reprints. Pays apx. 60 days after publication. Submit seasonal material 2 months in advance. "Looking for stories with a positive message, even if the message is hidden deep within the fabric of the work." Preferred length 1,000 to 2,000 words, fiction 2,000 to 6,500. Writer's guidelines for #10 SASE or download as DF_GUIDE.TXT. Sample e-copy and guidelines on dos disk for $2.00 with SAS(M)ailer. METHOD OF SUBMISSION: Send your ALL ASCII TEXT ms by Data Modem to: DREAM FORGE BBS, (410) 437-3463 to Sysop; file attach to FIDO address 1:261/1129; WRITERS BIZ (412) 588-7863 to Sysop; f/a to 1:2601/522; or INTERNET to: dbealer@dreamforge.com, or Via mail on a DOS disk: uncompressed, ASCII ONLY, with two copies of the ms on the disk, e.g. MYSTUFF1.DBC, MYSTUFF2.DBC. Where mystuff1 is the file name and .DBC the extension consisting of your initials. Include a short Bio with your submission, e.g. ALLANPOE.BIO; 5 TO 10 lines with a 70 column maximum. We DISCOURAGE submissions on paper, but grudginly accept if EXCELLENT! Important: Include an e-mail contact address, or BBS number for e-mail along with your home phone (contact hours), and postal address. All manuscripts considered disposable, unless you provide RETURN mailer. -------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: After saving your manuscript to ASCII TEXT, please check to ensure that there are no control codes! Printer and other codes will trash the file as it gets passed via various gateway systems! Look at it with a DOS EDITOR (Qedit) and you should see only text. ==================================================================== NONFICTION: Humor, satire, essays, reviews, Op-ed, and political commentary from 1000-4000 words. Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing. FICTION: Short stories most any genre from 1000-6000 words, longer works will be serialized; accepts humorous short-shorts under 1,000. Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing. POETRY: Any style and length will pay: $2-$20, plus profit sharing. DREAM FORGE shares profits with authors; where 10% of profits, from specific revenues, are paid on a pro-rated basis as a bonus to the authors from the issue in which the authors' work appears. Details of the profit sharing are contained in the authors' contract. ********************* If you are an overly successful author, you may decline payment, and your funds will be donated to targeted non-profit agencies which DREAM FORGE, Inc. supports: Reading Is Fundamental, Laubach Literacy International, and Literacy Volunteers of America. *** ===================================================================== "There's no fiction as imaginative as that seen on the nightly news." ===================================================================== Other DF documents available: info@dreamforge.com DREAM FORGE Subscription Info odfd@dreamforge.com Info to be Official DREAM FORGE Distributor writers@dreamforge.com Writer's Guidelines for DREAM FORGE order@dreamforge.com Personal Subscription Order Form olorder@dreamforge.com Online Display Subscription Order Form odfdfrm@dreamforge.com ODFD Application Form ad_rates@dreamforge.com Advertising info Dream Forge, Inc., 6400 Baltimore National Pike, #201 Baltimore, MD 21228-3915 BBS: (410) 255-6229 (data to 28800 bps) * DREAM FORGE is a trademark of Dream Forge, Inc. =====================================================================