SUBMISSION INFORMATION

          Submissions to Ruby's Pearls may be made by direct upload to
     Pen & Brush BBS, 1-703-644-5196 in the Virginia/Washington, D.C.
     area. After sign on, join the Ruby's Pearls Conference (66), hit
     a U for upload and leave a message advising that you have made a
     submission. You may also upload submissions to Treasures BBS, 1-407-
     831-9130 in Longwood, Florida. After sign on, join the writer's
     conference, go to directory 157, (hit J 157), and hit an F for files,
     to find the Ruby submission directory, (directory number 2), and then
     a U for upload. You cannot upload on the first call, but if you will
     leave a message for the Sysop, he will upgrade you within 24
     hours, and future uploads may be made with ease and speed,
     allowing us to consider your submission for a last minute
     inclusion. Pen & Brush accepts uploads on the first call. You
     may also make your uploads to Ruby, herself, by calling Ruby's
     Joint, 1-305-856-4897. Ruby will open shop at her BBS on
     February 20th, 1993, and will be on call 24 hours a day, (as is
     Ruby's bent). If calling Ruby's Joint, simply press F to list
     files and go to the Ruby Upload Directory. Ruby, of course,
     takes all comers on the first call. We strongly urge all contributors
     to investigate this method of submission, which is our preferred
     option. Uploads must be made in ASCII format only, or can be mailed
     on disk, in IBM-ASCII format only, to Del Freeman, Editor, 1640 Micanopy
     Avenue, Coconut Grove, Florida 33133.
          Guidelines are flexible, generally 250 words to 2,500 words
     for short stories, but a really good entry will win out every
     time.
          A.C. Aarbus, Inc., the corporation under which Ruby's
     Pearls is published,  makes no payment to its authors, but exposes their
     work in one or more locations, in one or more cities, in each of
     the 50 states, on GEnie, CompuServe, and to one or more BBS boards
     abroad in London, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Norway and Portugal.
     All rights, aside from a one-time showcasing in the elecmag, remain
     with the author at all times, and special permission is obtained from
     each author for reproduction of his or her story in the annual
     "best of" hard copy anthology.