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                   <<(*=--  DREAM FORGE  --=*)>>
                             
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    <<((*=--  The electronic          for your mind!  --=*))>>
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(formerly RANDOM ACCESS HUMOR and RUNE'S RAG)

DREAM FORGE 
Dream Forge, Inc., 
6400 Baltimore National Pike, # 201
Baltimore, MD 21228-3915
Modem: (410) 437-3463 (data to 28.8baud)

Publisher: Dave Bealer
Managing Editor: Rick Arnold

GUIDELINES for DREAM FORGE e-magazine:

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 rights, will accept one time rights on reprints. Pays 
approximately 30 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 4,500. 
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 ASCII 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 FIDO 
1:2601/522; or INTERNET to: @dreamforge.com, or Via mail on a DOS 
disk: uncompressed, pure ASCII, 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. If you're submitting on paper, it had best be 
short, very good, and expect a much longer processing time. 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 will be considered disposable, unless you provide RETURN 
mailer and sufficient postage. 

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.

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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. ***                  
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"There's no fiction as imaginative as that seen on the nightly news."