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- Submission Information
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- We're looking for a few good writers.
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- Actually, we're looking for as many good writers as we can find. We're
- interested in fiction, poetry, reviews, feature articles (about most
- anything, as long as it's well-written), humour, essays, ANSI art,
- and RIP art.
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- STTS is dedicated to showcasing as many talents as it can, in all forms
- and genres. We have no general "theme" aside from good writing,
- innovative concepts, and unique execution of those concepts.
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- As of January 1st 1994, we've been PAYING for accepted submissions!
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- In a bold move, STTS has decided to offer an incentive for writers to
- submit their works. For each accepted submission, an honorarium fee
- will be paid upon publication. Premium access to STTS BBS is also
- given to staff and contributing writers.
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- In addition to the monthly payments, STTS will hold a twice-yearly
- "best of" contest, where the best published stories and articles in
- three categories will receive substantial cash prizes.
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- These changes took effect in January of 1994, and the first
- twice-yearly awards will be presented in the July 1994 issue.
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- Honorariums, twice-yearly cash awards, award winners selection
- processes, and Contributor BBS access is explained below:
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- HONORARIUM
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- Each and every article and story accepted for publication in STTS will
- received a cash honorarium. The payment is small and is meant as more
- of a token than something to reflect the value of the submission.
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- As the magazine grows and brings in more money, the honorariums will
- increase, as will the twice-yearly award amounts.
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- Fiction pieces pay an honorarium of $2.00 each.
- Poetry pieces pay an honorarium of $1.00 each
- Non-fiction* pieces pay an honorarium of $1.00 each
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- You have the option of refusing your honorarium. Refused funds will be
- donated to the American Cancer Society.
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- Staff members ARE eligible for honorariums.
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- * Non-fiction includes any feature articles, humor, reviews, and
- anything else that doesn't fit into the fiction or poetry category.
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- TWICE-YEARLY CASH AWARD
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- Twice a year (every six months) the staff of STTS magazine will meet
- and vote on the stories, poems, and articles that have appeared in the
- last six issues of the magazine. Each staff member (the publisher
- included) gets one vote, and can use that vote on only one entry in
- each category.
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- In the unlikely event of a tie, the winners will split the cash award.
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- Winners will be announced in the July and January issues of the
- magazine.
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- Anyone serving on the staff of STTS magazine is NOT eligible for the
- twice-yearly awards.
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- Twice-Yearly prize amounts
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- Fiction $50.00
- Non-fiction 25.00
- Poetry 25.00
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- The winner in each category does have the option of refusing his cash
- award. In the event of such a refusal, the entire sum of the refused
- cash awards will be donated to the American Cancer Society.
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- STTS BBS
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- Staff members and contributing writers will also receive level 40
- access on Sunlight Through The Shadows BBS. Such access consists of 2
- hrs. a day, unlimited download bytes per day, and no download/upload
- ratio. A regular user receives 1 hr. a day and has an download/upload
- ratio of 10:1.
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- Staff and contributing writers also receive access to a special
- private STTS Staff conference on the BBS.
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- LIMITATIONS
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- STTS will still accept previously published stories and articles for
- publication. However, previously published submissions do NOT qualify
- for contention in the twice-yearly awards.
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- Furthermore, previously published stories and articles will be paid at
- a 50% honorarium of the normal honorarium fee.
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- RIGHTS
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- The copyright of said material, of course, remains the sole property
- of the author. STTS has the right to present it once in a "showcase"
- format and in an annual "best of" issue. (a paper version as well
- as the elec. version)
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- Acceptance of submitted material does NOT necessarily mean that it
- will appear in STTS.
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- Submissions should be in 100% pure ASCII format, formatted for 80
- columns. There are no limitations in terms of lengths of articles, but
- keep in mind it's a magazine, not a novel. <Grin>
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- Fiction and poetry will be handled on a pure submission basis, except
- in the case of any round-robin stories or continuing stories that might
- develop.
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- Reviews will also be handled on a submission basis. If you're
- interested in doing a particular review medium (ie: books) on a
- full-time basis, let me know and we'll talk.
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- ANSI art should be under 10k and can be about any subject as long as
- it's not pornographic. We'll feature ANSI art from time to time,
- as well as featuring a different ANSI "cover" for our magazine each
- month.
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- In terms of articles, we're looking for just about anything that's
- of fairly general interest to the BBSing world at large. An article
- comparing several new high-speed modems would be appropriate, for
- example, whereas an article describing in detail how to build your
- own such modem really wouldn't be.
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- Articles needn't be contained to the world of computing, either.
- Movies, politics, ecology, literature, entertainment, fiction,
- non-fiction, reviews - it's all fair game for STTS.
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- Articles, again, will be handled on a submission basis. If anyone has
- an idea or two for a regular column, let me know. If it works, we'll
- incorporate it into STTS.
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- Writers interested in contributing to Sunlight Through The Shadows can
- reach me through any of the following methods:
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- Contact Points
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- CompuServe - My E_Mail address is: 73654,1732
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- The Internet - My E_Mail address is: joe.derouen@chrysalis.org
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- RIME - My NODE ID is SUNLIGHT or 5320. Send all files to
- this address. (you'll have to ask your SysOp who's
- carrying RIME to send it for you) Alternately, you
- can simply post it in either the Sunlight Through
- The Shadows Magazine, Common, Writers, or Poetry
- Corner conference to: Joe Derouen. If you put a
- ->5320 or ->SUNLIGHT in the top-most upper left-hand
- corner, it'll be routed directly to my BBS.
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- Pen & Brush Net - Leave me a note or submission in either the Sunlight
- Through The Shadows Magazine conference, the Poetry
- Corner conference, or the Writers Conference. If
- your P&BNet contact is using PostLink, you can route
- the message to me automatically via the same way as
- described above for RIME. In either case, address
- all correspondence to: Joe derouen.
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- WME Net - Leave me a note or submission in the Net Chat
- conference. Address all correspondence to:
- Joe Derouen.
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- My BBS - Sunlight Through The Shadows. 12/24/96/14.4k baud.
- (214) 620-8793. You can upload submissions to the
- STTS Magazine file area, comment to the SysOp, or
- just about any other method you choose. Address all
- correspondence to: Joe Derouen.
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- US Mail - Send disks (any size, IBM format ONLY) containing
- submissions to:
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- Joe DeRouen
- 14232 Marsh Ln. # 51
- Dallas, Tx. 75234
- U.S.A.
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