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- <<(*=-- DREAM FORGE --=*)>>
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- MAGAZINE
- -- The electronic for your mind! --
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- (formerly RANDOM ACCESS HUMOR and RUNE'S RAG)
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- DREAM FORGE
- Dream Forge, Inc.,
- 6400 Baltimore National Pike, # 201
- Baltimore, MD 21228-3915
- Modem: (410) 437-3463 (data to 28.8baud)
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- Publisher: Dave Bealer
- Managing Editor: Rick Arnold
-
- GUIDELINES for DREAM FORGE e-magazine:
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- forge, v.t.; from L. fabricari, to make, constuct; from
- _faber_, a workman, artisan.
- 2. to make by or as by this method; to form; to shape;
- to produce. syn. make; hammer; invent.
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- 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 3,000.
- Writer's guidelines for #10 SASE or download as DF_GUIDE.TXT. Sample
- e-copy and guidelines on dos disk for $1.75 with SAS(M)ailer.
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- 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;
- or INTERNET address: dforge@clark.net, 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.
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- 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.
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- NONFICTION: Humor, satire, essays, reviews, Op-ed, and political
- commentary from 1000-4000 words. Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing.
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- FICTION: Short stories most any genre from 1000-6000 words, longer
- works will be serialized, or considered for e-novel(la); accepts
- humorous short-shorts under 1,000. Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing.
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- POETRY: Any style and length will pay: $2-$20, plus profit sharing.
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- 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."
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- * OLX 2.1 TD * Thalia spoke of Melpomene, amusingly.
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- * Origin: RUNE'S RAG-Fantastic Fiction Freq: RUNER 412-LUV-RUNE (1:2601/522)
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