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 ~ HorrorMasters Submission Guidelines ~

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 General

Please note: All of these policies are being revised as of January 1, 2008. You may still register and submit stories, but we are currently re-tooling our approach.

We ask that each author submit five horror stories.

We allow submissions of previously published stories.  It is your responsibility to ensure that all submissions can be legally published by HorrorMasters.

Email all submissions as Rich Text Format (.rtf) attachments to Subs@HorrorMasters.com.  Only email submissions will be considered.  See the example "Email Cover Letter on this page.

One of your five stories will be a free sample.  This is to allow the typical internet user a chance to see whether you're good enough to pay for.  BTW, you'll be paid for revenues generated from banner ads based on the number of downloads for your free sample.  We will begin selling banner ads as soon as this website is sufficiently busy.  It is determined by a formula based on the monthly number of downloads for your sample(s).

Payment -- You will receive 80% of the revenue generated by your stories.  We recommend that you review the details of this process and please contact us if you have any questions (Questions@HorrorMasters.com).

We charge our readers:
$.10 for short-shorts (less than 1000 words)
$.25 for short stories (1000 - 7,499 words)
$.40 for novelettes (7,500 - 17,499 words)
$.50 for novellas (17,500 - 39,999 words)
$1.00 for novels (word counts of 40,000 or more).

This works out to $.03/word  for a 2500-word short story if it attracts 375 paying readers.

Checks will go out monthly to authors who have accrued at least $10.  We'll clear our books and send a check by mid-January of each year.

Instructions

  1. Register by filling in the Writer Registration Form on this page.

  2. Once registered, we will be able to give you credit for any payments on your stories.  You will also have access to the authors-only sections of HorrorMasters.

  3. Submissions should be emailed to Subs@HorrorMasters.com.  Please use the format shown in the Email Cover Letter on this page.  By submitting stories to HorrorMasters, you are agreeing to terms as posted in our  electronic contract.  We consider your registration and follow-up through email to be adequate evidence of your identity as required by recent legislation.  We will then process and post your stories at the earliest opportunity.

  4. It's up to you to define which sub-genre you associate with your stories.  We think we have most covered, but feel free to suggest more.  Most stories seem to be covered by the following sub-genres:  Dark Fiction (Dark Poetry and Special Themes), Ghost Stories (Ghosts, Haunted Houses), Gothic, Monsters (Animals, Mummies, Other Creatures, Scientific Horrors Vampires, Zombies), Occult (Satanic, Séances, Witchcraft) , Psychological Horror (Killers, Mental Powers, Psychological Problems), X-treme (Early Decadence, Goth, Splatterpunk). You probably already have a good idea of what these categories mean, but if you're looking for some guidance, here are a few suggestions.  There may be instances where you want to throw in a plot twist and the sub-genre would give it away.  For example, it may be important for the reader not to know that your main character is a vampire, but if the story is listed as a vampire story, there isn't going to be much of a surprise.  For cases such as this, we suggest that you use the category "General Horror".

Writer Registration

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  Check this box if you grant HorrorMasters permission to translate your submissions into other languages.  This will be automated and may not be a perfect translation, but may open up large new markets for you.

  Check this box if you grant HorrorMasters permission to sell your stories in a PDA format (for use on Palm Pilots).

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Email Cover Letter

  Name:
    Username:

  Submissions
  1.  Sample story title:
    Sample story sub-genre:
    Word count:
    Previous publishing credits:  

  2.  Story title:
    Story sub-genre:
     Word count:
     Previous publishing credits:  

  3.  Story Title:
    Story sub-genre:
    Word count:
    Previous publishing credits:  

  4.  Story title:
    Story sub-genre:
    Word count:
    Previous publishing credits:  

  5.  Story Title:
    Story sub-genre:
    Word count:
    Previous publishing credits:  

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