Taking Submissions: Utter Speculation Novella Series

Deadline: February 7th, 2024 Payment: A signing bonus and royalty split to be discussed upon offer to publish Theme: Stories that speculate about what is behind real mysteries and legends. Submissions Open November 7 and close February 7 If we don’t find what we want, we may extend this deadline or reopen submission later Please read and Follow All Guidelines Carefully or your story may be discarded without being read. Novellas should be 20,000 – 35,000 words Send a query with a story summary and a bio in the body of the email to: [email protected] Payment is a signing bonus and royalty split to be discussed upon offer to publish. Send full manuscript as a separate .doc or .docx attachment, Formatted in Shunn format style (Standard Manuscript Format) The Collection of Utter Speculation series speculates about what is behind real mysteries and legends. The stories must start with the known facts. They can be rooted in real world explanations or supernatural causes, but they need to answer the question, what causes this? Then they can go wherever you want them to go regarding genre, style and explanation. Our past anthologies have been broad. The Lost Colony of Roanoke, The Jersey Devil, The Lady in White, The Dancing Plague, and Cry Baby Bridge. Historical mysteries, cryptids, prevalent folklore and urban legends which people still claim to experience today. We are not looking for ghost stories or famous hauntings, unless they are specific and there is a mysterious aspect to them that can be speculated on. There are a lot of subjects we would love to see explored in a longer, more in depth format, and many subjects we haven’t even considered yet, including: The Bridgewater Triangle Sasquatch The Lost City of Atlantis The Mandela Effect The Pied Piper of Hamelin The...
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