Utter Speculation Novella Series Opening November 17
Please read and Follow All Guidelines Carefully or your story may be discarded without being read.
The Utter Speculation series speculates about what is behind real mysteries and legends. The stories can be based on facts or complete fiction. They can be rooted in real world explanations or supernatural causes, but they need to answer the question, what causes this?
When a mystery cannot be solved, an author can speculate.
Stranger Things is a wild speculation on the Philadelphia Experiment. The Terror is a speculation on The HMS Terror Arctic Expedition that is much closer to the truth. An American Haunting is a speculation on the Bell Witch legend. These are the kind of stories we’re looking for.
Novellas should be 20,000 - 35,000 words
Include a query with a story summary and a bio with the full manuscript.
Formatted in Shunn format style
We'd really like to see more paranormal speculations on famous ghost stories, UFO encounters, and shady experiments.
Use QueryManager to submit your story.
https://QueryTracker.net/query/SpecPub
To submit to the query manager you need to upload your complete manuscript, .doc and .docx files, formatted in standard Shunn Format, (double spaced, times new roman ect)
Have your name, word count and email at the top of the story document.
Format files with the project title, story title and author name in the name. For example : UtterSpec- Pontefract Boogaloo- DeLancy
CLOSED - Winter Lore Book 3: Aurora: Tales of Winter Dreams:
Word count 2,000 to 6,000
Pay: $20 for original fiction
$10 for poetry
$5 for reprints
$5 for short articles, poems and spells on winter rites, traditions and rituals
Payment and a contributors copy
Paperback for US residence
Ebook for Non-US residence
Please read and Follow All Guidelines Carefully or your story may be discarded without being read.
Use QueryManager to submit your story.
https://QueryTracker.net/query/SpecPub
To submit to the query manager you need to upload your complete manuscript, .doc and .docx files, formatted in standard Shunn Format, (double spaced, times new roman ect)
Have your name, word count and email at the top of the story document.
Format files with the project title, story title and author name in the name. For example : Winter Dreams- Booger Nights- Jensen
NO AI ART OR STORIES WILL BE ACCEPTED.
PLEASE NOTE: We have revised our submission standards. IF SUBMISSIONS DO NOT FOLLOW ALL THE GUIDELINES THEY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED WITH NO RESPONSE. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO WORD COUNT, NAMES ON THE SUBMISSION FILE AND DOCUMENT AND FORMAT. We believe that your story is great, but if you can’t follow guidelines, we are not interested.
CLOSED: VAMPIRE HUNTERS: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts