15 January 2008
Guidelines
Oddlands Magazine has a relatively clear guidelines page. Read it. Follow it. I’m nicer than most editors, so instead of discarding submissions that don’t follow the guidelines, I give them a second chance to format things correctly.
Pay Rates
We pay 1 cent per word for fiction (counted by OpenOffice.org Writer). We pay a flat rate of $10 for poetry and art. We buy First Electronic Rights. We accept reprints for artwork.
We accept fiction and poetry that have not been previously published. This includes posting the story to a website that is accessible without an account and password. In some cases, we do accept fiction reprints but query for the details.
By accepting payment you acknowledge that the work was written by you and has not been previously published in any format. Upon payment you give First Electronic Rights publication rights, exclusive for two months, to Oddlands Magazine and permission to include your work of art, prose, or poetry in our archives for a minimum of six months. All other rights remain with the author.
How to Submit
Send your submissions to sub (at) oddlandsmagazine.com. Format your story in the plainest text possible, do your own italics, attach as a RTF file. Make sure you write it up in Openoffice.org because then I can be sure it looks right. I do not like receiving good stories that are formatted in an unpleasant way. Also, post the story or poem into the body of your message, too. If you do not then I will discard your submission.
Include your name, pen name (if using one), story or poem title, genre, and word count at the beginning of the message. In the subject line type Poetry/Fiction Submission <Story Title>. Feel free to include a short bio, written in the third person, in the message.
We accept fiction up to a length of 5000 words. Poems may be no more than 50 lines. These length are negotiable, to a degree. Send questions and queries to editor (at) oddlandsmagazine.com.
No multiple submissions (except for poetry). No simultaneous submissions. Submissions that do not follow these rules will be discarded.
2 Comments currently posted.
Jim Hartley says:
admin says:
Jim, I have addressed tu problema tan mucho como yo puedo. Excuse my Spanish.
I don’t understand your request to format stories in Times New Roman and THEN paste into the body of an e-mail. **ALL** my e-mail goes out in the standard e-mail font, some variety of Courier. In fact, once I convert a file to TEXT for pasting, it loses all the formatting info, including the font. No matter what font I assigned in my word processor, it vanishes and everything from that point is “fontless,” it just uses whatever is set for the editor, e-mail program, etc.