New Thrilling Fiction Guidelines

We've implemented new, more specific guidelines for the fiction manuscripts we receive at Thrilling Detective. Here are the highlights:

We like our manuscripts as readable as possible. Please stick to the following matters of form, or we may not read your submission:

• In the upper left corner of the first page, provide:
  
  1) Your Real Name
  2) Street Address
  3) E-mail Address
  4) Approximate Word Count
  5) Your Word Processing Program and Platform (PC or Mac)
  6) Date of Submission

• Skip a few lines and provide:
  
  1) Title of Your Story
  2) by (The name you wish to appear in print)

• Skip a few more lines and begin the body of your story. Set your story in an easy-to-read 12-point font (preferably Times New Roman or Courier New), double-spaced, with normal paragraph indentation.

• You are expected to proofread for grammar, spelling, and punctuation BEFORE submitting. Ideally we should be doing less copyediting so as to focus on problems of plot, character, structure, narrative flow, etc.

• PAYMENT: We're only paying $10.00 U.S.(via cheque or PayPal) for a first run story, an amount hardly likely to impress your bank manager (or even the kid next door with the lemonade stand). But it does mean your work will have been published on-line and available to the world, and you will have received financial compensation for it.

• Please submit only one story at a time. Don't submit a second story until you have received a response to your first.

Read the full guidelines here.