KZINE - Submission Guidelines
TYPE OF STORIES
Submissions should be crime, science fiction, horror or fantasy stories or a mixture of these genres.We are looking for very readable, original tales with well realised characters.
Length should be from 1,000 words to 10,000 words although shorter or longer stories will be considered if of good enough quality.
Stories should be submitted as attachments to an email to submission@kzine.co.uk.
If possible please format the attachment as TXT, RTF or DOC.
Stories must be in English.
REPLIES
The editor will reply with an acknowledgement as soon as he recieve the story. So if it's been a few days without response send it again, just in case.In the acknowledgement there will be an estimate for when to expect the decision.
The editor will try to give some constructive critisism of the story if it is not acceptable.
PAYMENT
We are afraid only token payment can be made at the moment, however if the rate increases in the future we will try to apply it retrospectively. So previously published stories benifit as well as new ones.Royalties of 1p per 1500 words per copy sold will be paid
An advance against royalties of £3 per 1000 words will be paid one month after publication.
So at least 450 copies would need to be sold before the author would start to receive any further royalty payments.
Advances and royalties can be paid by cheque in the UK . In other parts of the world Paypal or Amazon gift voucher may be more appropriate.
ARTWORK
The only artwork in KZINE will be the cover and currently no sumbissions of artwork are required.TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR KZINE STORY PUBLICATION
Kzine agrees to pay the royalties and advance as detailed below for accepted and published stories.The author must agree that the story is previously unpublished and once accepted agree not to allow publication in another periodical or anthology from acceptance until 6 months after the publication of the issue the story was in.
Copyright is retained by the author who grants permission fro Kzine to publish the story world-wide on electronic media. This permission covers one issue of Kzine in perpetuity. Any re-publication in another issue or other form must be re-negotiated between Kzine and the author.
Stories are taken in good faith and assumed to have been by the sender. Kzine will aid any official investigation into fraudulent use of an authors work sent in by another person, but is unable to accept responsibility.
Royalties are paid at the rate of £0.01 per 1500 words per copy sold. Advances amounting to the royalties from 450 copies or £3 per 1000 words will be paid one month after publication of the relevant issue.
Royalties over the advance amount will be paid annually.