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  		   Posted 4/21/2007 8:40 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I've noticed that.  :-)   This is a very friendly place.
 
I'm not sure it I got the formatting right.  I followed the directions as posted--at least I tried to.  I'm a relative newbie as far as submitting goes and this is my first time to an anthology or using rtf. (Wow, that's a lot of new things. ;-) )  I did my best to format the story correctly and now will wait to see if I succeeded.)
 
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  		   Posted 4/21/2007 1:29 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
No worries. Any time you need a question answered, whether related to this anthology or not, there's always someone around who can answer it.

Did you get that rtf-formatting figured out?


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  		   Posted 4/20/2007 10:10 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ok, I looked around some more and finally found it.  I hadn't thought to look in the other anthology thread, but there it was. lol
 
There's sooo much to see and do on this site...I keep getting lost, and sidetracked. blush
 
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  		   Posted 4/20/2007 4:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi,
 
I've never submitted anything before so I have a couple of questions-and I'm having a little difficulty finding the answer on the site because I'm new here.  blush First.  Does there have to be anything special in the heading of the e-mail?  What information needs to be included with the ms and should it be on a seperate page?  Do you want the word count included?  What rights would I retain to my story, should it be accepted, and what rights belong to Ricasso Press?
 
Oh, and this may sound stupid, but I've never formatted anything in rtf.  How is it different from a regular word document? Hmm..maybe you should just refer me somewhere so I get all the margins and paragraph indents and such correct.  I thought I saw it somewhere, but now I can't find it.
 
Eagerly awaiting your response,  ;-)  
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  		   Posted 4/12/2007 9:14 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Where was that question again?

Seriously, though, the guidelines do not say this is a Ghandi-esque collection of non-violence. The exact wording is below, but for clarification: the violence should not be graphic. I'm not looking for Kill Bill-level action. There will undoubtedly be violence in these stories, and I have accepted several with it playing a major factor in the resolution of the plot's main conflict. What they do not do is splatter the pages with gore. Had they, regardless of the quality of the writing, they would have gotten bounced.

Regarding scenes with violence, from the guidelines...

"Suggest them to me; don't describe them in minute detail. I understand that when the knight is going toe-to-toe with the dragon there will be violence. What I am suggesting is that my preference is for tales that remark on "the sword slicing through the dragon's armor and spilling its fluids" and not 'the putrefying stench of its bursting viscera assaulting the knight's senses as bile splashes his face and arms.' "


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Christopher_Heath
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  		   Posted 4/12/2007 9:06 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Heron,

Re-read the post. Mr. Santa just doesn't want to be grossed out with overly descriptive phrases of the violence.

Christopher M. Heath
 
"Azieran: Savior in a Flask" in Mages and Mechanica by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Travelers Four" in Black Dragon, White Dragon by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: The Conquerors" in Chimaera Serials
"Azieran: Pawn of the Serpentine Witch" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media
"Azieran: Sentinel of an Ageless Reign" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media
"Azieran: The Lakeshorn Mirrors" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media 
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
"Azieran: Wyrd Sins" in Rogue Worlds
 
 + others
 
 
 
 

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  		   Posted 4/12/2007 7:11 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Hi, Heron here. 
 
I have a question on the 'Black Dragon, White Dragon' anthology 'no violence' caveat.
 
If by no violence, meaning zero harm comes to any characters either physical, mental, or emotional, there's not much left for conflict.  Falling off a cliff, getting a cut, getting knocked across a stone floor, going through a painful metamophosis, then being skewered by a sword would invalidate a story.  confused
 
 
 
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  		   Posted 4/11/2007 8:22 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It seems to be a good forum because it IS a good forum ;). Where there's smoke there's fire!

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  		   Posted 4/11/2007 8:18 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I couldn't resist registering on the forum, and then promptly sending a submission. I don't know why I registered, of course, other than this seems a good sort of place to be registered at.
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  		   Posted 4/6/2007 8:03 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I rarely write dragon stories, but I remembered a short old one, in which the dragon is a cross between SF and fantasy, I'm pretty sure.  So I've submitted Rocky Falls Park, which does have some violence in it.

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  		   Posted 4/2/2007 9:11 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thanks for stopping by the forum, Ian. I began writing when I was 16; please do send me something. I have a birthday milestone in October as well: 40.

Looking forward to reading your work.

Rob Santa


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Ian McEwen
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  		   Posted 4/1/2007 11:56 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
My apologies if this is a repeat question or the like: What's your policy on underage submissions (I am 17 at the moment; 18 in October)? I'd love to submit, but if I'm not actually eligible, well. I think the conclusions there are fairly clear.

Thanks.
Ian McEwen
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  		   Posted 3/27/2007 5:08 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ok, Just saw this (deeply involved in a move). Have an idea I will start on and hopefully finish when I get to NC.

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  		   Posted 3/22/2007 2:52 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Apparently it didn't suck, as Mister Santa accepted it for the book. Awesome seeing the ToC growing on this one and the company I am keeping.

Armand Rosamilia

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  		   Posted 3/21/2007 11:14 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Still working on mine; it's coming along, but it'll be a few days before I'm finished. At least I'm getting somewhere with this one, unlike the last couple I've tried to write.

Mike O.

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  		   Posted 3/21/2007 10:49 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Finished writing mine, just going to do a light revision before sending it out . . . and I do promise that there is some INTENSE combat in this one. :)
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  		   Posted 3/21/2007 4:02 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Finshed my dragon story this weekend, got some eyes on it to tell me what sucked, changed the suck parts, and just sent it off to the Esteemed Editor... now, fingers crossed and awaiting the reply.

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  		   Posted 3/12/2007 4:38 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Suuuhhhhweeeet! jumpin My first multisub!

Distant Passages: Volume 1
 
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  		   Posted 3/12/2007 4:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Go right ahead and send multi-subs. Works for me.


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  		   Posted 3/12/2007 3:29 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Rob Santa said...
Yes, I'd look at reprints. Please include the when and where.
Perfect! Dragon story on the way! In fact I got two! Multiple subs okay or would you want me to send them one at a time?

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  		   Posted 3/12/2007 2:12 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'll write one up for this eventually(kind of busy right now). I promise that it will be a serious work, too; I don't usually write comedy, and I can't write comic fantasy!

Robert Orme

Out now:
"On the Tree Top" in Ultraverse vol.3 #5 (www.ultraverse.us)
"The Scab, the Man, and the I.V." in Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review #3 (www.mountzionpress.com)

Coming soon:
"More Than One Way to Protect" in Lords of Justice (www.carnifexpress.net/blogs/)
"And Afterward" and "Candy Lover" in Flashshot, April 30 and May 23 (www.gwthomas.org/subscribe.htm)

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Ok Rob, you have email with my little short story attached to it. Sorry, but it's not a glorious battle scene either. Ah well.

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Dusting off a Freehold dragon tale that I wrote about fifteen years ago that I loved and doing the old massive rewrite on it this week... nice theme!

Armand Rosamilia

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  		   Posted 3/9/2007 12:52 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Go ahead and send reprints, regardless of any archival history. I'll make that call later if I have to.


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Rob,

I've got a reprint I'd like to submit, but the original is currently part of a permanent online archive for the original publisher. Would they need to take it out of their archive, or would it be alright just to include a 'originally published by' notice?

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