FICTION GUIDELINES 
Please Read The Guidelines Carefully
Submit: etherealgazette@gmail.com
quere: npacione@gmail.com

What am I looking for this time around for the eighth issue,  I am seeking horror stories and dark contemporary fiction with a supernatural horror charm behind them but at the same time I want touches of local urban culture thrown in for good measure.   Please try to avoid the vampire fiction cliches that are out there these days, or try to avoid some kind of zombie theme.  I will welcome a ghost story with open arms.
    Authors I published in the past were part of Weird Tales and one of them made it to Analog Magazine so I want bizarro fiction with elements of real life thrown in there.  I am trying to keep it a little safer with a new President in office.  Make the story as convincing as possible or if you come from a faith based background I am welcoming Weird Inspirational Fiction,  if you want to know a little bit about that movement of fiction talk to your nearest pastor about speculative fiction.   
    This is a rolling submission system as in I will take a story, but once in a while I will reject one or two because they don't fit.  I would like to see two African-American writers to ever one European one.  Think in terms of Tales from the Hood in terms of horror. Know your history when you write your story for this but it isn't a must. Have a working knowledge of mythology or the history of your area when you do  the short story. I wouldn't mind seeing a weird fiction story set in the suburbs since that is sometimes more of the weird shit is anyway.   
    I want to see more in the vein of Blood Son than Interview With The Vampire in terms of vampire.   It's more fun to read about that kid who wants to be a vampire when he grows up and in turn slitting his throat to feed a bat, than two oversensitive vampires.  Don't go overboard with the gore,  but I want just enough gore to help carry the story.  Sexual content is prohibited in any form,  and I don't want any erotic content what so ever.   
     If you write a Lovecraftian story, use the body of water around you if you live near large bodies of water. I want to see more watery deep type stories and watch a lot of MonsterQuest if you want ideas too of what I am looking for. I would like to see stories that could have been part of Reality Check: An Anthology of Horror. Play around with the Reality TV trend,  I just don't want any alternative sexuality in any form.  (Sorry I don't want to see any Poppy Z. Brite clones.)
   It helps to have read the magazines before contributing to the magazine,  so if you want to get one before contributing that helps too.    I don't publish fiction that is alt. romance so please avoid sending me these.  Horror with social commentary is fine just be careful how far you take the story,  I nearly got hung for doing a story with an anti-abortion yarn, but if you want to write stories with the anti-abortion slant I don't get enough of them. 
   I do look at occult horror yarns,  but I am trying to encourage other aspects of the paranormal too.  I want to see accident induced ghost stories or ghost stories done as a result of a natural disaster.   Or something caused by the ignorance of the Watchtower Society as in have the ghosts come back and haunt someone involved with the society; think how they'd discourage blood transfusions for the sick -- it's blood on their hands.  It's something to really have fun with there,  the ideas write themselves there.

Documents I will take:   .abw,  .odt,  .doc,  and .rtf   (the formate being .doc must be compatible with Word 2007 or Word XP format.  The others are open source word processors.)  

Word Counts:   2000 to 8800 words  (if you got something 9800,  okay) and 10K to 13K  (Don't get enough of these.) 

I want it sent in standard manuscript format with all information on the attachment

Name
Snail Mail Address
Email Address 
Paypal E-mail Address

I look for this so I can send the PDF or the CD-R with the completed magazine to the authors.   I pay at least $10.00 for a short story, but if it's a reprint I will pay only $8.00.  I want new and original works.   Avoid sending me poetry because it will come back not read.   Tabloid Purposes authors are prone to get a bonus for being in the magazine.   I am not a royality paying publisher unfortunately -- what you get is a flat rate and that's basically standard for a small press.  Don't indent the first paragraph of your manuscript.


Photo and Art guidelines

NOTHING Pornographic, and I will not take any kind of nudity.  Art and photographs will be printed as a black and white.

I do agree that some would go with the argument sex sells,  but this is a magazine more for horror and speculative fiction. What I say with the magazine is law.  If you want to be paid for your story you must have a PayPal account.


PAY RATES:  

Fiction will be looking at $15 but authors who were in Tabloid Purposes get an additional amount of cash and minimum payment is $10.00 for a short story and my reprint rate is $8.00.  You must have a paypal account to get paid.  International authors will get a .pdf copy of the magazine.   The authors will get paid $15 for their short story (this is effective after October 2007.)    There are no reading fees,  and authors will retain the rights to the story after publication since this is published with lulu.com.  It helps to get a previous issue of the magazine before submitting to the magazine.   This is flat rate guys  I am a one man show when it comes to publishing this magazine.   
       PDF copies of the magazine are provided by donations via Paypal,  since this is a one person show I wish I could pay more for stories but that is the best I can do guys plus oppertunities for book signings in the Chicago area if you live in Illinois.  There is a smaller submission window with issue six than other issues because this will be cutting into anthology break (what I call editing an anthology.)   Support the magazine by buying copies of it,  and that way if you are contributing to future issues you'd know what kind of stories  I want for it.


Ad Rates

I am taking ads for issues eight onward so my rates will be listed as such.   I will have three pages at the end of each issue available for ads and they will be the only part of the magazine that will be allowed to be photocopied and passed out.
     My rates as they follow for ads in the magazine.
     $25.00 for a quarter page. 
     $35.00 for a half page. 
     Promoters will get $30.00 for a full page and they must have their flyer ready for the event,  flyers will be published if the magazine comes out a month before the promoter's event.   Payment must be made by paypal.com, and they are in rotation issue to issue.   For a full page will be looking at $50.00.        
     People wanting their ads done must be in good standing with LAKE FOSSIL PRESS if they want an ad in the magazine.  When payment is received I will ask for the materials needed for the add if you have it all written down on a word and have the graphics to go with the ad I can put them together using the ad.   E-mail address I use for the ad payments are npacione@gmail.com and lakefossilpress@gmail.com.