Greetings Babbagers!
Today we’re officially announcing Tales of New Babbage, Volume 3!
For those of you new to town, the Tales project is an ongoing effort to publish short stories written by Babbagers and about Babbage. Volume 1 was released in December of 2011 and Volume 2 in December 2012. (Some say each volume is better than the last…)
We crowdfund (pre-sell, really) our initial publication charges and promote it ourselves online and at steampunk festivals. Any proceeds in excess of costs go to Tenk and the City’s rainy day fund.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Anyone (resident or otherwise) is welcome to submit a story (between 600 and 7,500 words) related to or set in the city somehow. It doesn’t have to be a new one (although they would certainly be welcome), but it shouldn’t be one that appeared in the last volume. [Note: please ask Canolli Capalini for guidance in submitting stories previously submitted to the Flash Fiction contest she runs every year.]
If your story is selected, you’ll be asked to sign a brief copyright agreement that allows the piece to appear in the anthology. (You’ll retain all other rights.) That document needs to be signed in your own name (avatar signatures aren’t recognized by courts yet), but we promise to respect avatar anonymity. If your submission is accepted, you get a complimentary printed copy of the book, the satisfaction of knowing you perpetuated the City’s legacy, plus the bragging rights of being a “published” author.
Mr Tenk, Bookworm Hienrichs, and Junie Ginsburg have agreed to help review, select, and edit the stories that will appear in Volume 3. The deadline for submissions is SEPTEMBER 2, 2013 (Labor Day, for those of you in the States). Please send them to submissions@babbagefictionpress.com
Please let me know if you have any questions: cleanslate@babbagefictionpress.com!
Already writing! can’t wait to read the next collection
Is the the inter-related chapter-y one?
No, this is the short story anthology as the past 2
Will there be another Kickstarter fundraiser? And will there be posters made so we can promote it inworld?
Bump! A month and a bit to go. Wrangle your muses into order and get writing!
Are there muses in Bump? Who knew.
Not really the kind of muses one would wanna associate with; tentacled, squidlike, fish-faced. Generally unpleasant.
*contemplates pickled muse*
just submitted mine …let me know if it showed up, it always gets lost in the aether for some reason.
Submitted to submissions@babbagefictionpress.com as a google doc and as an attachment. Let me know if it didn’t show up.
This one is unicorn approved!
Story submitted in Word format, fingers crossed!
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
We’re at about half of what Volume 2 contains, so keep writing, folks! We’ll keep the deadline open until we get enough for publication.
Yay!
ooh, second story to submit! have to start writing! Come on people, time to get published!
currently at about 40k. that mean 2/3 there!
Can’t reply. Busy writing.
Hey folks, there was a submission that made scenes from Caledon and Steelhead as major parts of a story, and after much discussion, Miss Ginsburg and I agreed that this was probably a very bad idea (among other things, there are copyrights involved).We didn’t reject the story, but the author agreed with our reasons and took it back for a rewrite.
So, please don’t reference other SL estates if you don’t absolutely have to. They would be distant and far lands, if they existed at all, in “our world.”
right, that’s enough doublethink for a sunday evening. back to our regularly scheduled programming…
Oh maaaaaaaaaaaaan. Um, so, can we just refer to them, not have settings in them, or is that verboten as well?
As Tenk mentioned, there are copyrights involved. Also, non-SL / non-Steamlands readers won’t have any frame of reference for those places anyway, it could be anywhere. It would be good to replace those names with fictional places.
Sorry to be difficult!
passing references, possibly, for example, steelhead lumber, educated in caledon…. but going much beyond that it starts getting into meta/game mechanics. safer to make something up.
So Pangnostic University in North Ada will have to do.
while i’m thinking about it….
the submissions that stand the best chance of being rejected or sent back for rewriting are the ones that suffer from “Roleplay Report Syndrome.”
its sort of like being forced to watch your next door neighbor’s vacation slides. all 9 carosels worth. if you are too young to know what that means, be happy.
My Grandparents had tons of slides, and funny enough as kids loved to look at their old vacation slides.
grampa’s slideshows were great.
dad had no concept of self editing when he invited the neighbors over.