Welcome to this week’s installment of The Never-ending FAQ, an evolving adjunct to our Submission Guidelines. If you have a question you’d like to ask about Stupefying Stories or Rampant Loon Press, feel free to post it as a comment here or to email it to our submissions address. I can’t guarantee we’ll post a public answer, but can promise that every question we receive will be read and considered.
Today’s question has come in from so many different people and in so many slightly different variations that I don’t have space to list them all here. In fact, I don’t even have the space to post the full answer here, so I’ve consolidated all the questions and answers into a file you can read online or download to peruse at your leisure.
The basic question is:
“Do you have any specific formatting requirements for submissions?”
The high-level answer is that at this time we do not have any specific requirements we adhere to with merciless dogmatism. However, we do have some Guidelines and Best Practices that, if followed, will help your story rise above the common mass of slush pile submissions, here or anywhere else. You can read them here:
Manuscript Formatting 101 (PDF)
If you’re looking for an example of these best practices in action, you’ll find it here.
Manuscript Formatting Example (PDF)
If you want to download the example and play with it, you can do that, too. (We think. This is a first for us. It hasn’t been thoroughly tested.)
Manuscript Formatting Example (.docx file)
Once again, thanks for asking. Any more questions?
Kind regards,
Bruce Bethke
Editor, Stupefying Stories
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