As part of the celebration of all things macabre and strange, Life is Amazing is teaming up with Will Sutton to celebrate the third year of his Square Tower (or should that be the Scare Tower?) event The Day of the Dead.
At this year’s Day of the Dead III readers will perform their stories that they have submitted to Will Sutton.
At Life Is Amazing, we will also be launching a separate collection of tales macabre, mysterious, dark and deadly. They will be drawn from some of the amazing performers who will appear at this event, and have appeared at previous events.
If you want your story / stories to be considered for The Day of the Dead book – you are invited to submit your story to our editor, Tessa Ditner.
Will Sutton is organising the Day of the Dead event, where pieces performed at the Square Tower will be up to 7 minutes long, that is, 1,000 words.
The book, however, will also contain longer pieces of up to 5,000 words.
If you have a scary story you think should be out there, dust it off and send it to Tessa on the following email address:
culturekiddo@gmail.com
Please give the subject line as DAY OF THE DEAD.
We are on a short deadline, with all stories for consideration for the book to come in before 28th July 2015. So send in your story.
How it will work
The book is not primarily a money-making exercise, but one in which authors will have the opportunity to be published in printed format, adding this to their portfolio. Whilst your story or stories won’t make you rich, you will get a cut of the profit from book sales.
You will assign to Life Is Amazing the first world anthology rights. This means that you will retain all other copyright, and that Life Is Amazing will not be able to use your story elsewhere without signing a further agreement. You will also be able to offer your story elsewhere, and include it in other collections, should you so choose.
All we ask is that the story you submit for the book has not been published elsewhere first.
Each author will receive a share of profits from the Day of the Dead book on a pro-rata basis depending on the length of their story or stories in comparison with the overall length of the book.
The publisher will take a 50% cut of profits in order to cover the costs of design, distribution and marketing.
Each author will receive one free copy of the book, and royalty payments for sales will be made once a year.