ANTHOLOGIES
TERMS
AND RATES
Effective from 1st
December 2023
Fiction4All
has opened up a new series of anthology calls for
Horror and a separate series for Science Fiction and Fantasy..
Submissions
for novels and novellas, as well as single author anthologies or collections of
short stories, should be made through the Exclusive Author suite at https://fiction4all.com/publishing/publishing.htm
- you will need to become a member first as that is the basis for our
publishing software and royalty payment systems. We welcome new and experienced
authors who write in the genres show on the Fiction4All website.
Submissions
for our Anthologies are handled differently. On our Anthology Writers suite we
have special pages dedicated to our calls for anthologies. These pages show you
what we are looking for in terms of both subject matter and presentation. It is
essential all writers submitting to our anthologies follow the instructions - scripts
will be rejected if you do not.
Within
each anthology you are welcome to submit related stories that meet the open
call requirements. You will be required to join us as a member before you can
submit your first story. You will then need to follow online instructions
within the Anthology Writers suite to set up a basic author profile (pen name
and biography).When you submit your story, you will be asked if you want to
agree to our standard publishing agreement by digitally signing your
submission. If you agree to our standard agreement terms we will not issue you
a separate agreement if your submission is accepted, and we will procced to
include your story in the relevant anthology or a subsequent volume if you post
more submissions than we need for a given volume. This option cuts down on
paperwork and should make the whole publication process quicker.
If
you want a separate agreement and your script is accepted, then you will
receive a Publishing Agreement which will contain the final details for you to
agree and sign. Agreements will be sent out 2 weeks before publication of an
anthology. If we do not receive the signed document back from you before the
anthology is published, your work will not be included.
To
receive payment of royalties you must have a PayPal account, which you will
need to add to your member account. If you are overseas (not UK) then please be
aware that PayPal deduct a processing fee for any payment we make to you.
Fiction4All pays authors using PayPal either on a weekly or monthly or
quarterly basis (you decide) but you must have a minimum balance in your
account to receive payment as otherwise the PayPal charges swallow up most of
it! If you are in the UK we can also pay direct to a bank account. We do not
hold account details on file so will need to acquire them from you in due
course.
Terms
of Publishing
Your
submission, may be an original, unpublished work, or you can submit your story
as a reprint if you have the rights to do so from a previous contract or
because rights have reverted to you. You must be the sole author of the work
and your work must not contain any libellous material, any terrorist-related
content or any religious hatred.
We
initially check all submissions for readability. We will reject any submission
that is poorly written or which our editor finds unreadable due to poor
punctuation, subjects that are off-piste for the call submitted to, and
submissions that are not presented as required by the submission guidelines.
We
reserve the right to make alterations to any text without your permission on
the basis such changes will be for the purposes of formatting the script to our
in-house style, resolving any spelling or grammar issues and ensuring
characters and locations are named consistently. We will not change the story
itself other than for the above checks.
If
your submission is accepted into an anthology, we will publish it as an eBook
on our own sites, and on 3rd party sites including Smashwords/Draft2Digital
and Google Play. Smashwords/Draft/2Digital distribute to Barnes & Noble,
Apple and other sites on our behalf.
Provided
the completed anthology contains sufficient total word count (about 30,000 words
or more) we will also create a quality trade paperback edition of the anthology
using one of our own ISBNs. The paperback edition will be printed by
Ingrams/Lightning Source and be included in the Ingrams Global Connect
marketing catalogue - available to all online and bricks and mortar retailers.
You
will be able to buy the digital or print version of the anthology through the
Fiction4All website, as well as anywhere else we can get it listed. We operate a number of newsletters which advertise new releases - if
you subscribe to one of them you will be kept informed!
As
author you retain copyright to your work. As publisher we retain copyright to
the anthology for as long as it continues to sell. We will revert rights to any
anthology we take out of sale. The copyright notice within the anthology will
be listed to the Publisher and author will receive credit within the anthology
both as author of a particular title and there is scope at the back of each
anthology to include a short author biography for any authors wanting to be
included.
If
Fiction4All does not publish an anthology within 12 months of it being opened,
rights will revert to the author. Likewise Fiction4All may withdraw the offer
to publish at any time up to the date of publication and again rights will
revert to the author.
Royalties
As
of 1st December 2023 we do not pay a flat fee for accepted
submissions. We pay royalties of 70% of sale price for eBook sales and 50% net
proceeds for paperback sales, split between contributors according to the size
of their contribution within the anthology. This works on the basis of a pot of
available money which is created for each sale achieved and this is then
divided amongst the contributors based on the contributing word count compared
to the entire word count. It applies to sales on our own sites and 3rd
party sites where we distribute our books.
Stuart
Holland
Owner
of Fiction4All
