Basic Submissions Guidlines: This is a quick overview of our basic guidelines. See our fully detailed guidelines for each seperate genre on our Submission Guidelines website.
Status:
Buried Treasure is currently accepting submissions
Title:
Buried Treasure Magazine
Magazine Format: (projected)
Quarterly: 6″ x 9″, 96 – 132 pages per issue; 60 lb bright white paper, B&W text; 10pt glossy laminated perfect bound full color cover
Circulation:
world-wide though print on demand
Contact Info:
Wendy C. Allen, editor-in-chief, twighlightmanor@yahoo.com
Submission Format:
Send in body of email, 12pt Courier or Times New Roman or Send at attachment .RTF 12pt Courier or Times New Roman.
Payment:
copies only at this time; buys one time rights, (the right to print story in one issue; author retains copyright)
responce time: 2 – 6 months
Needs:
Short stories up to 13,000 words.
Literary Genre fiction. Cross-gen OK.
Rarely uses poetry. Poetry used only if it can be considered a full-fledged story, complete with characters and plot. Never accepts free-verse.
Genres Accepted:
Actition, Adventure, Fantasy, Gothic Romance, and Pirate Tales
Sub-Genres and Cross-Genres Accepted:
Action, Adventure, Alternate Realms, Alternative Histories, Amateur Detective, Americana, Ancient Civilizations, Animal Stories, Biographical Fiction, Christmas, Classic Literature, Colonial America, Cryptozology, Dark Fantasy, Dragon Tales, Easter, Ethnic Fiction, Espionage, Faerie Realms, Fairy Tales, Family Sagas, Fantasy, Folklore, Frontier Sagas, Furries, Ghost Ships, Ghost Stories, Gothic Romance, Halloween, Haunted Houses, Haunted Pirate Ships, High Fantasy, High Seas Adventure, Historical, Horror, Humor, Inspirational, Kung Fu, Literary, Mad Scientist Sci-Fi, Mermaid Tales, Military, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Paranormal, Pirate Tales, Psychological Thiller/Terror, Regional: Maine, Regional: Quebec, Romance, Serials, Short-Shorts, Slueths, Spiritual, Supernatural, Suspence, Thiller, Time Travel, Twilight Zone style, UFO stories, Unicorn Tales, Utopian Realms, Victorian, War, Westerns, Young Adult.
Things Rejected:
Rejects all stories that contain:
abortion, animal abuse, child abuse, cutting, death glorification, depression, depressive self-pity, drinking, drugs, elder abuse, erotica, expose`, gore, hatred, hunting, politics, pornography, sex, smoking, swearing, suicide, vulgar verbology, and stories about “how my teenage years were crap”.
WE DO NOT PUBLISH FAN-FICTION! DO NOT SEND JACK SPARROW STORIES!!! (Though we love characters and stories inspired by Jack Sparrow!)
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Stories must be family friendly and rated PG-13 or less
Poetry Needs:
We focus on short stories, thus rarely use poetry.
Sometimes accepts poetry, at best it’s only 4 poems per year, IF it tells a story and has strong characters. Same as fiction needs, seeks longer “epic length” story poems akin to Robert Browning’s Pied Piper of Hamlin, Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven or Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs & Ham. Prefers long rhyming poems with strong characters and a strong story plot.
Poetry Rejects:
Same as fiction rejects, plus: Does not accept free-verse poetry, haiku, short poems, poems without characters, poems without plots, meaningless ramblings, odes to…, poems without rhythem, or any other type of poem that does not tell a complete story from beginning to end.
Cover Art:
Usually done “in-house”, but well consider submissions of full-color photography or paintings, covering any genre. Always seeks beach and ocean themed photos or paintings. Do not send originals. Email files as atactment. Files must be compatible with MSWorks, MSPaint, or MSPublisher 97, .jpg files prefered. Note that we can not accept .tif files, our email treats them as a virus and deletes them. See fiction for needs & rejects list.One time rights.
Art & Inside Illustration:
Usually uses spot illustrations and copyright-free/public domain illustration, but well consider submissions of B&W, pen & ink, line art only … no pencil, no shading, no grey-scale, no color, our printer well not accept them. All illustrations must be 4″ x 6″ or smaller and camera ready. Do not send originals. Email files as atactment. Files must be compatible with MSWorks, MSPaint, or MSPublisher 97, .jpg files prefered. Note that we can not accept .tif files, our email treats them as a virus and deletes them. See fiction for needs & rejects list.
Advice:
Best advice: buy a copy of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribean DVDs. Watch them. Use them as though they were our Submissions Guidelines. Treat them as your Writer’s Bible. Use them to create believable characters. If you want to write mermaid/siren tales for us than consider Brian Froud your new best friend, buy a copy of Brian Froud’s Faeries. Use it as though it were our Submissions Guidelines. Treat it as your Writer’s Bible. Use it to create believable fantasy characters. Never go anywhere without it. Read everything he ever wrote. Study every painting he ever did. Watch the 2 movies written by Brian Froud: Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Read Treasure Island and Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, 20,000 Leages Under the Sea by Jules Verne, Sea Wolf, Tarzan, King Solomon’s Mines, and other such stories.
Buy yourself a copy of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa and Scrooge McDuck His Life and Times by Carl Barks. Than find copies of all stories written by both Don Rosa and Carl Barks. This is what we want to see: Family action adventure tales that read like something written by Carl Barks or Don Rosa. Let their tales of world travel, high seas, buried treasue, and lost civilizations inspire you.
Watch Pirates of the Caribean, Indiana Jones, all versions of Treasure Island, and other such movies. Let them inspire you. If your story would make for a good episode on one of them, than we want to see it!
We like to see strong characters. Character driven stories. Well written plots. We like fantasy realms, ghost ships, a race to find a lost treasure, and the discovery of ancient lost civilizations. Creativity is always welcomed. Pirates are always good, we need more pirates. There can never be too many pirates.
Always seeking stories about Mermaids, Sirens, Sea Dragons, Ocean Unicorns, or other watery creatures of the Realm of Fay. We like to see characters that Brian Froud would have created.
Let your imagination run wild.
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