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You
can contact us by e-mail at
webmaster (@) darkerpleasures.com.
Because of the backlog of material remaining from the Darker Pleasures
e-zine, we are not
publishing new paid
material at this time. We hope to begin accepting paid
submissions in mid to late 2013.
We are always accepting unpaid
submissions
and will give accepted stories
the same treatment and exposure we give all our
books--including cover design and creation, formatting and
distribution, promotion, etc. Authors of accepted stories will
also receive a Smashwords coupon code
that will allow limited distribution of any short story we
publish (as well as any anthologies in which they appear) to
friends and family.
If you wish to submit a story
for unpaid publication, please include a brief cover letter and resume
or summary of
your writing history. These say a lot about you, so it's in your
best interest to ensure they are as properly punctuated and written as
your work should be. Finally, make sure you follow the guidelines
noted
below.
A good
article to read about writing the kind of stories we publish is "How to
Sell Sex Stories" at Everything2.
Darker
Pleasures General Submission Guidelines
1. The subject(s) of the story must be female.
2. If breast
bondage and/or breast-oriented torture is not the primary fetish of the
story, it should at least be featured prominently with others.
3. Any extreme
or brutal torture must be with some level of the recipient's consent,
whether conscious,
subconscious, or
consensual non-consent*.
4. Torture
and/or bondage predicaments that depict scenes of permanent mutilation
(tattooing or piercing excluded) and/or amputation, excessive blood
play and/or
overly severe forms of bondage/torture may not be accepted*.
5. The
writers should do adequate research to ensure that the forms of bondage
and/or
predicaments used are ones that could reasonably and believably be used.
6. Stories
will not feature characters, settings or situations that derive from
other
copyrighted medium. (i.e. no readily identifiable characters or
settings from
literature, games, television and/or movies.)
7. Stories
will not feature celebrities, public figures or any person who may be
readily
recognized.
8. Stories
that have excessive grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors may be
rejected without review.
9. Formatting:
a. Microsoft Word if possible
b.
Times New Roman 12 point font
c. Single
line spacing
d. Paragraphs
indicated .3 indentation
e. Standard
punctuation as opposed to e-publication variations (i.e. double spaces
after periods, not single spaces, etc.)
10. Stories
must be approximately 5,000 to 10,000 words long*.
11. We prefer stories that are considered "erotica," in that they
should contain not only erotic sado-masochism or BDSM and sex, but
plot, characterization, and
style. That isn't to say we don't also publish pornographic
stories that lend themselves a lot more toward just the sex and BDSM,
but they need to be exemplary.
11. Stories including any of the following topics will be
summarily rejected:
a.
Incest (Sex between
relatives)
b.
Bestiality
(Sex with animals)
c.
Pedophilia
(Sex with children)
d.
“Snuff”
(The brutal murder of the “victim” solely for the murder’s sake)
e.
Necrophilia (Sex with
deceased persons)
f.
Excretory
fetishes (“watersports,” defecation, vomiting)
12.
In addition, there are other fetishes or practices that,
though they have a following elsewhere, are typically viewed with mixed
emotions at best by the general adult erotica reader or are out of our
particular
niche. As such, these topics should be avoided:
a.
Foot or body
fetishes outside of the breasts, rear and genitals.
b.
Victims/female protagonists
over the age of forty
c.
Heavily
overweight (BBW) victims
d.
Fisting
e. Non-consensual
penetration with non-typical objects (fruits, vegetables, sports
equipment,
bottles)
* Negotiable depending on story quality.
Please make certain all submissions are
properly spell-checked, grammatically correct, and professionally
punctuated. Your name or pseudonym should be a "real" name, such
as "Matt Nicholson," or "Jude Mason," not "Erotic Author," "masterman,"
slavegirl69," etc." Feel free to contact us if you have any
questions.
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