then we tell them a story.

(Think immersive, 4D horror podcast experience.)

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For the next 25 minutes, they listen. They focus. They move through space and lose themselves. They feel. They smell. They touch.

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They scream.

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Then they laugh and play all of the weird games at our outdoor beer and wine bar. (Favorites = séance room and fire-able vortex cannon.) 

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But our victims want more. Specifically, they want more stories.

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Thus:

The Fear Garden: Volume I

(A companion anthology for our IRL haunted attraction.)

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60,000 words. 

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10-15 tales (3k - 6k words each) from 10-15 twisted brains on the bleeding-edge of horror.

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Paperback copies strewn about the little lounge spaces at our event. (And for sale at the bar.)

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Narrated versions loaded onto cassette tapes. (Headphone splitters = couples and groups listening together while they snack and sip.) 

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Scary story overload.

 

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Brass Tacks

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• Non-Exclusive First World Wide English Language Anthology Rights. (As soon as we publish the anthology (print or e-book), you're free to do what you like with the story. If we don't publish within eighteen months, all rights revert back to you.)

• Author always retains story copyright.

• Flat fee - paid on story acceptance - of $0.02 per word as a guaranteed advance against royalties.

• Royalties for as long as we publish / sell the book (indefinitely): Pro-rata share of the Author's share (50%) of the anthology's net earnings. (Pro rata = your share of the anthology's word count. Net earnings = sales revenue minus direct publishing / distribution costs. Net earnings don't include initial Kickstarter funding.)

• We'll use Amazon KDP to produce both paperback and e-book copies.

• Audio Performance Rights: we ask that you let us record a dramatic or non-dramatic reading of your story for inclusion in our forthcoming private podcast feed, which we'll only make available to select supporters, guests, and book-buyers. (We have no plans to monetize the podcast directly, but if that ever changes, we'll offer you a new contract for pro-rata royalties.)

• Possibility to Option: Each year, one of the stories included in our anthology will be the story that guests actually hear - live/experience - while in our haunted attraction. If your story is especially compelling and could lend itself to an immersive walk-through, we'll reach out with an offer to option your story as the soup du jour for our event the following year.

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Edited by B. A. Palmer, who's the Lead Writer for our event. He's a member of Codex Writers and SFWA, an affiliate member of Horror Writers of America, a 2018 Writing Excuses Retreat scholarship recipient, and a Hambidge Fellow. More here.

 

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Fin.

Writers: show us what you've got .