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CHIMERAWORLD #4
OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS UNTIL END SEPTEMBER 2006!
to be published by Chimericana Books, Xmas 2006. I'll be reading submissions through 2006. Deadline is end September 2006 - I will read no more submissions after this date.
Here's a nice Christmas present for you and yours. A book about car-nage. We all need a car nowadays, right? We've all read (Stephen King's) Christine? Have any of us read (JG Ballard's) Crash? We've all been taken on long car journeys into unknown territory.
So, what is this year's Chimeraworld about? It's about the theme CARS and the theme DEATH, hence the subtitle 'all cars must die'. It's about car-lust, it's about car-warfare, it's about car murder, car revenge, car conscience... But we don't understand your guidelines Mr Philbin, can you make them any clearer? Well, I can try.
The thing I hate about life in the twenty first century is that we're driving around in gas-guzzling cars that are eating up the world's resources and are, technically, the same as the Model T Ford from the start of the twentieth century. 4 wheels. Chassis. A noisy, polluting engine. Traffic jams. Cars are the true horror of modern living (there is no alternative). People are born in cars, grow old and fat in them: people die in their cars. The world passes them by; unknown, unnoticed.
To further elucidate, here's a story I wrote (back in the Hertzan Chimera days) called GETAWAY GIRL where people literally grow up to be cars. This has many of the apocalyptic elements and general strange-ness I'd like to see in Chimeraworld #4 submissions. Make me travel sick with your twisted submissions - drive me to distraction. LOL.
Chimeraworld #4 will contain 23 stories and be published in trade paperback through Chimericana Books. Word count: 2,000 - 4,000 words, strict. Payment: $10 advance on 50% equal profit share. Reprints: no. Esubs: only. Format: Microsoft Word .doc or .rtf. Font: Times Roman, 12 point, single space. Add postal address, email and word count to first page. Add 50-100 word bio after THE END.
submission email: mike @ hertzan chimera . com (remove the spaces) - deadline end-September 2006.
(Mike Philbin, editor for Chimericana Books)
all cars must die
