Call for submissions
Originally published on July 19, 2013
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Daverana-Enterprises/398574250020
FOSSIL LAKE
An anthology of the aberrant
Edited by Christine Morgan
To be published in 2014 by Daverana Enterprises
What we’re looking for:
Short fiction, poetry, or non-fiction written darkly! Send us the indescribable, the transgressive, the controversial, the surreal, the darkety-dark, the gothic-as-hell! Traditional horror, horror targets, and stuff that could have come right out of a horror writer’s nightmare, or a metal album! Send us your “nods” to the genre’s greats! Send us arachnid domiciles, apocalyptic weather systems, obfuscated oculars, ghostly periodicals, intentions of scandal-sheets, archives of nameless dreads!
Are you a woman? LGBT? A fan-fiction hack? Conservative? Christian? Fine by us; we welcome authors of all kinds because, here, it’s the story that counts! We’re far less concerned with subject matter (even erotica, or extreme stuff like self-cannibalism!) than we are with good writing, a sense of humor, the ability to handle criticism and work with an editor, and just generally being personable and having fun.
Basically, if you’re reading this, you probably already have an idea of what we’re looking for, and why. Bonus points for stories set in, mentioning, loosely tied to, or in some way involving a ‘Fossil Lake,’ however you choose to interpret it.
Deadline: September 30, 2013
Word Limit: up to 5000
Compensation: comp copy, and 25% of proceeds to be distributed among contributors
Standard manuscript format preferred; Times New Roman or Courier 12-point
Send submissions attached as a .doc or .rtf to: christinemariemorgan@gmail.com
Cussedness Corner 
I am thrilled to be part of this project, very much looking forward to it! Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Deadline’s September 30th? 5000 word cap?
Okay. I’ll see what I can come up with.
My friend Lorna and I will each submit something too.
We are looking forward to it. Christine is an amazing editor and author.
Working on mine right now. I’m going to hit the reblog button and post it on mine as well.
Reblogged this on Scott E. Colbert and commented:
Definitely have to submit something for this! It’s going to be a lot of fun!
allo, um, how do I add into this?
I’ll enter something in for sure.
I’ll see what I can do
You have already paid me for “feeding mother”, and one other story. Use any of my work that you have freely. Just let me know.
Official submissions have already begun to come in! Very excited to see how this project shapes up!
And, to answer a couple of questions that have arisen:
1. Reprints? Sure, I am glad to consider reprints!
2. Pseudonyms? Of course, entirely understandable!
Feel free to contact me at christinemariemorgan@gmail.com!
— C.
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Fuck You! Get your fucking hands off my titles you fucking fan fiction writing hacks.
Wow! You do know that you cannot copyright a title?
Thank you for your interest in FOSSIL LAKE! Please direct all queries, regarding titles or otherwise, to christinemariemorgan@gmail.com!
I am very excited so many great writers are submitting to this. It is going to be a fantastic read! I will have a poem and a story or 2 in for review this week.
Nick- you are hardly in a position to be hurling insults. Ramsey clarified for all you produce fanzines.
All you write is poe, lovecraft, and matheson fan fic Nicky so if anyone is a ‘fucking fan fiction writer’ it’s you.
I can’t wait to see the finished book it’s going to be awesome!
My magazine is not a fucking fan zine. So fuck you Stinky Cat, you are a faceless cuntwhore.
Hi Nicky, come see me on Wattpad. Oh, did you get banned from there already?
Did you recently do a submission call asking for fan fic of your shitty stories nicky? liar liar pants on fire, you’re a fan fiction mag.
Melany the the only way I allow it is if they are respectful of my vision. If I was a fan fiction mag, I would not be permitted to work with lulu.com.
But it’s STILL fan fic. Or is that too difficult a concept for you to grasp with the whole ‘you can’t copyright titles’ concept?
Just a reminder, folks … we’re into September now, so, you have until the end of the month to get those submissions in!
I’ve received a lot already, and I can tell that this is going to be a very fun project!
My friend finally sent mine back with his suggestions of a few changes and corrections, and you’ll hopefully get it by the end of the week! 😀 Going to a draft horse show today so I know I won’t get it done today.
Excellent! Looking forward to it!
I’d love to submit, but the story I want to send is 6,500 words. A bit too long for this call, methinks.
Got busy the past few weeks but have more coming next week. Nikkiknobble will be so jealous he cannot produce anything so great. He must really think Lulu reads his cr@p.
Two weeks left! Send me those stories, folks! This is already shaping up to be pretty dang awesome!
Submissions are closed, responses have been sent out, contracts and edits are in the works! It’s shaping up to be a great book, and now we also have a FB page to keep up to date:
https://www.facebook.com/FossilLake