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     We are in serious need of submissions; give us a try! 
     Eager to work with new authors and inveterates; we accept Poetry.

   RUNE'S RAG -- Providing the Finest in Fantastic Fiction and Fantasy

GUIDELINES:

RUNE'S RAG, %ARNOLD'S PLUTONOMIE$, LTD., P.O. Box 243, Greenville, PA
16125-0243. Phone: 1-412-LUV-RUNE.   Managing Editor,  Rick Arnold. 
97.69421873% freelance written. A monthly international electronic 
magazine (save your tree), publishing the best in fiction, nonfiction, 
poetry, satire, reviews, religion, interviews, humor noire (anything 
relevant to readers). Bio given. Publishes within 3 months of acceptance. 
Reports in 1-2 weeks on queries. Takes first North American Serial Rights. 
Pays 90 days after publication, or sooner. 

PAYMENT: $2.00 per article, for lengths over 1,000 words.

Length: 1000-30,000 words prefer 2,000 to 5,000 words; will publish works 
over 20,000 words, and UNDER 1,000 words. Extremely large work will usually 
be serialized, or arrangements will be made to produce and publish the work
in Electronic Book form. We do not pay for poetry at this time, but should 
start soon.

     SUPPORT AUTHORS and the ARTS -- Subscribe to RUNE'S RAG!!!

TIPS: Send your ms(s) by modem, First Preference, to: 1:2601/522 
1-412-LUV-RUNE  Fax: 1-412-588-7863, should be same number (try it). 
Second Preference, Mail: Disk media: DOS 360, 720, 1.2m, 1.4m. in unarced
/uncompressed format, PURE ASCII text format on disk media. Place a
minimum of two copies of the work on disk. LEAST Preferred medium: 
paper, however, if the ms is around 1,000 words -- it will be considered 
-- we hate to perform data entry, but grudgingly do it! 

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Ensure you provide a contact BBS with Fido Node number for NetMail, or
other E-mail address, home phone and your Postal Address, and SEND/INCLUDE 
a SASE, *Especially* if you want * PAID *!!!  All ms(s) received will be 
considered disposable, if you want it returned include RETURN postage.
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LAYOUT: Standard submission format: flush left margin, ragged right,
with 65 column max right margin, blank line between paragraphs, spell 
checked, EDITED, and PROOF READ by YOU! Pure ASCII only, please. We do
virtually no editing to your ms, except for layout into the e-mag to
fit format needs. PURE ASCII text format, please.

Rights: Copyright of each separate contributing article is held apart
from the collective work as a whole, and vests initially to the author 
of the contributed article. The copyright holder of the collective work 
acquires the right of reproducing and distributing the contributed article, 
as part of the collective work, any revision of that collective work, and 
any collective work in the same series. 

IN OTHER WORDS: The Authors retain copyright to their work! And have only 
sold the First North American Serial rights for publication purposes.

 So dig out those moldy oldies, dust them off and submit.  The worst
thing that can happen is -- . . . ?  You may get published.

  This electronic magazine will attempt to remain a vehicle for new
authors to demonstrate their works to their most valued critic -- the
Reader. A semi-annual or annual may be produced in electronic and/or 
hardcopy form. The "Best of" will be marketed for sale, and the proceeds 
applied to continuation of this publication and payment to authors.

  I hope to obtain grant monies, as well as solicit from patrons of the
arts, so we may pay contributors a better rate. RUNE'S RAG will be released 
into as many bit streams as possible for the widest dissemination.                          
 
 RUNE'S RAG is a member of EPubNet, which supports Electronic Publishing.
For more information on EPubNet -- contact (via data) Rick Arnold @ 
(1:2601/522) 412-588-7863 or N.L. Hargrove (1:317/317) 505-865-8385.

