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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. 97.6% 
freelance written. A monthly international electronic magazine (save 
your tree), publishing the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, satire, 
reviews, religion, interviews (anything relevant to readers). . .  humor 
noire. 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. Pays $2.00 per article. Length: 1000-20,000 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.
We do not pay for poetry at this time; should change soon.

SUPPORT AUTHORS and the ARTS -- Send donations to RUNE'S RAG to ensure 
continuation of this publication; monies, hardware, and/or software is 
accepted and may be tax deductible -- contact your tax advisor. Or,
you can take a subscription to RUNE'S RAG, support electronic publications
and the SHAREware concept.

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. 

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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 proofed 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 serial rights for publication purposes.

 So dig out those moldy oldies, dust them off and submit.  The worst
thing that can happen is -- you could receive one more, but, highly
personalized rejection message.

  This electronic magazine will attempt to remain a vehicle for new
authors to demonstrate their works to their most valued critic -- the
Reader.  RUNE'S RAG is OUT_ware, a SHAREWARE concept, not Freeware, to 
the end user -- the Reader. If warranted, a semi-annual or annual may 
be produced in hardcopy form. The hardcopy issue will be marketed for 
sale and the proceeds will go towards supporting the continuation of 
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.

