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Call for submissions: Read These Lips, Volume 6 (2012)
Read These Lips is a free e-book project dedicated to lesbian literature. In our sixth year, we are inviting submissions to our anthology series.
We seek multi-dimensional literary writings that speak the possibilities of lesbian lives. We feature popular genre as well as cross-genre works.
Submissions are being accepted through to 29 February 2012. Please read our Submissions Guidelines carefully, and our previous anthologies for guidance.
Early expressions of interest are encouraged.
All correspondence to submissions@readtheselips.com
SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES
- Each submission: Not more than 4000 words per entry. Not less than 500 words, or 1 page, except for poetry or graphics. However, if making two (2) submissions per author per anthology, the word limit is 4000 in total. Maximum of two (2) submissions per author per anthology, except for poetry.
- You may submit stories, poetry, verse, graphics…any genre that can be reproduced on paper.
- Submissions should have a lesbian flavour but may include anything LBTIQ inspired. New work preferred.
- Submissions should be in MSWord or RTF format or any text file to preserve format, but not in the body of an email.
- Enclose a short biography, picture and email contact with your submissions. Submissions without biographies will not be considered.
- Third party sources must be credited.
- You agree to provide your submissions free of charge to the anthology.
- You agree to our editing process. For more information see Behind The Curtain at our blog.
- Accepted entries will not be removed from the anthology once published.
- We are not responsible for any copyright infringement that may be caused by the use of your submission in our anthologies.
How the anthology works.
Our anthologies are published only in electronic format.
The anthology is distributed via the internet.
It is free to download and to share. It is not for sale.
Authors retain their moral rights, but once a submission is included in the anthology and is published, it cannot be removed.
IMPORTANT: Those who wish to submit to us or host or distribute our anthologies should be aware of our Terms of Use.
Another (big) ebook retailer
Google has been slowly pushing its ebook marketplace for a couple of years now, but it’s finally decided to have an Aust site. Um, why bother? I already get my books from other countries. However, these are E-books, a concept most Australians readers still aren’t enamoured with. Seems we likes ‘em physical and we have the bookstores to prove it. We’re also big online buyers. So despite the large price hike to get books here, there’s a middle virtual market for “higher than overseas but lower than bookstore priced books”. Depending on what you’re looking for, one can still head overseas or buy local, albeit a local online store.
Take 5: Read These Lips, Volume Five – now available
We’re delighted to be here in our fifth year, with a new and stunningly beautiful volume of Read These Lips. As with previous volumes, we will travel through all kinds of stories from lesbians with a point of view. We will discover and rediscover ways in which women connect—through identity, through pleasure or through shared experience—as we continue to relay lesbian experiences through our own literature.
We feel lucky to be able to receive and present more lesbian stories each year and with such variety. In Take 5, we welcome the entertaining and thought-provoking writings of Adrienne Fleming, Angel Propps, Deborah La Garbanza, Doreen Perrine, Elaine Burnes, Gill McKnight, Ina Bak, Joan Annsfire, J.E. Knowles, Lee Lynch, Natasha Carthew, Rachel Green, R.G. Emanuelle and Vanessa Stewart.
The gorgeous paintings in this volume invite you to take a moment to enjoy women and literature, together. The team at RTL wish you good reading.
Take 5 is available as a free e-book from www.readtheselips.com
Amazon will explode
This just in: Amazon will allow Kindle to be shipped to Australia now (and presumable worldwide later). I have a sinking feeling in my tummy.
A bigger marketplace for ebooks, yay!
Barnes & Noble, two steps away from considering voluntary administration, has flung up a new marketing plan that could turn the company around, though maybe not all their brick and mortar outlets.
As noted earlier, B&N bought Fictionwise, an already thriving ebookstore that had used the e-Reader application. Their latest press release announces a partnership with Plastic Logic – makers of tablet e-readers – and also applications for other portable devices as well as a new ebookstore. Dymocks in Australia has had a similar concept instore since 2008 with the iLiad reader except that its premise is limited and the device is horrendously expensive. Unfortunately, B&N are barring Kindles and Sony Readers from using their site. WTF.
B&N haven’t mentioned it but I assume free wi-fi and e-browsing will be available in their stores, and they won’t pull an Amazon control-freak grabback if something goes wrong with your ebook purchase. I also hope purchases won’t be limited to the US and Canada. In other words, they would and should treat ebook purchases as transactions with no strings attached.
Also Plastic Logic has been teasing us with their new tablet technology potential for ages. By the time they actually produce it for the market, I think the cost will be a tad high, and the screen still only in black and white. They better move faster.
Get yer ebooks here! Extra Extra!
Not an LGBT bookstore but Fictionwise under Barnes & Noble will now meet, and possibly beat, Amazon’s ebook prices.
[via DA]
