THE WRITER'S GALLERY SUBMISSION POLICY (available at: http://www.writersg.com/std.htm) =========================================================================== Please read this submission policy carefully. Include answers to the questions below, as well as a biographical paragraph with your submittal. Failure to do so will result in automatic rejection. DO NOT WRITE TO ASK ABOUT YOUR WORK. If your work requires editing that we don't feel we can do without your input, we will write you an email. You must respond to that email within 1 week after we send it or we will simply delete your submission and move on to the next. If and when we decide to post your work, you will see it online. That is the only notice you will receive. Keep watching in for your work to appear at: http://www.writersg.com/whatsnew.html ========================================================================= TERMS We will copyright the work placed on The Writer's Gallery. All rights are shared between the Writer's Gallery and yourself. Our copyright is only valid for work that is online and no rights apply to work not online or not visible to the public via the web or ftp. The intent is to protect your work from being used by someone else, and if you get some form of pay for that work online, we want to make sure we both get our share. Once the work is no longer online, all rights return to you in total. If you wish to only grant a portion of rights, then be specific in your reply. We are very flexible and only wish to protect you from theft of your intellectual property, and of course to retain our ability to collect a royalty from the work. If we produce a hardcopy or other more permanent medium, we will re-negotiate. These terms do not apply to anything but the online work. If you are not familiar with your rights to intellectual property, we recommend you familiarize yourself with those rights before making an agreement with us, we take no responsibility for your education into your rights. If you choose to remove your work, we will do our best to comply within one week. This does not, however, mean that if you get an offer for a piece of work online, that you can remove the work and then take pay in order to circumvent our agreement. We are not agents for your work. We will not go out and solicit anyone to publish this or any other piece of your work. If we are notified someone wants to use your work, we will make all attempts to forward that contact onto you personally, and let you handle the details. If the work is to be placed at another location online temporarily, we require that you notify us, so we can link to that location, and that the new location provide a link to our location. Permanent re-location or co-location will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis, or of course you can ask us to remove the work entirely from The Writer's Gallery on a permanent or temporary basis. The Writer's Gallery will hold onto your Email with your agreement to these terms and the percentage. We suggest you do the same. It has been suggested, and we are looking into the possibilities of, producing a collection of some of the works on the Writer's Gallery. This would be a hardcopy printing, most likely in paperback from. We also have had queries on producing a CDROM. These would be a separate arrangements, and not covered by the terms of your online publishing.To move forward on this idea, however, we need to have an understanding as to which works we COULD choose from, so let us know if you are amenable to allowing us to include your work in our planning at least. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - QUESTIONS (Must be answered in an email with your submission) 1. Is the work based upon real events and/or people, a fictional representation of some real event(s) and/or people, or is this a story that has been related to you by someone else? 2. Is the work your own work (you'd be surprised how many times people send us their friend's work with the correct name of the author but without asking for their friend's permission to send it along). 3. Are you an adult thus able to make your own financial decisions (this is cuz we get subittals from minors who write so well we can't tell their age)? 4. Do you agree to our copyright statement? 5. If someone wants to also publish online the work we have placed online will you share part of any payment you receive? 6. What is that percentage you are willing to share? Percentages tend to range between 1 to 25%, with the average at 6%. 7. Would you allow us to use your work in planning for a Writer's Gallery Collection hardcopy or CDROM (we will ask you specifically if that time comes, but we need to know now for planning purposes)? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We reserve the right to publish your work online or refuse. Our judgement is made upon the sole considerations of the editor(s) and will certainly be subjective and personal. Work not published online will be deleted and unavailable to anyone on the World Wide Web. We make no committment to read, review, or edit the work submitted, as we have limited resources. We will however, post work at will, with your submittal being all the permission we need to do so. If you do not agree with editing made online, we will of course honor your requests, however, we reserve the right to remove the work if we cannot come to agreement or you request edits we cannot or will not make. If we do not agree on edits for work we have posted online, we will honor your request to remove the work within 1 week. Michael G. Crawford Chief Editor The Writer's Gallery Submit work to: newauthor@writersg.com