This page lays out the requirements for submission of stories to Sci-Fi-Cafe.com and the rules governing payment of royalties to published authors.

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS USING THE FORM BELOW.
These conditions form an agreement between the author and Sci-Fi-Cafe.com. Receipt of manuscripts from authors confirms that these conditions have been read and agreed to.

Format: Stories must be submitted in plain ASCII text for initial approval. If your story is very long, then you can just send the first 50 pages for approval, making a note at the top of the text of the word count of the full story and the fact that this is truncated. Once accepted a MS Word document of the full story may be requested.

Method: Submissions will only be considered via the form at the bottom of this page.

Length: Espresso Shots must be no more than 500 words long. The shorter, the better. Submissions to the bookshop may be any length. Long works may be split into volumes at the discression of the editor.

Content: Work must be of the Sci-Fi / Dark / Weird genre. Works of horror or other genres will sometimes be considered. Although mature subjects are welcome, content must not contain any gratuitously sexual, violent or otherwise offensive references.

Editing: The editor reserves the right to moderate work before publishing. Where significant modifications are proposed, the author will be consulted and will have the opportunity to negotiate edits or withdraw the work. It is always the intention of the editor to attempt to preserve the spirit of the author's work.

Acceptance: The editor reserves the right to reject any piece of work if it does not comply with the conditions set out in this agreement and also for any other reason without explanation.

Ownership: The author warrants that the works are their original creation, that they are free from any other publishing contracts, agreements or covenants that might conflict with this agreement.

Exploitation: The author agrees to grant, in perpetuity non-exclusive rights to sci-fi-cafe.com to exploit the work in ventures including but not limited to compilations, printed form, electronic distribution or development for other media. Copyright and moral ownership of the work will remain that of the author. The Author will be appropriately credited in all publications. Sci-fi-cafe.com will make what it feels is a fair but non-negotiable compensation to the author where the work is exploited in forms not specifically covered in this agreement.

Royalties

Calculation: Royalties are accrued from the date that the story is first published by Sci-Fi-Cafe.com or any of it's other partner publishers and distributors. Royalties accumulate at the rate specified in the currently accepted contract.
Espresso Shots are made available to the subscriber in compilations. A royalty will be credited to the author's account for each purchase made.

Payment: In order to receive royalties, the author must have a PayPal account.
Royalties accumulate in the Sci-Fi-Cafe.com website and will be paid automatically to the Author at the end of each month where the balance of the account is greater than £50.00(GBP).
The balance of account can be viewed as well as a history of all sales by logging into the Author page at www.sci-fi-cafe.com. The author will be given a username and password when their first work is published. Functionality and operation of this web feature may change from time to time and the author will be kept informed of any changes in functionality.
Possible charges for each transaction may be deducted by PayPal, are outside the control of sci-fi-cafe.com and are non-refundable.
The author's account will only be credited with royalties from CLEARED funds from partner publishers and distributors. Sci-fi-cafe.com cannot credit the author's account for sums that cannot be claimed from other parties should they become delinquent.

Royalty Tariff

Correct as of 14th July 2007 and refer to the sum payable for each sale of the work.

Espresso Shots: £0.05 (GBP) per Espresso shot published in each compilation.

Short Stories: 25% of net sale receipts from sci-fi-cafe.com bookshop, partner publishers and distributors.

Larger works: 25% of net sale receipts from sci-fi-cafe.com bookshop, partner publishers and distributors.

From time to time, sci-fi-cafe.com will hold promotions on certain products or change prices. The royalty will always be calculated at the prevailing price at the moment of purchase.

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