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"Where reality becomes a dream & dreams become reality."
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OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine
United States
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Moonsnails Magazine's Interests
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Finding new talent to publish.
Finding products and services to advertise to our readers.
Seeks stories that are simalar to the following types of music, movies, television, and books:
Genres:
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Classic Horror
Disney Animation
Murder Mysteries
Romantic
We are open to most any genre. Esp. interested in seeing fantasy and sci-fi.
I am questioning or rather thowing around the idea of expanding into starting a live theater, by the same name: Moonsnails. Any thoughts on that?
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Can you write stories that sound like they should be Wicked Good Band songs? Yes? We want to see them!
Have you got characters that remind you of C*C*DeVille, Alice Cooper, or David Bowie? We'd love to see them.
Do Danse Macabre, The Hall of the Mountain King, or Night on Bald Mountian inspire stories of goblins, faeries, and trolls? We love those kinds of stories.
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Our Fave Movies:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Phantom of the Opera (1989)
Phantom of the Opera (2005)
House on Haunted Hill
The Pit and the Pendulum
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Theater of Blood
The Princess Bride
Sleepy Hollow
Secret Window
Pirates of the Caribian I & II
Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy
Harry Potter all 4
Them
The Duel
Indiana Jones
Star Wars
Conan
Matrix
The Addams Family
The Patriot
Braveheart
U-571
Monster House
Musicals:
Scrooge
Oliver!
Brigadoon
White Christmas
The Music Man
The Sound of Music
1776
We seek stories that our fave actors would want to star in should they become a movie:
Our Fave Actor:
Vincent Price
Other Actors:
Johnny Depp
Tom Baker
Alan Rickman
Peter Lorre
Jeremy Brett
Cary Grant
Bela Lugosi
Anthony Hopkins
Jim Carrey
Christpher Llyod
Harrison Ford
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Seeks stories that would have been accepted to become episodes on one of the following shows:
Our fave Classic TV:
Columbo
X-Files
Xena
Star Trek the original series
Twighlight Zone
Outer Limits
Amazing Stories
The StoryTeller
Dark Side
Night Gallery
Tales From the Crypt
Man From Uncle
The BBC:
Dr. Who esp. Tom Baker
Sherlock Holmes Jeremy Brett
Keeping Up Apperances
Red Dwarf
Black Adder
Local Shows:
The Red Green Show
Cartoons:
*Darkwing Duck
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
Smurfs
Speed Buggy
DuckTales
Donald Duck Shorts
Spy vs Spy
*NOTE:
We esp. seek stuff in the style of the mystery~super hero vs super villain type stories of Darkwing Duck
TV Mini Series:
Horatio Hornblower
Merlin
Rose Red
Thorn Birds
10th Kingdom
Zorro's Fighting Legion
The Undersea Kingdom
The Phantom Empire
Wives and Daughters
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Moonsnails Magazine's Details
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Old Orchard Beach | | Zodiac Sign: | Leo | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Occupation: | publisher; editor; writer |
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Moonsnails Magazine's Networking
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Publishing - Writer - Other
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Seeking writers of short genre fiction, all genres 500 words up to 13,000 words. Esp. seeking fantasy, sci-fi, & romance for teens/young adults. (Stories rated PG-13 or less: No erotica, sex, hate, porn, suicide, or vulgar language please).
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Moonsnails Magazine's Companies
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Twighlight Manor Press
Old Orchard Beach, ME US
owner
publishing house: books & fiction magazines
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est. 1978
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Moonsnails Magazine
Old Orchard Beach, ME US
publisher; editor; writer
sci-fi, fantasy, spec fiction magazine
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est. April 2006
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Buried Treasure Magazine
Old Orchard Beach, ME US
publisher; editor; writer
action, adventure, pirate fiction magazine
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est. Sept. 2006
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In fall of 2005 Twighlight Manor Press announced that it was planning the release of a new magazine, which at that point was untitled and it‘s genre unknown. Our original idea was to keep it local; local writers, local sales, local flavor to the stories. Market research, however showed us that that would be a very unprofitable venture that would doom our magazine to failure before it’s fifth issue. We had to rethink out plan.
Over the next several weeks we threw around ideas and finally decided that the magazine would be a fiction “literary journal”. At first we planned on “all good fiction”, but than after studying the market, realized that this was virtually a bottomless pit, that would result in more manuscript submissions than our tiny staff of four would be able to handle.
Another thing we decided early on, was that, we wanted to stand out on bookstore shelves. Looking at other magazines sold at a local bookstore, Nonesuch Books in Saco, I discovered something. Rack upon rack of magazines, where all the same: 8x11” glossy and flimsy issues, that would not stand the test of time on a bookshelf, given them a shelf life of just 3 weeks. (This short shelf life was according to a study I found online.) According to that study, only a few magazines would be shelved and saved to be read again and again for several years. These magazines had good content and a sturdy binding. I went to Nonesuch Books looking for magazines with good content and study bindings, and was amazed at how few there actually were. In the end I found only three, out of the hundreds of magazines the shop had on the racks. By the end of this stage in our study we came to one conclusion: this magazine, was NOT going to be a 8x11” glossy; instead it would read like a book, with crisp white paper and a square bound “paperback” cover.
After some more market studies, we came to the conclusion that rather than focusing on fiction in general, we would instead use the same rule we use for writing: Write what you know. In our case it would translate into: Publish what you read. All four of us are sci-fi buffs. Sci-fi movies, sci-fi TV, sci-fi comics, sci-fi books… well it seemed only natural that we would thus choose sci-fi as the genre for the new magazine.
By January of 2006 we had a pretty good idea of what we wanted to do with the magazine. On Space Dock 13 (the website) we announced that the magazine was a defiant go, and we were planning it’s release later that year.
With our genre in mind, we set out the name our new magazine. After several weeks of debate, only one thing was agreed upon: that the magazine must have a sci-fi sounding name and that it should reflect our local home base, namely that we are on the world’s most beautiful beach: Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
In April 2006 we introduced the world to two new websites. The first was the message board for writers: A Writer’s Desk. It was our hope that through here we would find new talent seeking to be published in our magazine. A message board built entirely to promote the magazine, today it stands on it’s own and has no connection to the magazine at all.
Our second Website was of course the homepage for our magazine. We had finally decided on a name, and that name was: Moonsnails. After a walk to the beach that cold April, me and my three brothers returned home with tote bags filled with Old Orchard’s most beloved seashell: the Atlantic Moonsnail. Later that day, while sorting the shells on the lawn, it hit me: Moonsnails was the perfect name for our magazine, it kept the local flavor and it sounded sci-fi. Later that week Moonsnails homepage went online.
By the end of April 2006 we were getting quotes from various printers, both local and online. Announcement went out with the news that Moonsnails would see its public release in September of 2006. We were off and running, and than came May 9, 2006 and the flood that washed away all of our plans, destroying everything we owned and bringing Twighlight Manor Press to an instant standstill. We lost everything, the building was condemned, and nothing survived. As far as the business was concerned, we were back at ground zero.
That same day, as a result of the flood, my dad went into a coma. In July of 2006, my dad awoke from the coma and returned home disabled and in my care. In September of 2006, instead of releasing Moonsnails, we found ourselves in the midst of fight to save our land from a local land shark. The result was my dad’s return to the hospital.
September of 2006 came along without seeing the release of Moonsnails' premier issue. During this time we realized that a sci-fi/fanasty magazine alone was not going to be enough. We also wanted a second magazine that focused on Action, Adventure, and Pirates, and so wheels were set in motion for a second magazine: Buried Treasure. Useing a public computer at the local library I continued to build the Moonsnails web site and began building the Buried Treasure web site.
In October of 2006, a fire swept through. What little we had that survived the flood, was destroyed in the fire and we were faced with fighting out Maine’s frigid winter in a tent, a fate that did not sit well with my disabled dad’s rapidly failing health.
By late October 2006, plans were still on-going for our magazine, but we now had none of our files, no access to the hard-drive on our computer, and was doing our planning on paper instead, trying to remember and recreate all the info that was on the computer's hard drive.
In January of 2007, things took a turn once again, this time in our favor, and we found our selves with electricity, heat, and a roof over our heads, for the first time since May 9, 2006.
Reunited with my computer, a week later, I was amazed to find, that in spite of the flood, in spite of the fire, the hard drive remained intact, and with a few minor repairs, it runs as good as new. It looks like hell, a bent mangled mess, but who cares, all my files are still here! All my plans and templates, all those months of research and market studies: they had survived! With that knowledge in hand I set out to pick up the pieces, and once again, plans are underway, full speed ahead, to bring Moonsnails and Buried Treasure into production.
And that brings us to today. Neither flood, nor fire, nor cold of winter, could stop Moonsnails. Moonsnails and Buried Treasure rises once again.
~EK
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Writers of short fiction.
Basic Submissions Guidlines:
This is a quick overview of our basic guidelines. See our fully detailed guidelines for each seperate genre on our Submission Guidelines website.
Status:
Moonsnails is currently accepting submissions
Title:
Moonsnails Magazine
Magazine Format: (projected)
Quarterly: 6" x 9", 96 - 132 pages per issue;
60 lb bright white paper, B&W text; 10pt glossy laminated perfect bound full color cover
Circulation:
world-wide though print on demand
Contact Info:
Wendy C. Allen, editor-in-chief, twighlightmanor@yahoo.com
Submission Format:
Send in body of email, 12pt Courier or Times New Roman or Send at attachment .RTF 12pt Courier or Times New Roman.
Payment:
copies only at this time; buys one time rights, (the right to print story in one issue; author retains copyright)
responce time: 2 - 6 months
Needs:
Short stories up to 13,000 words.
Literary Genre fiction. Cross-gen OK.
Rarely uses poetry. Poetry used only if it can be considered a full-fledged story, complete with characters and plot. Never accepts free-verse.
Genres Accepted:
Sci-fi, Fantasy, Gothic Romance, and "mild" Horror
Sub-Genres and Cross-Genres Accepted:
Action, Adventure, Alien Invasion, Alien Realms, Alternative Histories, Amateur Detective, Americana, Ancient Civilizations, Animal Stories, Biographical Fiction, Christmas, Classic Literature, Colonial America, Cryptozology, Dark Fantasy, Dragon Tales, Easter, Ethnic Fiction, Espionage, Faerie Realms, Fairy Tales, Family Sagas, Fantasy, Folklore, Frontier Sagas, Furries, Futuristic, Ghost Stories, Gothic Romance, Halloween, Hard Science Fiction, Haunted Houses, High Fantasy, High Seas Adventure, Historical, Horror, Humor, Inspirational, Kung Fu, Literary, Mad Scientist Sci-Fi, Mermaid Tales, Military, Mystery, Murder Mystery, Paranormal, Pirate Tales, Psychological Thiller/Terror, Regional: Maine, Regional: Quebec, Romance, Science Fiction, Serials, Short-Shorts, Slueths, Space Fantasy, Space Travel, Spiritual, Sword & Sorcery, Supernatural, Suspence, Thiller, Time Travel, Twilight Zone style, UFO stories, Unicorn Tales, Utopian Realms, Victorian, War, Western, Wizard Tales, Young Adult.
Things Rejected:
Rejects all stories that contain:
abortion, animal abuse, child abuse, cutting, death glorification, depression, depressive self-pity, drinking, drugs, elder abuse, erotica, expose`, gore, hatred, hunting, politics, pornography, sex, smoking, swearing, suicide, vulgar verbology, and stories about "how my teenage years were crap".
WE DO NOT PUBLISH FAN-FICTION! DO NOT SEND STAR TREK OR STAR WARS OR HARRY POTTER STORIES!!!(Though we love characters and stories inspired by those!)
Stories must be family friendly and rated PG-13 or less
Poetry Needs:
We focus on short stories, thus rarely use poetry.
Sometimes accepts poetry, at best it's only 4 poems per year, IF it tells a story and has strong characters. Same as fiction needs, seeks longer "epic length" story poems akin to Robert Browning's Pied Piper of Hamlin, Edgar Allan Poe's Raven or Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs & Ham. Prefers long rhyming poems with strong characters and a strong story plot.
Poetry Rejects:
Same as fiction rejects, plus: Does not accept free-verse poetry, haiku, short poems, poems without characters, poems without plots, meaningless ramblings, odes to..., poems without rhythem, or any other type of poem that does not tell a complete story from beginning to end.
Cover Art:
Usually done "in-house", but well consider submissions of full-color photography or paintings, covering any genre. Always seeks beach and ocean themed photos or paintings. Do not send originals. Email files as atactment. Files must be compatible with MSWorks, MSPaint, or MSPublisher 97, .jpg files prefered. Note that we can not accept .tif files, our email treats them as a virus and deletes them. See fiction for needs & rejects list. Buys one time rights.
Art & Inside Illustration:
Usually uses spot illustrations and copyright-free/public domain illustration, but well consider submissions of B&W, pen & ink, line art only ... no pencil, no shading, no grey-scale, no color, our printer well not accept them. All illustrations must be 4" x 6" or smaller and camera ready. Do not send originals. Email files as atactment. Files must be compatible with MSWorks, MSPaint, or MSPublisher 97, .jpg files prefered. Note that we can not accept .tif files, our email treats them as a virus and deletes them. See fiction for needs & rejects list.
Advice:
Best advise: buy a copy of Brian Froud's Faeries. Use it as though it were our Submissions Guidelines. Treat it as your Writer's Bible. Use it to create believable fantasy characters. Never go anywhere without it. If you want to write for us than consider Brian Froud your new best friend, read everything he ever wrote. Study every painting he ever did. Watch every film he ever created. Watch the 2 movies written by Brian Froud: Dark Crystal and Labyrinth.
Read the Retief series by Keith Laumer and The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. We like that kind of sci-fi best.
Watch Star Trek (the original series), Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, X-Files, and Tales From the Dark Side. Let them inspire you. If your story would make for a good episode on one of them, than we want to see it!
We like to see strong characters. Character driven stories. Well written plots. We like fantasy realms, dreamscapes, and alien planets. Creativity is always welcomed. Pirates are always good, we need more pirates. Always seeking stories about Mermaids, Sirens, Dragons, Unicorns, or other creatures of the Realm of Fay. We like to see characters that Brian Froud would have created.
Let your imagination run wild.
Twighlight Manor Press Home Page
hmmmm.... the strange friend requests I've been getting requires me to add this final notice to my profile:
I check the profiles of the requests I get, and while most everyone who requsets to be added to my list gets approved, I do have a few guidelines that well get your profile denied from my friends list:
1) No Porn... any profiles with porn get zapped quicker than anything else (and reported, because porn is not allowed on MySpace.)
2) No spam... this meaning "take this survy and make millions!" type of profiles. (these are also reported as these are also not allowed on MySpace)
3) If you are linking back to porn or spam, I won't report you, but I will deny you.
4.) If you are on my friends list and than suddenly you aren't anymore, ask yourself this: how many comments/IMs/emails did you send me asking me to take a survy to make millions? If the answer was more than one, than, yep, I blocked you and reported you. One such comment from you is ok, but 5 or 6 each and every day is getting pretty annoying, esp when 10 or 20 people are each sending 4 or 5 a day. Not smart on your part. :(
5.) I'm an animal rights activist, if your profile promoted hunting, trapping, or otherwise harming and maiming animals, than that's why you were denied.
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