Submissions

Please note: submissions to both our print and free series are currently closed.

Please don't hesitate to ask questions.

Please direct all other enquiries here: info@legumeman.com

General submission guidelines (print and free)

When submitting your work to LegumeMan Books, we ask you to abide by the following guidelines:

• In general, unless submitting to our free series, we are looking for novels and novellas. This isn't to say we'll ignore anything else but our emphasis is toward novels/novellas.
• Only submit completed stories. We’ll be far more likely to take you seriously if you present us with a fully formed piece of work.
• MS Word’s built in spell checker isn’t the be all and end all. Please go over your work carefully to minimise basic mistakes. We’re not expecting print ready material but spelling the subject line in your initial e-mail to us correctly will help you get beyond the sniggers that will unavoidably result.
• Where possible, please submit your work as a doc/docx file. Line spacing should be 1.5 with font size 12. All pages should be numbered with a header that includes the author’s name. We understand that not everyone uses Microsoft Word (more power to you) so we will also accept Open Office files. If all you have is notepad, we’ll accept it but the submission better be damn good!
• It helps to understand the styles we’re looking for. Primarily we aim our focus at underground fiction of an extreme or unusual nature. We want to be a home for the kind of stuff that gets largely ignored. We’re not going to tell you to buy our books in order understand where we come from (although it would be nice) but at least glance at our titles before deciding whether your story is really appropriate.

Free series specifics
Our free series is intended to provide the world with interesting short fiction in an electronic format that can be downloaded freely. This means that we can’t offer financial incentive to you. What it does mean is we will layout and make your story available to anyone who happens across our site. The reason for this is because we want to support authors but don’t have the time to release as many physical books as we'd like. By focusing on regularly uploaded short stories, we give you a chance to gain some publicity, which in such a dense field, can’t be a bad thing.

As a general rule of thumb, stories submitted to the free series should be between 1,000 – 10,000 words.

All stories in our short series are published under a creative commons license. As the author, you retain all rights to your work and if something better comes along, we encourage you take your work and run.

For more information on Creative Commons, cast your browsers here:

http://www.creativecommons.org.au/