Submissions

Unsolicited submissions for our print series have now closed. Please check back for the next reading period. Submissions for our free series never close and can be directed here: freeseries@legumeman.com

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:

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/

Our stance on zombies

Let me first begin by saying that if I saw a corpse walking about of its own volition, it would be a fairly disquieting experience. I won’t argue that seeing a zombie would instill some fright. Our issue with zombies is the relative lack of threat they would pose to humans. Our reasoning is thus:

So hopefully you see where we’re coming from. Pick a zombie-related situation and apply the above logic. Zombies may look frightening but they’re simply not dangerous. They’re the daddy long legs of the monster world. A zombie plague would be much preferred over pretty much any other epidemic you could think off. Even the swine flu is more dangerous.


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