General Submission Guidelines for Dark Scribe Magazine:

► Send all queries to: magazine@darkscribepress.com

► Please remember that first impressions count. Your original query is important. For some useful tips on submitting email queries and our preferred format, please follow the guidelines offered here. Queries with any kind of attachment will be deleted without being read.

► State availability of photos in your query for interviews and feature pieces. Writers who go the extra mile in securing images to accompany their own pieces will impress us.  Lacking the manpower of mainstream publications, writers who make our jobs easier in this regard will be strongly favored for an encore appearance in our magazine.

► Once we have reviewed your query and responded indicating our interest in considering a submission, please adhere to the following format:

■ Send as Word attachments only – do not send submissions in body of email

■ Use Courier, 12-point font

■ Double space body of article

■ 5-space indent at beginning of new paragraphs

■ No manual page breaks

■ No extra spacing between paragraphs – the 5-space indent will tell us where a new paragraph begins

■ Use 1-inch margins – this includes top, bottom, left and right

■ Working title of article center on page – may be all caps, no quotations

■ No headers or footers

■ No page numbers

■ At the top of the first page in the left-hand corner, single-spaced, please include the following information:

Name

Street Address

City, State, Zip Code

Email Address

Word Count (body of submission, excluding title)

► Photos and other images will be requested once an article has been accepted for publication. When sending these, only high-resolution jpeg attachments will be accepted. A separate Word file with well-written captions and any photo credits must be included.