Pre-call for submissions

Eventually … I said eventually (soon) … RTS will open for submission for our first publically offered anthology, with intentions. I say this because RTS opened its doors (and pocketbook) to an anthology early last year and we were swarmed by writers and frankly arrogant 'creator's of fiction' with the “I’ve been published in ChiZine, so you want this and should pay me now” lot. Regardless of the guidelines, our inbox was ill-treated by impatient writers, concepts were missed as were word counts and reading periods.

All the whining aside, we are going to do one of the things on our founder’s “bucket list” and that is put together anthologies for non-RTS’ers and grow our understanding of the marketplace, new/up and coming talent and demographics of the community that makes up the unique, frightening and inspiring world of writers.

That said; there are some here at RTS who are against the idea. We have our on trail of work and demands to meet and certainly, another anthology is not what the world needs. Perhaps, and as much as it disappoints me to say, I’d ask opinions but either no one reads this blog (which my counters say otherwise) or no one is engaged enough to provide a opinion.

RTS is doing it, regardless. So, then the …

• Who – RTS of course
• What – will be horror, what else is there
• Where – via CreateSpace and KDP, we imagine
• Why – exposure (that's silly) not going to lie, for the growth of RTS
• When – probably looking at a late 2013 to early 2014 release

RTS will keep you apprised of progress and when the actual call for submissions goes out, unless of course someone convinces us otherwise. Please, don't let me turn you off on submitting to us. Something else that we believe in here at RTS and that is saying what is on our minds. We truly hope you all understand ...