Prospective participants list for Bang*Bang no.46

[ladysisyphus]

This is a signup for the December 16 issue; the text deadline for the issue is Tuesday, December 10, and the art deadline is Saturday, December 14. Please comment here if you plan to submit a story or artwork for this issue. Artists should specify whether you're submitting a standalone piece, offering to illustrate a story, or doing both. Artists offering to illustrate should provide either links to or thumbnails of past works as examples of style; writers wishing to collaborate with artists (or artists wishing to collaborate with writers) should respond directly to comments to this post. As always, you don't have to sign up to participate, and you're not creating an unbreakable contract by signing up, but throwing your name into the hat is always a good way to get that creative impulse going! Signups for the beta reader pool will be in an upcoming post.

December, as tradition would have it, is the time of the THEME-FREE ISSUE: Choose your own adventure!

Special note on the December word count: Since it's worked so well in this past, this year we're going for another big bang! The minimum word count remains the same as it's ever been -- 1500 words -- but the upper bound is gone! Keep in mind, though, that this means that any text submission better have been edited thoroughly before it gets to me. Obviously the thirty-minute editing rule doesn't really work for something that takes me longer than thirty minutes to read, but that means if the errors slow me down even a little bit during my pre-publication read-through, the story's going to get bounced back for the author to fix.

• Submissions guidelines for writers: All the specifics for text submissions. READ BEFORE SUBMITTING.
• Writing aids and standards: Here are writing resources to make sure your story doesn't fall afoul of the thirty-minute rule.
• Submissions guidelines for artists: Whether you're illustrating or submitting a standalone piece, if you're hoping to get your thousand words done with a picture, here's what you need to know.

A small, repeated plea from your editors: use Google Docs. It's not mandatory, and we'll still accept submissions in any form in which we can read them, but please, it makes editing, sharing, and collaborating just that much easier -- and ensures submissions won't be lost in the spam folder. And speaking of that spam folder, if you're going to send us an email for any reason, please take a minute to make sure the subject line and body have enough unique text that they won't trip Google's overactive spam filter; if you don't hear a reply from us in a few days, best to change up your wording and try again. Do also make sure that your spam filter whitelists all messages from us, too, so we're sure to make contact with one another.

Also! Please double-check to make sure you have smart quotes turned off -- and that goes for 'smart ellipses' too. Some of Google Docs' recent redesigns have turned that option back on for many people without their knowng it, and that's terrible.

There will be a digital edition of this issue released for download at some point in the future, and from this point on we're assuming that if you submit your story or artwork to us, you are saying yes to being a part of this collection. However, if you do not want your contribution available for download, please let us know in an email and we will respect that.

Please remember also to add yourself as a member of the bb_shousetsu community if you're writing or illustrating, as many admin announcements and past entries are locked to members only. For open discussion on any SSBB-related topic, start a thread at bangbangwhimper. For related nonsense and goings-on, visit our main website, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, DeviantArt, y!gallery, and Archive of Our Own!

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I know this is super-soon, considering that the Masquerade Issue just came out Monday, but take another look at that deadline: Tuesday, December 10. That is now five and a half weeks away. Our December deadlines are always painfully early, we know, but there's always so much end-of-year nonsense going on that we want to get the issue done as an early present, not a last-minute gift.



Prospective writers
anacoluthon
ariamech
battledresses
beeblebabe
Hyakunichisou 13
iamcatspaw
jibrailis
riicchan
serrival

Prospective standalone (only) artists:
[Please note: this section of the signup is for artists who are interested in contributing original art but do not want to collaborate with an author. Any artist who offers to illustrate is of course welcome to do a standalone piece as well.]

Illustrators offering services:
beili ( link)
coffee_flowers ( link)
serrival ( link)