SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN

Publishing webserials is HARD. The writing, the setting up the site, the maintaining the site, the promotion, the more promotion, the crying yourself to sleep because no one seems to be reading, the more writing, the shameless whoring of your soul in order to find a revenue model.

All very very stressful.

Well we’re looking for a few new writers to publish their stuff here on fluffy-seme, because why should we all go through this alone? So if you’ve published a web serial before, are thinking about publishing one or have an unpublished novel you’re tired of getting rejection letters over, this may be a good opportunity for you.

But first some thoughts:

No hard and fast rules here, these guidelines just give you a very basic idea of what we’re looking for. The only unbreakable rule is this: don’t send us submissions when we’re not open for them. Just don’t. Don’t do it. If we’re closed for submissions, it’s for a specific reason

What we’re looking for:

Is novel length in its entirety. Ballpark figure about 350 pages.
Splits easily into parts between 6 – 14 pages long (though we tend to prefer around 10 pages figure around 4,000 words)
Doesn’t fit clearly into one specific genre
Slash friendly

Slash!?!?!

Point of fact most of our stuff does not contain slash at all, but a lot of our readers like that sort of thing and we embrace it as good honest fun. So we’re not looking for series with slash pairings, but at the very least you should be okay with the idea that our readers may be thinking about two of your male characters screwing while they’re reading your perfectly unslashy story If that bothers you as an author, fluffy-seme is probably not the best place for you.

About Genres

And yeah we tend to gravitate towards the odd ball stuff rather than stories about a main character with unique powers through which he/she must save the world. That’s not to say that if you have a very classic Sci-fi or Fantasy story to tell we won’t consider it, we just feel like certain genres in weblit are over represented and would like to publish different stuff.

Here’s what’s currently being published here:
+Ugly Little Communist House: Imagine a travel guide to Prague and the Czech Republic written by John Nash of a Beautiful Mind. The narrator of ULC has an undisclosed neurological disorder which comes up from time to time as she guides you through the expat scene, the English teaching industry, and the finer points of Czech culture.

+Martin Ostrowski’s Season in the Red: A three book series about the trials and tribulations of professional sports and the media machine as told through the perspectives of hockey players from the former Soviet Union. Wacky and ridiculously slash friendly.

+Split-Self: Sex and the City if Carrie Bradshaw was a psychic vampire looking to feed instead of a single girl looking for love. Deals heavily with the underground cultures of NYC, particularly the microcosm of fameballs and bloggers.

So like we said. We like stuff that’s different XD

What about the length?

Our stuff tends to be a bit longer than I guess what most webserials publish at. I say I guess because it’s never really occurred to me to check and compare notes. Truthfully, we have no hard and fast rules about update length. It’s more about how much content it takes to give the reader something well developed and satisfying while still being manageable in one sitting. For most stories we find the sweet spot is around 8-10 pages, but Ugly Little Communist House tends to publish at a much lower page count per part because it’s written in a style that is rawer and a little jerkier at times.

So while exceptions can and will be made, you should expect to produce at least 6 pages worth of quality writing a week.

For that reason we like new acquisitions to have AT LEAST 50 pages of their serial written before we start publication. This creates a built-in cushion to allow the serial 1) to build an audience and 2) handle writer’s block, scheduling problems, or anything else that may cause you to have problems producing a new part every week.

Why Become a fluffy-seme Writer?

We’re a business. Incorporated as F.S. Publishing, we’re serious about the future of what we’re doing. It’s not a hobby, it’s not play publishing until we can become “real” authors. We want to see fluffy-seme become a legitimate publishing house, not an also-ran for aspiring literati, and while there are no guarantees that we’ll succeed, we’re committed to the business.
We’re not a vanity press or a self-publishing scheme. We do not ask you to put up any money to publish your work. Although writers are always free to throw some of their own money into the promotion of their works, we’re not going to charge you fees for our business expenses.
It’s really tough to go it alone. Pooling resources towards one publishing space benefits everyone.
We want to build an online environment that attracts readers not other writers. Feedback from other writers is great and has its place, but we don’t want to be another Fictionpress, we want to be a site for readers.

Sound Good So Far?

Here’s what we need from you. Put together a submission including the following information:

Title: (or working title)
Summary: (as best you can, we know we’re all special snowflakes whose beauty cannot be captured with summary! ^o^)
Estimated Word Count of the Completed Serial:
Have you ever published a webserial before?
How much (if any) of the work do you have written already?
Is the serial being submitted currently being published anywhere else? Be it FictionPress or your own private WordPress installation or anything else?
Are you over 18?
Writing Sample

The sample should be of the series in question, a couple of pages is really all we need. To submit you can either post you submission to this forum (you will need a fluffy-seme account for this [but free!]) or you can email it to seme (at) fluffy-seme.net. We prefer you put it up on the forum because we like to keep our publishing process reasonably transparent, it will help us gauge potential audience response, and personally I feel like it’s easier for authors to handle the selection process when they see what they’re up against.

Final Thoughts

You are strongly encouraged to take some time browsing through this site and the main site before you submit. This style of publishing is not for everyone and we can think of nothing worse than finding someone we really like, only to realize that they are uncomfortable with our terms and business model. This site right here exists to keep you informed about the business. Use it.

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