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                             MAGAZINE
          --  The electronic          for your mind!  --
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(formerly RANDOM ACCESS HUMOR and RUNE'S RAG)

DREAM FORGE
Dream Forge, Inc.,
6400 Baltimore National Pike, # 201
Baltimore, MD 21228-3915
Modem: (410) 437-3463 (data to 28.8baud)

Publisher: Dave Bealer
Managing Editor: Rick Arnold

GUIDELINES for DREAM FORGE e-magazine:
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forge, v.t.; from L. fabricari, to make, constuct; from
       _faber_, a workman, artisan.
       2. to make by or as by this method; to form; to shape;
       to produce. syn. make; hammer; invent.
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Monthly e-magazine for a thinking and literate readership, 95%
freelance written. Will work with new and underpublished writers.
Publishes ms average of 1-2 months after acceptance. Takes first
serial rights, will accept one time rights on reprints. Pays
approximately 30 days after publication. Submit seasonal material
2 months in advance. "Looking for stories with a positive message,
even if the message is hidden deep within the fabric of the work."
Preferred length 1,000 to 2,000 words, fiction 2,000 to 3,000.
Writer's guidelines for #10 SASE or download as DF_GUIDE.TXT. Sample
e-copy and guidelines on dos disk for $1.75 with SAS(M)ailer.

METHOD OF SUBMISSION: Send your ASCII ms by data Modem to: DREAM FORGE
BBS, (410) 437-3463 to Sysop; file attach to FIDO address 1:261/1129;
or INTERNET address: dforge@clark.net, or Via mail on a DOS disk:
uncompressed, pure ASCII, with two copies of the ms on the disk, e.g.
MYSTUFF1.DBC, MYSTUFF2.DBC. Where mystuff1 is the file name and .DBC
the extension consisting of your initials. Include a short Bio with
your submission, e.g. ALLANPOE.BIO; 5 TO 10 lines with a 70 column
maximum. If you're submitting on paper, it had best be short, very
good, and expect a much longer processing time.

IMPORTANT: Include an e-mail contact address, or BBS number for e-mail
along with your home phone (contact hours), and postal address. All
manuscripts will be considered disposable, unless you provide RETURN
mailer and sufficient postage.

NONFICTION: Humor, satire, essays, reviews, Op-ed, and political
commentary from 1000-4000 words. Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing.

FICTION: Short stories most any genre from 1000-6000 words, longer
works will be serialized, or considered for e-novel(la); accepts
humorous short-shorts under 1,000. Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing.

POETRY: Any style and length will pay: $2-$20, plus profit sharing.

DREAM FORGE shares profits with authors; where 10% of profits, from
specific revenues, are paid on a pro-rated basis as a bonus to the
authors from the issue in which the authors' work appears. Details
of the profit sharing are contained in the authors' contract.

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If you are an overly successful author, you may decline payment, and
your funds will be donated to targeted non-profit agencies which
DREAM FORGE, Inc. supports:  Reading Is Fundamental, Laubach Literacy
International, and Literacy Volunteers of America. ***
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"There's no fiction as imaginative as that seen on the nightly news."
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