Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Status: Taking a break from 14-Dec-2003
Submissions reopen 1-Feb-2004
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year etc to all!

SHORT VERSION:

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine (ASIM) Submission Guidelines.

"Andromeda" is a new Speculative Fiction magazine, to be published bimonthly and widely distributed. We are looking for stories (to 10,000 words), poetry, line drawings and even non-fiction articles. We will accept SF, Fantasy and Horror pieces, with a preference for "fun" rather than grim-and-gritty. The first issue was launched 7th June 2002 at the Convergence SF Convention.

We are now looking for Serials to publish. Please read the Serials Guidelines  first.

Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine buys First Australian Serial Rights.
No Simultaneous Submissions & One Submission at a time, please!

Payment:
  Short Fiction: 1.25c/Word(Australian), with a $20 minimum per piece. (POP) 
  Poetry and Flash Fiction: A$10 per piece.

TO SUBMIT TEXT:
E-mail to submissions@andromedaspaceways.com as an attached RTF.
(Checkout our formatting guidelines HERE.)
or
Mail:
Andromeda Spaceways Submissions
PO Box 89
Latham ACT 2615
Australia

Please provide manuscript in electronic form. Email is preferred, but you can send either a 3.5" floppy or CD-R to the above address.  We can't cope with printed submissions. 

Submissions will only be returned if SASE included.
(refer to: http://www.shunn.net/writing/coach/format.html for preferred submission format.) This link is to an excellent reference on how to format manuscripts. William Shunn has no relationship to ASIM.

Please make sure you include full contact details, including postal address, e-mail, and phone number.

ARTWORK:

ASIM will also be looking for B&W internal illustrations. If you are interested in supplying artwork, please contact our Art Director at: artdirector@andromedaspaceways.com

Samples of your work can be sent as screen resolution scanned images (no more than 300kb per image, please), links to online galleries, or mailed to the above address.

MORE DETAILED GUIDELINES FOLLOW

SO:
What would *you* like to see in your in-flight magazine? Fiction?
Science Articles? Hey, does anyone *really* know how to fly this thing? Where exactly *are* the exits? Shouldn't we have turned left at Albuqueque, and why is that sun getting so extremely large in the front view-port?

STORIES:
Anything up to 10,000 words. Longer works -- included serialised novels -- will be considered, but please contact us first. We will accept SF, F & H -- preferably with a dash of humour, but anything as long as it is well written. (NB: This is intended for a wide audience, so anything written should be no more than M rated.)

POETRY:
Will consider anything. No more than two pages worth, please.

ARTICLES:
Non-fiction articles will be considered on anything related to science or the writing of SF, Fantasy or Horror. We will also consider amusing pseudo-articles, particularly about the "fictional" Andromeda Spaceways ... (or nasty articles about our competitors...)

SOME NOTES ON STYLE:
We want the tone of ASIM to be light -- as opposed to the dark-and-gritty style that characterises so many other SF mags this day and age. This does not mean exclusively (or even largely) humour per se ... fun, cracking adventures, a bit of tongue in cheek, a few wise-cracks. We will not be encouraging slap-stick, laugh a minute, funny-ha-ha attempts.... We want Terry Pratchett, not Ron Goulart, Eric Frank Russell rather than E.E. "Doc" Smith, Miles Vorkosigan rather than Elric of Melnibone...

If the next Isaac Asimov pops up with a masterfully grim and gritty tale of angst and despair, then we will publish it ... but given an otherwise even choice between angst and adventure, I would take the lighter one any day. QUALITY WORK WILL NOT BE TURNED AWAY.

Just as a general guideline, humour should grow organically from the characters and the situations, it should not be laid on with a trowel. That way leads to madness....

SERIAL GUIDELINES

ASIM is now actively seeking serials for the magazine.  Like our ordinary fiction, the ASIM serial should be fast-paced, exciting and compulsively readable.  The serial can be set in the Andromeda Spaceways universe or have an original setting.  Our preference is for humor, space fiction or sword and sorcery (or a combination) but we're willing to be talked into anything else the speculative genres have to offer as long as it's entertaining.  We are not looking for long fiction that has simply been chopped into episodes -- we want fiction which has been written for the serial form, with punchy episodes ending in cliff-hangers that make the reader want to buy our next issue!

Your serial should be in 3-6 episodes of whatever length you choose, although we are more likely to accept a good serial of 1-2,000 word episodes (or less!) than one where the episodes are 3-4,000 words.  All these rules are bendable, but query if you have any specific questions or concerns.

Please submit a first episode only to serials@andromedaspaceways.com -- if we want to read more we will request the full serial before making a final decision on whether to publish.  (This address is ONLY for serial submissions. Normal submissions still use the address above.)

Do not send a synopsis!  The first episode will be your pitch.

We are unlikely to be purchasing more than one serial per year, so our standards are high.  The serial would also have to be approved by all relevant issue editors (one for each episode) before being accepted.

Give it a try and become a part of Australian pulp SF history!

Tansy Rayner Roberts & Robbie Matthews
Serial Editors
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine