The Christmas anthology is now open for submissions until November 30th. Any genre, as long as Christmas is a central part of the theme of the story. Stories should be roughly 2000 words, but this is not set in stone. A little under, or a lot over, is fine. Very short stories, under 1000 words, we can come to some arrangement on the payment. Short ones are not automativcally rejected.

Payment is £12 per story or equivalent in your local currency. Authors within the UK can opt to be paid in copies of the book (usually three copies, unless it happens to grow far more than usual). Unfortunately this isn’t currently feasible for authors outside the UK, since the postage costs and delays would reduce the number of books and it could take an unreasonably long time to arrive. Outside the UK, you’re better off taking the cash and ordering a copy locally. Or just spend it on beer, it’s your money after all.

The deadline has to be fairly firm in order to get the book assembled, formatted, all author contracts and payments done, and available in time for Christmas.

Finally, please don’t send any AI-generated text or images. This leads to copyright issues and will also cause Amazon to mark the entire book as AI-generated, which is unfair to the other authors.