Not Your Mother’s Book: On Dieting
Extended Deadline: May 1, 2014
Consisting of real-life stories written by individuals 18 years and older, NYMB is tailored for a mature-audience readership; stories may contain language and situations akin to a PG-13 or TV-14 rating. While not all stories will fall into this rating system, the series will not focus on death/dying, cry-your-eyes out sad selections, but only hip, fun, modern and very-much-today type stories that will entertain our readers.
Not Your Mother's Book...On Dieting is a fun-filled chronicle written by and for people who have tried every imaginable diet to lose weight. We are looking for hilarious, edgy, silly, frustrating and successful stories from you, stories that will have our readers laughing all the way to the scales! All topics are fair game, including regarding diet books as good fiction or jumping through hoops when it comes to countless diet plans.
Your story must be a true account of something that has happened to you or someone you know. It must be written in the first person, past tense. Your story must be between 500 and 2500 words. We will accept stories that have been previously published if you now have all rights that will allow us to reprint it. You retain the copyright to your submission. Payment for accepted stories is one of two options: payment in copies of the books or payment as royalties for a one-year period, likely no more than $50-$100 per contributor.