Not Your Mother's Book: On Military Life
Posted by Sally Clark on Sunday, July 20, 2014
Not Your Mother’s Book on Military Life
Deadline: September 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.
We are looking for stories from active members of the military, veterans and military families about the fun and interesting side of the military--the kinds of stories that most civilians will never hear, but would certainly appreciate if they did. Tell us about those special actions or programs that helped a local family or community or one of your own, whether in a war zone, an overseas base or back in the States. We need stories about the lessons learned when you went out of your way to do good. And the joke you played on a comrade-in-arms (or that was played on you) that he or she also laughed at. While military history is important, it's not the focus of this book, so please do not submit detailed accounts of military operations and campaigns.
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.
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