Please send submissions (not originals!) to:
Rick Perry
Dead Robot Magazine
2505 15th Ave SE
Suite 4
Olympia, WA 98501
Or email us at rick at neverknows dot com. Please do not include attachments.
We will endeavor to reply to all submissions within a reasonable amount of time. If you have not heard from us within a month, please consider that your submission was lost in the ether and attempt to contact us again.
Contaction.
All work submitted for consideration must include all appropriate means of us getting a hold of you. Phone numbers, address, email, blood type, etc. We can't get a hold of you without these things and your work cannot be considered if we can't get a hold of you.
Content.
No potty humor. Seriously. There's too damned much of it and it's too damned stupid. You can be crass and brash and silly with your work, you can be desperately earnest and tragic, but for god's sake at least pretend you're a member of the literati.
Complete Stories.
For some reason when people submit comics to compilations, they feel the burning desire to end them with a big fat, "To Be Continued." This is completely wrong-headed and we will not encourage you in your foolhardiness. You CAN submit a story that is part of your master work, or contains characters from your regular feature comic, but the stories MUST stand alone in their entirety. This goes for fiction as well, but for some reason everyone understands that.
Copyright.
Submit your own work please. We want nothing to do with lawsuits, so original work only, original stories, jokes and artifacts. If you're submitting a non-fiction essay and citing other works, please make sure that all citations are properly marked with a bibliography.
Ownership And Monies.
By submitting to Dead Robot you give us permission to use your work in either our publications, website, advertising or wherever. You still retain ownership of your material though we retain the right to reprint it at our own discretion. There will be no financial restitution for printed or submitted articles. While we would love to make millions printing your stuff and ours and to pay everyone enough to quit their day jobs, we simply are unable to pay anyone at this point. If there is further use of submitted materials for anything that would make money (shirts, prints, posters, books, etc) we will contact the individual artists for issues of both permission and remuneration. Seriously, we're creators too and will not see anyone who works with us ripped off. We will not attempt to make a profit off of other people's work without seeing them paid, but you've got to start somewhere.
Quality.
In our quest to publish good quality work to reflect well upon not only ourselves, but upon all our contributors, we're going to try and hold a fairly tight line on what is and isn't good enough for publication. We're pretty discerning here, so don't be shocked if your masterpiece gets rejected. Seriously. However, we will attempt to work with creators to come up with finished pieces that are acceptable for publication. This may be anything from editing typos to helping rewrite, from digital touch-up to recommending-working-with-another-artist-because-c'mon-man,-admit-it,-your-art just-isn't-that-good.
Evergreen?
We at Never Knows Books are working with the Evergreen State College here in sunny Olympia, WA for the publication of Dead Robot Magazine and, as such, there will be a greater heed given to submissions coming from the student body and related peoples of the college. But in the end we will be accepting and printing whatever work comes our way that is in keeping with our ethos and resplendent level of quality.
