Mythic Europe Magazine: Call For Submissions

Mythic Europe Magazine, the new pdf fanzine for the Ars Magica roleplaying game, is seeking submissions for issue #2. Issue 1 is available at various online sites.

FAQ:

Deadline: There isn’t one. I’ll collect submissions until there’s sufficient material to release an issue. That’s at least 50 pages of text plus public domain art, but may be more. At latest I want MEM2 to come out one year after MEM1, which is April2026. If it is substantially shorter than MEM1, it’ll have a lower cover price.

Payment is 5 cents (USD) per word on acceptance, paid over PayPal. Acceptance may include substantial rounds of revision and may include editing. Note that creature statistic blocks will not be counted, so you are encouraged to use one of the 700 in the Share-alike license. Publishers wishing to promote their own material within the share alike license are welcome to, but will not be paid for their advertisement copy.

Rights: By submitting your work you are granting me a perpetual license of use. Note that this is not a copyright transfer, but one of the things I will do is add your work to the Ars Magica Share Alike License. Many other publishers or podcasters will refuse to accept something that has been published in this way. Note that this deliberately does not prevent you bundling up your work to self publish at a later date.

Original Work: No AI tools may be used, beyond spellcheckers and simple grammar correction. If share alike materials or public domain materials are incorporated they must be credited. By submitting you are indicating you are the author of the work and have the right to license it.

Process: Query letters are welcome and help ensure you do not spend time on material already being covered by another author, or covered in the core 40 books. Send queries and submissions to gamesfromfolktales@gmail.com. Submissions must include your name and email address. Pen names are fine for publication, but a real name is required for submissions. As I’m a single person working on this, there may be substantial delay before I respond.

Style: Standalone works of between 500 and 5 000 words in English. Work should be submitted in a simple file format (like rtf, odt or docx) using a common font. Do not lay out the work, for example by using fonts to mark headings or by using text boxes to create inserts. I simply can’t afford new art and so am not requesting it. There being no guarantee that the magazine will continue for a certain number of issues, serial submissions like columns need to stand as discrete pieces of work.

Dispute mechanism: All legal disputes are to be handled according to Queensland (Australian) law. Note that this means you need to arrange your own tax reporting for income.

Change of terms: I may change these terms without warning, because I’m new at this and may have forgotten something obvious.

Some of the material which currently goes into the Games From Folktales podcast transcript pdfs may be incorporated into this magazine. “Name in the Credits” supporters will be named in the magazine.

This magazine won’t have a subscription model. It will be sold on DriveThru and similar sites as single issues. Subscription is financially a better model, but it has an administrative cost in time that I’d like to avoid. Similarly it won’t Kickstart or ransom: both are excellent ideas, but they’re time intensive. Paid Membership of the GFF Patreon at time of release is effectively a subscription, though.