Writers’ Guidelines

Stories may range from 500 to 5,000 words

The After Midnight anthologies are intended for adults but

submitted stories should not contain any graphic violence,

gore, x-rated sex scenes or obscene language. But we don’t

want baby pabulum either. Find a way to tell your story that

is exciting and intriguing without being off-putting.

Anthologies are currently featured for sale in the Welkin

Press store on ebay, and eventually will also be hosted on

WelkinPress.com.

The second week of each month, all contributing writers will

receive a proportionate share of 30 percent of the net profits

from the previous month’s sales, capping out at a maximum

yet have any sales figures, it is difficult for us to accurately

estimate what the final pay for each story will be. However,

since the anthologies will remain posted and available for

from the publication of their works. This is in contrast to the

print world where writers receive a one-time payment for

the publication of their short fiction.

All writers will be paid via Paypal. If you do not yet have a

PayPal account, visit paypal.com to set up an account so you

can receive your monthly payment. You will be sent a

monthly royalty statement by email and your earnings will

be deposited directly into your PayPal account the second

week of each month.

Welkin Press is purchasing electronic rights to your story,

which includes but is not limited to:

    1. online publication in one of the four After Midnight

anthologies which may be made available for sale

either through ebay or welkinpress.com

    2. The disposition of any other rights to your work are

subject to negotiation between Welkin Press and the

contributing author. Typically these rights may

include movie or television rights, CD rights, DVD

rights, podcast rights and future rights to technologies

that have yet to be invented or exploited. The

standard split on the sale of these rights is 50 percent

to Welkin Press and 50 percent to be divided proportionately

among the authors of the work in question.

For the sale of these rights, your share depends upon

the number of stories you have in the affected

volume, not the number of words in your story. For

example, if you have 2 stories in a volume that a

producer wants to option, you would receive 20

percent of the author’s 50-percent share of the sale. If

you have one story, you would receive 10 percent.

If a buyer chooses to option just one story, the author

of that story would receive the full 50 percent share.

    3. The sale of print rights must be negotiated on a caseby-

case basis with Welkin Press, but generally speaking,

we want our authors to make as much money as

they can from their works and are not opposed to

such sales as long as the reprint is branded with the

appropriate “After Midnight” title.

Any questions? email the publisher: pbsmith@wt.net