Bottled Imp Games Competition

[annadobritt]

To celebrate the release of The Lords of the Night: Vampires, we are opening our doors for a brand new writing competition.
You can see the competition here.

www.bottledimpgames.com/Competition.htm

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Kind Regards

Stuart Renton
Bottled Imp Games
"Putting the Game into Gamers - Everywhere!"
www.bottledimpgames.com

[Kahuna Burger]

Originally posted by annadobritt

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact me.

Lets go with the obvious first - are you offering compensation besides the warm glow of seeing work in print. (hey, someone had to ask)

second, this may be in the disclosure form, but what is the ownership of either the full short stories, the prelimenary plotlines or the samples? Is this work for hire?

Fun idea, kind of a Theives World flavor to it.

Kahuna Burger

[Bottled Imp Games]

Hi.

In addition to seeing your work in print, we will be paying the winners 2 cents per word and giving them a copy of the book upon its release in August.

All short stories will become the property of Bottled Imp Games only on acceptance for the anthology.

If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to email us at Bottled Imp Games

Kind regards

Stuart Renton
Bottled Imp Games

[Kahuna Burger]

Originally posted by Bottled Imp Games

All short stories will become the property of Bottled Imp Games only on acceptance for the anthology.

Just to comment, you may be discouraging 'top tier' work with this. I know work for hire is the default for gaming materials, but fiction is (AFAIK) done to a different default. Personally, if I came up with a really good story I would be hesistant to use it for this contest, for fear I couldn't expand it later. (Its possible for a musician to be charged with plagurizing himself when his previous work is owned by a former band, I don't know if that sort of thing has come up in writing.)

Sorry for any paranioa, but I just thought I'd throw that out there. I may be misinterpreting the amount of ownership implied in your statement.

Kahuna Burger

[Bottled Imp Games]

Personally, if I came up with a really good story I would be hesistant to use it for this contest, for fear I couldn't expand it later.

This is our unique setting with our own vampires. You couldn't write a story involving those elements anywhere else. You certainly couldn't expand it - unless we asked you to *wink*.

This is just a fun competition to celebrate our first release.

Regards

Imp

[Blacksad]

Are foreign writers with bad english skills allowed?

[Bottled Imp Games]

Are foreign writers with bad english skills allowed?

Of course!

We have great editors here at the Imp. Of course good grammar is very important, but that won't stand in the way of a great story.

Regards

Imp

[2WS-Steve]

Just to make sure, will this be a print product or a PDF? Also, will it be mainly distributed through the hobby trade or also through the book trade?

Gracias in advance and this sounds like an interesting project-- blending pure fiction with game elements. Hope it works out well.

[Bottled Imp Games]

Hi Steve.

All our products are print copies

It is definitely being distributed through the hobby trade in the States, and by hobby and book trade in the UK.

Will have more updates on that in the near future.

Regards

Imp