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                                MAGAZINE
        <<((=--  The electronic          for your mind!  --=))>>
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 (formerly RANDOM ACCESS HUMOR and RUNE'S RAG)



 DREAM FORGE Magazine
 Dream Forge, Inc.,
 6400 Baltimore National Pike, #201
 Baltimore, MD 21228-3915
 Modem: (410) 255-6229 (data to 28.8 baud) (starting 3/1/95)
 Internet: dbealer@dreamforge.com


 Publisher: Dave Bealer
 Managing Editor: Rick Arnold


 forge, v.t.; from L. fabricari, to make, construct; from
        _faber_, a workman, artisan.
        2. to make by or as by this method; to form; to shape;
        to produce. syn. make; hammer; invent.

 Monthly e-magazine for a thinking and literate readership, 95%
 freelance written. Will work with new and underpublished writers.
 Publishes ms average of 1-2 months after acceptance. Takes first
 serial rights, will accept one time rights on reprints. Pays
 approximately 30 days after publication. Submit seasonal material
 2 months in advance. "Looking for stories with a positive message,
 even if the message is hidden deep within the fabric of the work."
 Preferred length 1,000 to 2,000 words, fiction 2,000 to 4,500.
 Writer's guidelines for #10 SASE or download as DF_GUIDE.TXT. Sample
 e-copy and guidelines on DOS disk for $2.00 with SAS(M)ailer.

 METHOD OF SUBMISSION: Send your ASCII ms by data Modem to: DREAM
 FORGE BBS, (410) 437-3463 to Sysop; file attach to FIDO address
 1:261/1129; WRITERS BIZ (412) 588-7863 to Sysop; f/a to FIDO
 1:2601/522; or INTERNET to: dbealer@dreamforge.com, or Via mail on a
 DOS disk: uncompressed, pure ASCII, with two copies of the ms on the
 disk, e.g. MYSTUFF1.DBC, MYSTUFF2.DBC. Where mystuff1 is the file
 name and .DBC the extension consisting of your initials. Include a
 short Bio with your submission, e.g. ALLANPOE.BIO; 5 TO 10 lines with
 a 70 column maximum. If you're submitting on paper, it had best be
 short, very good, and expect a much longer processing time. Important:
 Include an e-mail contact address, or BBS number for e-mail along
 with your home phone (contact hours), and postal address. All
 manuscripts will be considered disposable, unless you provide RETURN
 mailer and sufficient postage.

    (Note: in WORD: File, Save as, MS DOS Text w/Line Breaks;
     WORKS, File, Save as, DOS Text; some others you must
     redirect "print" to a file to get ASCII text. Preview
     with a text editor, like EDIT from DOS, you should only
     see text.)

 NONFICTION: Humor, satire, essays, reviews, Op-Ed, and political
 commentary from 1000-4000 words. Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing.

 FICTION: Short stories most any genre from 1000-6000 words, longer
 works will be serialized; accepts humorous short-shorts under 1,000.
 Pays $10-$100, plus profit sharing.

 POETRY: Any style and length will pay: $2-$20, plus profit sharing.

 DREAM FORGE shares profits with authors; where 10% of profits, from
 specific revenues, are paid on a pro-rated basis as a bonus to the
 authors from the issue in which the authors' work appears. Details
 of the profit sharing are contained in the authors' contract.

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 If you are an overly successful author, you may decline payment, and
 your funds will be donated to targeted non-profit agencies which
 DREAM FORGE, Inc. supports:  Reading Is Fundamental, Laubach Literacy
 International, and Literacy Volunteers of America. ***

  "There's no fiction as imaginative as that seen on the nightly news."

              "Dreams: the eyes and mind of Your soul." - fk
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