May 29, 2022 6:37 pm
Many works of fiction began from gameplay. The Dragonlance novels spun from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's own campaign while they worked at TSR. The Malazan Books of the Fallen arose from Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont's long term GURPS campaign. James S.A. Corey's The Expanse novels came from a game, rumoured to originate with Traveller.
The worlds of roleplaying and fiction writing continuously cross over. Who hasn't wondered if their campaign wouldn't make for good fiction? Many have wanted to write the next steps for a character you brought to life in game.
The Games We Play is a publishing project dreamed up by Qralloq and Thielindra, husband and wife writers. Over the past many years, we've attended numerous conferences on writing, participated in professional writing groups, written many stories, and sold several for publishing. We also edit and critique manuscripts written by other published authors in our personal writing groups. Finally, Qralloq self-published his own novel in 2018.
What we propose is to curate and publish a collection of short stories written by Gamers Plane's own community. This is a call for those stories, inspired by tabletop roleplaying games, be those characters, settings, or plots. Bring us your wackiest adventures, fantastic characters, and epic moments from or inspired by your games that will forever be etched in your memories, turned into full, complete stories.
Who Can Submit
This call will only be open to members of GP. Prior publishing credits or experience not required.
Genre Expectations
Any genre is open. Inspiration from a TTRPG is the connective tissue.
Word Limit
Word Count: 2000 to 7500. (Longer pieces will be considered on an individual basis, dependent on length and number of other stories submitted.)
In addition, we may include a limited amount of art within the text.
Submissions Conditions
Accepts Multiple Submissions
Accepts Unpublished Pieces and limited number of reprints.
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions, but please let us know if your story is accepted elsewhere.
Standard formatting preferred, but not required.
Our Process
1. Advertise -- This!
2. Answer questions. Q and A on GP forum.
3. Time Limit -- the submission window will be open for three months, ending on August 31, 2022. While we will acknowledge receipt of stories submitted as we receive them, acceptance will only be communicated after the submission window closes.
4. Read the submissions -- we may need several weeks to get through the slush pile, but we'll intend to complete that in September.
5. Select the pieces best suited -- this is by necessity somewhat arbitrary, and we reserve the right to make our choices and live by them.
6. Work with the selected authors to edit the stories into their best form.
7. Layout, design, cover art, illustrations, and formatting.
8. Publish!
Please send submissions to eastontales@gmail.com with your zodiac sign as the subject of your email. Please include a brief description of your tabletop roleplaying game based source of inspiration.
You may submit more than one story.
We'd prefer to use Google Docs or Microsoft Word, as those tools will make the collaborative editing process easier to share our suggestions back to the author. If you send your story in a different format, we'll likely convert the story to one of those for collaborative editing.
Royalties
We will use Pubshare to distribute equal royalties regardless of length to the creative talents involved. Cover art will receive 5% and story illustrator 10%. Artists to be determined at a later date.
The worlds of roleplaying and fiction writing continuously cross over. Who hasn't wondered if their campaign wouldn't make for good fiction? Many have wanted to write the next steps for a character you brought to life in game.
The Games We Play is a publishing project dreamed up by Qralloq and Thielindra, husband and wife writers. Over the past many years, we've attended numerous conferences on writing, participated in professional writing groups, written many stories, and sold several for publishing. We also edit and critique manuscripts written by other published authors in our personal writing groups. Finally, Qralloq self-published his own novel in 2018.
What we propose is to curate and publish a collection of short stories written by Gamers Plane's own community. This is a call for those stories, inspired by tabletop roleplaying games, be those characters, settings, or plots. Bring us your wackiest adventures, fantastic characters, and epic moments from or inspired by your games that will forever be etched in your memories, turned into full, complete stories.
Who Can Submit
This call will only be open to members of GP. Prior publishing credits or experience not required.
Genre Expectations
Any genre is open. Inspiration from a TTRPG is the connective tissue.
Word Limit
Word Count: 2000 to 7500. (Longer pieces will be considered on an individual basis, dependent on length and number of other stories submitted.)
In addition, we may include a limited amount of art within the text.
Submissions Conditions
Accepts Multiple Submissions
Accepts Unpublished Pieces and limited number of reprints.
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions, but please let us know if your story is accepted elsewhere.
Standard formatting preferred, but not required.
Our Process
1. Advertise -- This!
2. Answer questions. Q and A on GP forum.
3. Time Limit -- the submission window will be open for three months, ending on August 31, 2022. While we will acknowledge receipt of stories submitted as we receive them, acceptance will only be communicated after the submission window closes.
4. Read the submissions -- we may need several weeks to get through the slush pile, but we'll intend to complete that in September.
5. Select the pieces best suited -- this is by necessity somewhat arbitrary, and we reserve the right to make our choices and live by them.
6. Work with the selected authors to edit the stories into their best form.
7. Layout, design, cover art, illustrations, and formatting.
8. Publish!
Please send submissions to eastontales@gmail.com with your zodiac sign as the subject of your email. Please include a brief description of your tabletop roleplaying game based source of inspiration.
You may submit more than one story.
We'd prefer to use Google Docs or Microsoft Word, as those tools will make the collaborative editing process easier to share our suggestions back to the author. If you send your story in a different format, we'll likely convert the story to one of those for collaborative editing.
Royalties
We will use Pubshare to distribute equal royalties regardless of length to the creative talents involved. Cover art will receive 5% and story illustrator 10%. Artists to be determined at a later date.
