[Paying Market] Common Ties - $50 per accepted answer - 20 questions

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http://commonties.com/

20 Questions Submission Guidelines.

Common Ties is introducing a new section, 20 Questions, through which
we encourage people to share their answers in the form of very short
stories/snippets. Our questions appear below; answers should be
submitted to: CT20Qu...@gmail.com

We pay for:

1. Answers ($50 per accepted answer; to see answers we've bought but
that still need artwork, go here)
2. Recordings ($50 per accepted recording; we will approach you if we
want you to record your answer; recordings are optional)
3. Artwork (if you submit artwork with your answer, and we choose to
publish it, you will receive additional compensation, to be determined
per circumstance; artwork is optional)


Rights: Contributors retain the rights to the answers and art Common
Ties purchases, allowing them to re-publish their work elsewhere in
the future with two exceptions: a) any audio produced by Common Ties
is owned exclusively by Common Ties, and b) Common Ties reserves the
exclusive right to publish these works in multi-author anthologies.
Note that contributors do not enter into a contract with Common Ties
until a submission is accepted and they elect to sign the contract,
all of which occurs prior to publication. Common Ties also considers
pre-published material (both print and art) if the contributor is able
to prove that s/he retains full rights to the material.


The questions.

1. What door do you wish you never opened?
2. What is your most obsessive thought?
3. Where is your favorite place in the world, and why?
4. What's the one thing your parents don't understand about you?
5. If you could relive a single day or moment, what would it be?
6. What were the strangest circumstances under which you have been
intimate?
7. Under what circumstances have you been closest to death?
8. What is the most gracious act of kindness you have witnessed?
9. What is the worst betrayal you have ever experienced?
10. What is the most bizarre thing you have seen or done?
11. What is the greatest risk you have ever taken?
12. What is your earliest, most vivid memory?
13. What is the most meaningful "I love you" someone has said to you,
or that you have said to someone else?
14. What was the single most terrifying moment of your life?
15. If you have experienced a moment of sudden faith or loss of faith,
what prompted it?
16. If you could take back one thing you have done, what would it be?
17. What is your greatest talent or accomplishment?
18. What is the most joyful moment you have experienced?
19. What is the most painful moment you have experienced?
20. Open Question: Submit your own question and answer.


Writers: In your submission to CT20Qu...@gmail.com, please be sure
to include both the question(s) and corresponding answer(s), and if
you choose, you may also submit artwork associated with your
answer(s). All work must be your own. Answers may appear as prose or
poetry. Optional information includes your name, publishing history,
contributor description, as well as the time and location of your
answer (i.e. August 1998, Evanston, Illinois).

1. Answers must be 100 percent true to the best of your knowledge.
2. Answers must be pasted into your email, not attached. You may
submit multiple answers at once.
3. Answers should be 50 words or less. Please let us know which
question(s) you are answering.
4. Writers whose answers we choose to publish will be asked to sign a
contract and confirm that their answer is true, as well as provide the
Common Ties staff with their real name and address for payment. Common
Ties does not share this information with anyone.
5. As with general story submissions, answers will be reviewed within
four weeks of the date they were submitted, and Common Ties will only
reply to those whose answers we wish to buy.


Artists: We are looking for artists to participate in any of the
following ways:

1. Submit your portfolio, to be considered in mid-2008 as a regular
contributor to the development of our book.
2. Submit artwork (on spec) to accompany answers already published on
our site.
3. Submit your own answer(s) and/or artwork (on spec) to be published
both on our site and/or in our book.

All submissions should be sent to CT20Qu...@gmail.com. All work
must be your own, and artwork must be submitted as .jpg files.
Optional information includes your name, publishing history, and
contributor description. Artwork can be in the form of a cartoon,
drawing, painting, photo, postcard, craftwork, etc. If your art is
three-dimensional simply photograph it. Movable artwork such as video
will not be reviewed.

20 Questions FAQs.

1. How will I learn if Common Ties would like to buy my answer(s) and/
or artwork? Should we select your work for publication, we will send
you an acceptance email and contract. We do not send rejection letters
or provide feedback on answers or artwork.
2. If you purchase my answer and/or artwork, where might it be
published? Your work may appear initially on our website and possibly
in book(s).
3. Will I receive a standardized response for each submission? It
depends on when you send your submissions. So as not to deluge your
inbox, we only email our automated submission response to the first
submission you send during a four-day period. We do review all
material submitted.
4. Who may submit? Anyone, anywhere in the world who is 16 or older.
If you are a minor you must receive parental permission. Note:
Submissions must be in English.
5. Do you pay royalties on submissions that appear in books? No.
6. Are there offensive language or other content restrictions? No.
7. Is there a limit to the number of answers or artwork that Common
Ties will publish by one contributor? No, although we suggest you only
submit your very best answers and/or art.
8. May I use a pen name? Yes. In fact, all answers will remain
anonymous until we move into book publishing, at which point both the
writer and the artist will have the opportunity to use their real
names.
9. What is the maximum file size for art submissions? Please limit
your .jpg files to between 100k and 2 megs each.
10. How do you pay for answers and/or art? Common Ties pays by check
within 30 days of publication. We do not use Paypal.
11. What if I don't understand a question? Questions are intentionally
open-ended and meant to be interpreted as you wish.
12. May I snail mail my answer(s) and/or artwork? At this point, no.
13. Is there anything else like 20 Questions? There are a few
successful projects aimed at encouraging people to reveal their true
selves (the blog Post Secret is one of our favorite examples) as well
as projects that pair words with art (the last page of the New Yorker
inspires writers to submit captions for cartoons). Ours is unique in
several ways, including format (we publish words first, and often seek
out corresponding artwork), content (we ask a wide range of personal
questions and consider the answers to be short stories) and
compensation (we pay).

If you still have a question about 20 Questions, please email us
through our contact page.