Echelon Press is pleased to announce that we are now seeking queries for a new Steampunk anthology to be published in June 2014. With the release of “Her Majesty’s Mysterious Conveyance,” and the recent bestselling success of “Once Upon a Clockwork Tale,” we proudly offer this new opportunity for Steampunk authors.
The 2014 anthology will be entitled “Alchemy’s Dark Secrets,” and feature four carefully selected stories that effectively tell the scintillating tale of murder, mystery, or mayhem There need not be a murder as long as a mystery of some sort is solved) set into a solid Steampunk theme. Please note that Echelon is NOT looking for any stories that include vampires, werewolves, zombies, or other creepy entities–humans and automatons only. We will include straight mysteries that lean toward the cozy side. This anthology will be published in both print and electronic formats.
Please send your queries, with a complete marketing strategy, to echelonpress@gmail.com no later than midnight July 15, 2013. Four queries that indicate a strong understanding of the type of stories we are seeking will be acknowledged, a contract provided, and a full manuscript will be requested no later than August 1, 2013. The authors will have until December 15, 2013 to submit their completed stories for editing.
Given that these stories will be contracted before they are written, Echelon Press reserves the right to void any contract with an author it feels cannot fulfill the obligation of writing a complete story within the acceptable premise.
Authors should be aware that completed works is required to be between 15,000 and 20,000 words. There is no additional flexibility in the word count. All works must be suitable for readers 13 and older. This anthology will be published under the Echelon line, but we always strive to reach young readers.
Queries should include the following information:
Name
City, State
Web/Blog URL
Twitter ID
Facebook URL
Proposed anthology title
Proposed story outline (no more than 500 words)
Wings
It’s 1969. Catholic girls are a species of their own.
She is Talon Rose, half-blood daughter of a Comanche chief and a white captive. As an outlaw who prides herself on never having killed, she rides the Arizona badlands with Mexican bandits, rustling livestock to sell south of the border, and eludes a “hang on sight” order. . . until a US Marshal captures her. Taken to an American army camp deep in the Huachuca Mountains and forced to scout with Apaches, she is soon caught in a triangle wrought with desire.
Doctor Jonathan Anderson is having the worst day of his life.
One by one, Laura Armstrong’s friends and adoptive family members are being murdered, and despite her special healing powers, there is nothing she can do to stop it. The killer haunts her dreams and leaves cryptic notes advising her to use her powers to save herself because she’s next.
Donna Galanti is a member of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group and a regular attendee at the Philadelphia Liars Club Writer’s Coffeehouse. If she couldn’t write she would bike, hike, and kayak every day. She’s also the author of a memoir Letters from BootCamp (iUniverse), written after a stint as a U.S. Navy photographer in Hawaii. She holds a B.A. in English from SUNY Albany and is an entrepreneur at heart with a background in marketing. She operated a resume writing service for years until she closed up shop to write novels. Donna dreamed of being a writer at seven years old when she fell in love with Narnia and Roald Dahl. She lived in England at the time, attending school in a magical castle where her imagination ran wild in an itchy uniform (bowling hat and tie included). She now lives in Pennsylvania with her family and two crazy cats in an old farmhouse. It has lots of writing nooks, fireplaces and stink bugs, but she’s still wishing for a castle again. Visit her at: 
Fiona Gavelle is living a dismal existence. She works in a dusty law office where she does more secretarial than lawyer work and her husband thinks she should work and keep house simultaneously.
One heart: two men.
