These guidelines are presented here for prospective writers for Chivalry & Sorcery products.
CORRESPONDENCE
Perhaps the single most important rule is the need for you to provide a stamped, addressed envelope (SAE) with any written communication you send us, to enable us to reply. If you send in a manuscript and you want it returned if it is not accepted for publication, your SAE must be large enough to hold the manuscript, with enough postage affixed to carry the submission back to you. If you do not want the manuscript pages back, you still need to provide us with a letter-sized SAE into which we can place our response.
All correspondence with us must be by mail or e-mail. We ask you not to telephone (partly due to time differences but also to ensure that you do not waste a telephone call if the person you need to speak to is not available).
SUBMISSIONS
A copy of our Standard Disclosure Form is included with these guidelines. Please photocopy and ensure that a COMPLETED FORM is included with each manuscript or outline that you send us.
If you have an idea for a manuscript, please submit a one-page outline before you actually start writing. This is a quick and easy way to describe the material you wish to write and enables us to assess its cohesion with other products both already in existence and those planned for the future. We will then respond and let you know whether to continue with the manuscript in its present form or whether amendments to you idea could included at this stage to ensure it fits with the C&S Family of products.
If you have not previously sent an outline to us, then please send a covering letter with each full submission. Include in the letter a brief description of the manuscript submitted and any other information you feel is relevant.
If you wish to be receive a confirmation of our receipt of your manuscript, then we suggest that you either use a method where the delivery is signed for or enclose a stamped, addressed postcard with your submission. We can then send this back to you when your submission arrives so confirming receipt. However, we cannot assume any responsibility for the transit and safekeeping of manuscripts and other materials sent to us.
Always keep at least one hard (paper) copy of each of your manuscripts.
Electronic Submissions - if it is possible for you to provide us with a copy of your manuscript on a computer diskette (assuming the submission is accepted, of course), please let us know that in your cover letter when you send in the submission. We prefer submissions to be in Word 97 format or RTF, however this is not exclusive. If we want to publish your manuscript, we will ask you to send us a diskette, which we will not return, and discuss format of the document at this time. Always send your manuscript in printed form (hard copy) initially - DO NOT send submissions via the e-mail unless requested in writing by us.
| All submissions should be sent to: | Brittannia Game Designs Ltd 94 Laurel Road Dudley West Midlands DY1 3EZ UK |
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EVALUATION OF MATERIAL SUBMITTED
We may need as long as twelve weeks to make our evaluation of your submission. If you have not heard from us after this much time, feel free to contact by mail or email about the status of your material. Please do not contact us by telephone, as you may not get to speak to the person concerned.
STYLE AND CONTENT
Please remember first of all that a non-player character or player character is a fictional personality created for a role-playing game. A player is a real person who plays a game and controls the PC or NPC. DO NOT CONFUSE THESE TWO TERMS IN YOUR TEXT!