SiteChicken Soup Publisher Looking for Essays
Here’s a note from HCI, publishers of the Chicken Soup series and the Ultimate series:
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This is just a quick reminder of deadlines coming up for submissions from writers and photographers for the Ultimate series from HCI Books.
We’re looking for “slice-of-life” stories and photos that are inspirational, motivational, humorous or thought-provoking. Here’s what’s looming, please don’t procrastinate - we’re already evaluating stories (thank you if you’ve already sent one!):
submission deadline June 30, 2008(*) The Ultimate Christmas (pub date Nov 2008)
submission deadline July 31, 2008 The Ultimate Teacher (pub date Feb 2009)
submission deadline August 31, 2008 The Ultimate Mom (pub date March 2009)
submission deadline September 30, 2008 The Ultimate Dad (pub date April 2009)
All the details you’ll need (e.g. what we pay, our guidelines, book synopses, and a full list of titles in development) can be found at www.ultimatehcibooks.com.
Links on the main menu will provide access to pages of details.
(*) contracts on The Ultimate Christmas stories and photos chosen for publication will go out to writers and photographers on or before July 15, 2008.
4 Responses to “Chicken Soup Publisher Looking for Essays”
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Star
Said this on June 16th, 2008 at 1:19pm:Is this Chicken Soup thing spec and pretty low-fee? Kind of like a contest without a good prize?
Connie Brooks
Said this on June 23rd, 2008 at 12:47pm:@ Star - Probably!
But it’s still intriguing..
Besides, it sounds like it might be a fun topic to brainstorm on. We all have those moments, and I’ll bet we rarely write about them.
Lisa Russell
Said this on July 6th, 2008 at 2:51am:I think the link is wrong- it said hack3d by snyper-3 and the site was something about terrorism, didn’t look like a chicken soup-type book publisher.
LindaFormichelli
Said this on July 7th, 2008 at 1:13pm:It works OK for me…maybe they were hacked and just got it fixed.