Co-editor Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books writes that Night Shade “is actively seeking zombie novels. Romeroesque end of the world zombie apocalypse novels.” He’s asking for complete manuscripts as RTF or Word files, as long as they “don’t suck”, at jlassen at nightshadebooks dot com, using the subject line “Zombie Novel Submission.” He’s also emphatic that the open submission period for these novels is September and October 2008, only. Manuscripts received after 31 October will be deleted unread. For everything else (and under normal circumstances), Night Shade only accepts submissions from agents, so this is your chance, unagented zombie novelists.
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