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I am seeing a number of posts on twitter of writers who I've heard of who haven't heard of ALCS. As we have some new members I thought it worth re-iterating:- If you have had anything published in a book or magazine in the UK in the last 3 years, register. You may think it won't be worth it. IT will! And you only pay the £25 membership once, and then only out of anything you make, so if you don't make enough to cover it you pay nothing. There is nothing to lose.
Use the search function to find earlier posts on this. Really. Do it!
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One question - for anyone in the know - where it says 'other contributers' am I going to have to fill in all 364(ish) names from the '365 days of Horror' I appeared in?!?!
Made sure I added my story from Cafe Lit 4 last year. You can get the ISBN from looking the book up on Amazon- if you don't have a hard copy.
See if it will accept the number rather than the names. They can always ask for them if they want them...
Anyhologies need an ISBN and other publications need an ISSN. If it hasn't got one, then it doesn't count for ALCS.
Several of my stories are still waiting for approval after almost a year, and I don't know if it's because of this apparent glitch, or because they're from anthologies put together by competition organisers using POD services and therefore don't count. The anthologies do all have ISBNs, though.
Are all those outstanding ones UK anthologies?
PoD books still count as long as they have an ISBN.
Whether I get paid anything for them is impossible to say!
I try to spend it on something writing related, like a critique or a writers' conference.
I know we've earned it, but it still feels like a free gift!
I'm going to buy a new laptop with mine , which I was going to buy with a poetry comp prize last year but I didn't get around to it and that money has now been spent on other unidentifiable things. This time I will get my act together!
Thanks again to those wise souls on here who helped encourage me to sign up with ALCS. Much appreciated!
Don't forget to add your Writers Forum story!
Trying to enter ISSN for WM and getting a big fat no. What am I doing wrong?
Then after I entered all my articles I realised I'd done them for the month it said on the front of the mag rather than one month earlier when they were actually published...and there doesn't seem to be a way to edit :S