Last month I announced that I had back to back book deals with Travelers’ Tales, and that we didn’t know which would come first. I really thought it was going to be Cheap Stingy Bastards, but the official word as of this weekend is that the demand is greater for the next women’s humor book. Some of you are sending in your submissions titled Sand III, and that works. We know where to file you.
But for everyone else, start and finish up those hilarious Ms. Adventures in a hurry.
DEADLINE: January 15
If you don’t know what we’re talking about, please read Sand in My Bra: Funny Women Write from the Road and/or Whose Panties Are These?.
They have been quite a hit and we’re ready to deliver more stories from women whose trips didn’t quite go the way they expected them to.
Here are more details from before:
The Thong Also Rises
This is the lead title and the one that is cracking us up over here at Travelers’ Tales. What does this mean? It means you need to GET WRITING! We need stories. Crazy stories. I want to see misadventures that are more outrageous than the last two books. Surely, you’ve encountered the truly bizarre. No whiners, just damn hilarious, TRUE stories, please.
Here’s the thing, we need them fast. Real fast if we want to get the book out next year. I’m going to put the deadline at December 15, but I’ll be able to let you know in a month if there will be an extension on that. The stories that come in sooner have a better chance. Especially if they are not quite perfect.
[EXTENSION UNTIL JAN 15]
Travelers’ Tales submission guidelines can be found on their website. To add to that, I prefer humor stories to be shorter rather than longer. Preferably under 2000 words. We pay $100 for a story with a copy of the book and offer you 50% off all TT titles for life. While it might look like we don’t have a format, we like them to be first person, no journal entires (Day 1, Day 2, Day 3) . Most formatting that would break up the story into several segments doesn’t usually work, though we do take submissions with elipses in them. If you have a question about formatting, just ask me. But do not query your story ideas, just turn them in to submit at travelerstales dot com and jen at jen leo dot comor by sending hardcopy to:
Travelers’ Tales
ATTN: women’s humor
330 Townsend Street, Suite 208
San Francisco, CA 94107
Ok, lets get laughing! Unfortunately, this book is only open to women.
Only open to women? Not fair, not fair. Or is there is a travel book, written by men, to be read by men, coming up? You never know.