Author's Tips
Copyright
We retain the copyright [First North American and International Electronic Serial Rights (FNASR)] for the month in which it is published and then the copyright goes back to you. You may publish it again elsewhere as you see fit—mention of Lit Chaos is much appreciated. In addition, we reserve the right to publish it again or include it in later anthologies.For your peace of mind, cynics, we suggest you use the "poor writer's copyright" at the very least. That is, send your work to yourself on a clear day when there won't be any smudging of the postmark, and then don't open the envelope. This will protect you from any theft by a person with significantly less financial recourse than you. If a multinational company wants the idea in that envelope, well, that's that.
Publicity
The website generates it's own readership (kind of), but you should tell your friends and family as much as you can. You are your own best advertiser. Persistence works. To see Lit Chaos's readership click here to visit site meter. In addition, we have added going up which tracks visits to litchaos.com since 6 February 2008. You can find a link on the home page.If you have a blog or website, please link to litchaos.com or your page on litchaos.com. We would be happy to reciprocate. The more people we reach the more you reach and vice-versa, so please publicize.
Style
Mark Twain said "that the difference between the word and the right word is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning".The style is up to you but make if powerful, captivating, brilliant.
For some insight, consider this: most work that is not accepted here is dismissed because it's too complicated. The editors here have generally small brains that are inundated with allergy drugs, alcohol, severe lack of sleep and other substances such as yogurt—did I mention drugs?—peanuts, being oversexed, malaise, depravity, whatever.... Hence, please keep the work accessible for even the feeble minded. We want experimental yet understandable. Italo Calvino may be the greatest example of this kind of style. But, please no imitations. This critique is at the level of sentence construction, nothing more. The rest is up to you.
Rejection
Please don't take it personally and get voodoo dolls out on us if we don't take your work. Perhaps, your work is not right for us, or we don't get it the way it's intended. Somebody else may love it. Perhaps our brains are too small to comprehend your genius. Don't be at all discouraged. Tenacity is part of this. Feel free to try again eslewhere with the same piece. Also, try again with a us with a new piece.
