Open for Submissions for the Utter Speculation Novella Series

Please read and Follow All Guidelines Carefully or your story may be discarded without being read.

 The Utter Speculation series speculates about what is behind real mysteries and legends. The stories can be based on facts or complete fiction. They can be rooted in real world explanations or supernatural causes, but they need to answer the question, what causes this?

When a mystery cannot be solved, an author can speculate.

Stranger Things is a wild speculation on the Philadelphia Experiment. The Terror is a speculation on The HMS Terror Arctic Expedition that is much closer to the truth. An American Haunting is a speculation on the Bell Witch legend. These are the kind of stories we’re looking for.

Novellas should be 20,000 – 35,000 words

Include a query with a story summary and a bio with the full manuscript.

Formatted in Shunn format style

We’d really like to see more paranormal speculations on famous ghost stories, UFO encounters, and shady experiments.

Use QueryManager to submit your story.

https://QueryTracker.net/query/SpecPub

To submit to the query manager you need to upload your complete manuscript, .doc and .docx files, formatted in standard Shunn Format, (double spaced, times new roman ect)

Have your name, word count and email at the top of the story document.

Format files with the project title, story title and author name in the name. For example : UtterSpec- Pontefract Boogaloo- DeLancy