Children's Stories Author's Submissions
Free Children's Stories by Leading Authors
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Submit your Free Story for publication Outline New and existing authors of any age, including children, are welcome to submit their short Children's Stories here for publication. You can also include pictures to illustrate your story. Free stories are aimed at helping children:
We change our free children's story selections from our library frequently and email our 1000's of readers about new stories. We provide unlimited access to our entire library for a small fee to help cover costs. We also publish selections of stories from time to time in eBooks for most eReaders including Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android devices, laptops, PC's and in print. Some versions may include narration (audio track). Some may require a small download or print on demand fee through the supplier to cover costs. For example Amazon's current (Mar 2013) smallest download fee is £0.77p ($1.20 US). Promoting Authors We promote the good work of Children's Authors who help and encourage children to enjoy reading. We publish the Authors name or Pen Name with the authors story and may also, at our option include an introduction to the author or Special Promotion, for example please see Elliots Amazing Adventures button top left (part of this collection will soon be available on Kindle). We make Free Children's stories available to all to help parents and others encourage children to enjoy traditional reading, promote good authors and Childrens Stories Net as a source of Children's Stories. All stories are checked for suitability before they are published and are proof read and corrected as neccessary (small fee may apply). Unsuitable stories may not be published entirely at our option. Website visitors are encouraged to "freely print a single paper copy of the entire story page for their own domestic private use, individual qualified Teachers may also similarly freely print additional paper copies for teaching purposes within their own educational establishment". Free Help For Authors We accept stories in Plain Text and other well known formats (eg: MS Word and OpenOffice), so no need for expensive or complicated software, short stories can be pasted into this page, see 'Submit Your Story Here' further down. We prefer not to receive stories on paper by post, extra time is needed to type these in. If there are special circumstances (eg: computer breakdown) then please contact us before sending by post. Download our Submission Guide Click Here As a writer you may know of 'Microsoft Word' the most common word processor, subject to version, this can cost between £80 and £400 ($120 to $600 US), in some cases Microsoft requires a yearly renewal fee, in short prohibitively expensive for some. The Good News you can have a very good equivalent 'OpenOffice' absolutely free and above board (sponsored by: The Apache Software Foundation). Open Office works in an almost identical way to Microsoft Word, thus existing skills transfer easily. More good news is OpenOffice can work with existing Microsoft Word files (most versions) so no compatability problems. 
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Help With Illustrations 
You will see from our story selections currently available that some are illustrated and some are not.
Illustrations are not compulsory, some stories are fine without, others benefit from illustrations. Not every one can produce illustrations, there's numerous sources of Free Clip Art which can be found through Google search. Photographs can also provide a good means of illustration, the example cover for 'True Shih Tzu Stories - Lucy's Adventures - by Lucy Sitzu™', the photograph does the job very well. We have our own in house graphics facilities which may be able to help you. For example the titles on the "Lucy's Adventures" cover were added to an original photo. You can request help with graphics and illustrations on the submission form below, please bear in mind we may not be able to provide what everyone would like. By submitting your Free Story (and any pictures) to us you confirm you are the rights owner or writer and grant us indefinite (in perpetuity) non exclusive publication rights to your material in any media. In addition we may edit, add to and abridge the whole or portions of your material for promotional and publication purposes and to help ensure the best result from your story, such altered versions may be subject to some joint copyright. Submit Your Story Here If you have not already registered your email address for Free Stories, then please do that first, click the 'Free Story Access' button top left of this page. If your email address has not been verified the form below will fail. If your are under 16 years old you should discuss this with a parent, teacher or guardian. We will never disclose your details or email address to anyone (unless the law requires it), you can write under a Pen Name if you wish to protect your identity from the public, we will only disclose the Pen Name with your story. NB: Titles can only include upper and lower case A to Z, 0 to 9, space, hyphen " - " and asterisk " ' ". The title word convention is: Capital first letters to each word or single letters, then lower case. Do not use full stops (periods) after single letters Brief story outline (synopsis) to encouarge readers: NB:Leave a blank line to separate paragraphs, otherwise do not press return to end lines, text wraps. Allowed text characters are upper and lower case A to Z, 0 to 9 and ! £ $ * ( ) - + = : ; . , @ ' " ?, click in the text area to activate the cursor before pasting in plain text (no formating other than paragraphs)
If your story has no pictures and is under 5000 words long, you can paste it into the box below befor clicking the Submit Story button at the bottom. If your story is longer than 5000 words or has pictures then please just Submit this form without the story, we will contact you by email about sending your story content to us. Short Story (under 5000 words) you can paste it into the area below: NB:Leave a blank line to separate paragraphs, otherwise do not press return to end lines, text wraps. Allowed text characters are upper and lower case A to Z, 0 to 9 and ! £ $ * ( ) - + = : ; . , @ ' " ?, click in the text area to activate the cursor before pasting in plain text (no formating other than paragraphs) When you've checked everything please click the 'Submit Story' button below, we will immediately send you a confirmation email. Submit Story After we've had time to go through your details we will get in touch by email. You can contact us at any time, click the 'Contact Us' button at the top of this page. |
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