Guideline Offenders

AlienSkin Magazine_® endeavors to feature and promote genre writers.  We especially strive to promote and educate fledgling writers, who are trying to gain an audience.

One of the main lessons new writers have to learn is how to seek out and follow a their target market's submission guidelines.  But unfortunately, it isn't always the newbie writers who fail to take the time to follow simple instructions.

Tiring of endlessly slapping hands and directing writers back to our submission guidelines, we thought we might try a more eye opening approach.  We've decided to list the name of each writer who submitted inappropriately.  We've included which guideline rule each writer chose to ignore.

While some of the writers listed below quickly rectified their error and resubmitted in proper fashion, others did not.  We can only assume the writers who did not resubmit must consider themselves above everyone else.  For them, rules and guidelines mean nothing.

Woe to them, and woe to all of you who appear of the following list. 

Josiah Grahn, Kentucky:
Two Separate Submissions with Improper Format
(we allow 3 different types)

Jason Howell, North Carolina:
Improper Format (we allow 3 different types)

William Jones, Jr., Arkansas:
Submitted Featured Fiction Story During Closure
to Submissions for That Category

Alex Mair, United kingdom:
Improper Format (we allow 3 different types)

London Novak, Illinois:
Improper Format (we allow 3 different types)

Robert Porter, Illinois:
Submitted Featured Fiction Story During Closure
to Submissions for That Category

Romancebo:
Failed to Include Proper Contact Information
(Included Above Email Name Only)

Tony Thorne:
Improper Format (we allow 3 different types)
& Failed to Include Proper Contact Information

Timothy Wilkie, Kentucky:
Improper Format (we allow 3 different types)
& Submitted a Story of 5,800 words
(our word Count Max is 3,500 words)