TOY SOLDIER
guidelines for PROSPECTIVE WRITERS
This is the section where we help you to help us. If you
think you've got what it takes to write for Toy Soldier then follow our
guidelines and you'll have more than a modest chance.
We've kicked off this section with tips on how to send your
articles to Toy Soldier. Over the next few weeks we'll be adding guides
on how to send images with your articles and how to write, SOLDIER STYLE!
 Please send us your article in any of the following
ways: (we’ve listed them in order of preference – our preference)
Number one in our writer’s hit parade:
Email it direct to us on mark@ashdown.co.uk (we just love to get copy
this way. We jump up and down and kiss the screen. It makes our life sooooo easy. And it
helps avoid those silly mistaeks that can happen in retypong.
Number two in the copy charts:
Send us a disc. PC format is ideal, but we can accept most
other discs too. Please include a hard copy printout of the text. Yes, I know we’re
supposed to be the paperless office, but you’ll be surprised how many people send
discs with 63 files on them, including last month’s grocery list, and expect us
magically to know which particular file they intend for us to use. (If you see Mr
Abbott’s grocery list printed in the magazine you know we picked the wrong one.)
In an ideal world you will save your copy in Microsoft
Word, Rich Text Format (.RTF or .TXT file extension!). Failing that,
most other text formats will be fine.
Number 3:
Send us your article printed out by laser printer in deep
black ink on beautiful virgin white paper, double spaced, with no doodling in the margins,
or anywhere else for that matter (doodling plays hell with our scanners).
Number 4:
The old faithful. We’ve heard all the stories about
your emotional attachment to those solid metal lines and chunky keys, and far be it for us
to tear you away from your trusty typewriter that’s been with you since the fifth
form. But for our sanity’s sake…change the damn ribbon before you send us your
copy.
Number 5:
Hand-written. Aaaaagh. You’ve no idea how it makes the
heart sink to approach the morning collection of editorial envelopes brightly, only to
find them filled with scrawled jottings that would try the patience of those guys who
study the inside of Egyptian tombs for a living.
But we do accept hand-written articles. We’ll even
take your copy written in faded biro on the back of an old till roll from the supermarket.
But …it had better be a piece of prose to rival Hemingway. If not it goes straight in
the bin.
Send your articles to:
Toy Soldier Article submissions dept, Avalon Court, Star Road,
Partridge Green, West Sussex, RH13 8RY ENGLAND.
or preferably,
mark@ashdown.co.uk
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