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Submissions

If you want to have your work of fiction featured on Night Reads all you have to do is follow the below submission guidelines. By submitting a selection to be read you state that you own all of the legal copyrights for any materials submitted and that you give me permission to display promotional materials on these websites: www.brian-basham.com and http://brianbasham.blogspot.com/p/night-reads.html. You also give Brian Basham permission to perform a reading of your work as a live broadcast as well as uploading the resulting video to YouTube. If at any time you wish for these materials to be removed from YouTube or this website you can send an email to the same email listed below for submissions.

 Submission Guidelines

Submission guidelines have changed for Season 2! These are not set in stone yet and they may change over time. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. I recommend including all of these within your submissions. If you leave out a required field then I will delete the submission and Godzilla may set your village on fire (no promises!). Anything not labeled as required below is optional.
  • Author name / Pen name (required)
  • Title of the work (required)
  • Genre (required) - example: Romance, SciFi, Fantasy, etc.
  • Audience (required) - example: Young Adult, Middle Grade, Adult, etc.
  • Purchase link (required)
  • Copy of the cover graphic or picture of the book - This will be resized to fit within the website (required)
  • Author Headshot - This will be resized to about 400 pixels in height
  • Your website and/or the website for the book
  • 500 (or less) word summary
  • Author Bio
  • Link to your favorite 1-3 social media profiles (at least 1 required)
  • Lead In - If your reading selection requires some context then please provide a bit of explanation that I can relay to those watching.
  • Reading selection - A selection of 600 to 1200 words in length from your work. I don't want your entire manuscript, just the portion you want me to read. Please include where each selection comes from using page number or chapter number to help everyone get a sense of where we are. Please submit submissions in .pdf or .doc file formats. I'm not going to try to decipher formats that are difficult to read. (required
All submissions can be sent by email to nrsubmissions@gmail.com. Please put "Submission:" and your work's title in the Subject line of your email.

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