How to Submit Your Stuff to Naughtygirlx.com

Fiction Submission Guidelines
Comedy Submission Guidelines
A Note About Copyright Protection

Don't forget to read our Legal Poop

Fiction Submission Guidelines:

Story guidelines:
Naughtygirlx.com is looking for humourous original unpublished fiction. If it's funny and fictional, send it over. We are mainly looking for short stories, but will accept poetry, essays, flash fiction, comics, novellas, and complete novels to be published as an excerpt or in a serial format (though we're not really sure why anyone would want to do this to their novel).

SciFi, fantasy, erotica, mystery, thriller, action, horror, whatever, so long as it's funny, it's welcome.

Naughtygirlx.com does not accept reprints, if your piece has been published in whole or in part do not send it to us. We have neither the time nor resources to sort out the potential copyright crap.

Who can submit?
Anyone! Anyone who at the time of submitting the work is over the age of 18. Burgeoning writers, old pros, talented dabblers, so long as you're legal, and the legal author of the work, you are welcome to submit it.

Will it be edited?
We are unlikely to publish a story that we feel requires extensive editing. However if we are excited about your story and feel a minor edit would make it publishable, then yes, we reserve the right to make editorial changes as needed.

Submission guidelines:
Submit as many pieces as you'd like, but please limit them to one per email.

Flash Fiction and Poetry: either attach your file or send it in the body of the email. If you attach your file, it should be in .doc .docx .rtf or .txt format.

Short Stories, Novellas: attach your file, do not paste into the body of the email. Stories should be in .doc .docx .rtf or .txt format.

Novels: please query with a short synopses and a brief account of why you would want your novel published on our site. If this proves sufficiently that you're not a total psycho, then we'll contact you with a request to submit.

Comics: please query with a brief description. If this proves sufficiently that you're not a total psycho or at the very least, pose no threat to our computers or servers, then we'll contact you with a request to submit.

Submissions should be sent via email to ngx@naughtygirlx.com, with the word Submission! in the subject line. You don't have to include the exclamation point, but it can't hurt.

What to expect?
Within a week of sending your submission you will receive a confirmation email letting you know that we received your stuff. If you don't get this email within a week, assume that something has gone horribly wrong in cyberspace send it to us again. We really do want to read your work. You will definitely hear back from us regarding whether or not we are interested in publishing your story, likely within three weeks.

If we decide to publish your work you will be required to electronically sign a release form (i.e. click 'agree'), granting us first serial rights to the piece. You will also be invited to submit a short bio, a picture or avatar, and whatever other contact information you desire to have associated with your piece (website, email, etc).

You will be notified of the projected date of publication in the acceptance letter. The length of time that Naughtygirlx.com holds the rights to your work spans from the day that you sign the release form to the date we remove your story from the website and add you to our archive list. This date is generally 6 weeks from publication, and will be stated in your acceptance letter. You are to refrain from submitting the accepted piece elsewhere, or publishing it in any form (even on your own website!) during this time. You are of course welcome to blog/tweet/broadcast in any form the glorious news of when and where your work will be published!

Compensation:
Naughty and Girl X would love to lavish financial rewards upon every writer we publish, but we can't see any feasible way to do this without turning tricks. However, we fully believe that you should be compensated for your work so ...

Published poets, essayists, and flash authors will receive an adorable original doodle penned by Girl X, this will likely be of a sultry cat but you never know!

Published comic authors will receive a bar of fair trade chocolate! Delicious! If you would prefer the picture of a cat, let us know!

Published short story authors, novella authors, and novelists will receive both the adorable doodle as well as the fair trade chocolate bar!

** Note, if you are outside of North America, we can only reward you with the picture of the cat (or whatever Girl X is drawing that day) **

If you have further questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact us via our contact form or email. Beware! If your question has already been answered onsite, then we'll be very displeased and will be forced to make a voodoo doll of you and have angry sex with it. Take that!

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Comedy Submission Guidelines:

Naughtygirlx.com is pleased to provide an intimate cyber venue for all you comedians to showcase your talent and humour. Increase your fanbase, promote your upcoming gigs, and be fawned upon by an adoring audience.

What kind of comedy will you accept?
The funny kind. Do your thing, whatever it may be and if we think it's funny, we're up for it: props, ventriloquism (though that tends to freak Girl X out), using your dead grandmother for a comedic marionette routine, or regular stand up - whatever. Preference is given to routines performed and recorded in front of a live club audience, but we're open.

What won't you post?
Hateful shit. Good comedy is often provocative, and naughtygirlx.com isn't big on censorship, so we don't shy away from routines that use racism, sexism, or dark themes to facilitate humour. However, if we start to believe that you might seriously be a racist, sexist, homophobic, baby fucker, well that's where you've crossed into the promotion of hate and we're not into that.

Submission Guidelines:
Preferably, your set is already available online (YouTube etc), in which case you should simply email us the link. Put the word Submission! in the subject line (exclamation point not required) and send it to ngx@naughtygirlx.com

If your set is not online you should email us with a request to submit video. Once we're sure that you're not likely to send us dangerous files, we'll send you an email letting you know that your submission is welcome. Most common file types should be fine, just nothing too obscure or weird and no zipped files.

You are welcome and encouraged to send a bio with your set. You write it we'll include it. Ideally your bio would be about 100 words and would include your name (or stage persona) and a little about yourself/your comedic history. If you have a website we're happy to post the link and if you have any upcoming gigs, give us the details and we'll post that too. If viewers like your stuff they're going to want to see more of you, so make it easy for them.

If naughtygirlx.com is going to be hosting your set, it should be no more than 3 minutes long. If the set is hosted elsewhere (i.e. your own website/YouTube/etc) then sets can be up to 8 minutes long.

What to expect?
Within a week of sending your submission you will receive a confirmation email letting you know that we received your stuff. If you don't get this email within a week, assume that something has gone horribly wrong in cyberspace send it to us again. We really do want to watch your set. You will definitely hear back from us regarding whether or not we are going to post your video, likely within three weeks.

If we decide to post your set you will receive an email notifying you of when it'll go up and when to expect it to come down. Most sets will remain available on site for up to four weeks. Our aim is to give as many comics as much exposure as we can so if you have submitted a link to your website, that will remain in our archive indefinitely.

What about copyrights?
We're just helping you promote yourself, you retain complete legal rights to your work. If at anytime you wish to have your set removed from naughtygirlx.com you will simply email us stating as such and within two weeks your set will be pulled. Though, we can't think of why anyone of sound mind would ever want to do this! Seriously, doing this will make us very sad.

What if someone steals my act?
Suck it up, sweet cheeks. There's always a chance that someone might steal your jokes. That's the risk of public performance, whether online or onstage. However, you wrote the joke, which means even if someone steals it, you can write more jokes that might even be better. The comic thief can't. Besides, it'll get around that a comic is stealing material and eventually Karma will give them the kind of haemorrhoids no one can laugh about.

If you have further questions or concerns, you are welcome to contact naughtygirlx.com via our contact form or via email. Beware! If your question has already been answered onsite, then we'll be very displeased and will be forced to make a voodoo doll of you and have angry sex with it. Take that!

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*A Note About Copyright Protection*
How is my copyright protected when I'm on the web?
Well, it isn't. We're not going to lie to you, anything you post on the web or publish in any form is at risk of copyright infringement. If you're really worried about someone stealing your stuff, you should probably take a Percocet and a vodka shot and see if that doesn't help you chillax. There isn't much you can do to protect your work from being stolen, but you can take pre-emptive steps in case you ever have to defend your intellectual property rights:

• Take any of your stories/video of yourself delivering your jokes, and email them to yourself using an encrypted public server like hushmail (hotmail/gmail are okay, but if you ever actually have to go to court or something, an encrypted public server will be more credible). These servers encode a time stamp (along with a ton of other identifying information like your location and ISP) on your email, and since it's a public system it is much less likely that you could have changed their encrypted code. This doesn't prove that you own this intellectual property but at the very least it can help establish that YOU were in possession of this material prior to the thief in question.
• Burn the aforementioned story/video to a disc or print it out in full and send it to yourself via registered mail. You should be able to get away with regular post but be sure to run a continuous piece of tape around the envelope after it's sealed. Start and end where you're going to place the stamp(s) and be sure the tape crosses all potential openings on the envelope (top and bottom flaps). Now place your stamp on top of this. This will act as an unbreakable seal which will further demonstrate that the envelope has never been opened. A potential problem with not using registered mail is that the dates on those postmarks can sometimes be blurry or otherwise illegible.
  Limit yourself to only one protected item per envelop and leave the envelope unopened until you ever need them. Be sure to label the outside of the envelope before you send it to avoid confusion later on (especially if you do this with numerous items).
• Keeping any submission emails in your sent folder complete with the attached file(s), and subsequent acceptance/rejections also can't hurt.