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bad ass faeriesThe Bad-Ass Faeries series from Mundania Press is about to close to submissions for its 4th edition. The next book in the Bad-Ass Faeries series will be It’s Elemental. Still edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Lee C. Hillman, and Jeffrey Lyman, this book will feature tales about specific fae from legends where they are associated with various elements.

Bad-Ass Faeries 4 – It’s Elemental
edited by Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Lee C. Hillman, and Jeffrey Lyman
Submit To: Danielle Ackley-McPhail greenfirephoenix@aol.com

Familiarity with the existing Bad-Ass Faeries titles is recommended if you have not submitted to us previously. They are your best guide to the types of stories we are looking for in this series. You can fine excepts at www.badassfaeries.com/excerpts.htm or you can find the complete books for sale in print or ebook via the publisher’s website or on the major book-selling sites.

Genre: Urban Fantasy
Deadline: June 2011
Release Date: May 2012
Word Limit: 3500 to 7000 words, MAX

Premise: A collection of unconventional stories about bad-ass elemental faeries with a focus on urban fantasy. Faeries should interact with the human world in some capacity visualized as tough, and for this collection, in a logical profession that is linked to their element: truckers, deep-sea fishermen, cowboys, police, firemen, freedom fighters, crocodile wrestlers, paratrooper, sled-dog driver, etc. We are not really looking for specific known figures from faerie mythology so much as types of faeries from myth and legend with a very clearly defined affinity for one specific element. (Please see below for some recommendations, and also note the category for those already spoken for).

Earth Air Fire Water Spirit Taken

Book will have four (or five) sections, one for each element: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, (Spirit). This means that competition will be fiercer because we will be accepting stories by section as well as by overall quality.

Submission Don’ts

1) Don’t call your faeries elementals, we want specific faeries from myth and legend that are affiliated to one of the elements. Please see below for some recommendations.

2) Don’t include faeries from all of the elements in your story…it will not improve your chances and it will limit us in our ability to select and place a story. Each story should have one primary element incorporated into the plot. Not saying you can’t mention the others or have them as secondary aspects of the story, but we don’t want a bunch of submissions that are Gang of Four style or this element against that element. We want bad-ass stories of elemental faeries using their unique natures to get the job done…whatever it is.

3) Please note that we are not looking for erotica, or extreme violence, language, or gore.

Submission Do’s

1) Use standard submission format: Double spaced, tab indent (NOT auto indent), double hyphen with no spaces before or after to indicate emdashes. Ellipses with no spaces before or after. Use the actual formats for bold, italics and underline. Formatting Guidelines.

2) Include COMPLETE contact information at the top of your submission. Snailmail and email address, including phone number.

3) Include a short author bio with your submission (do NOT use all caps or quotation marks to indicate titles, please make sure they are Title Case and in italics.)

4) Authors MUST submit a proposal before writing and submitting their stories. This is the only way we can avoid overlap among the submissions. The editors do not want to be put in a position of having to reject an otherwise exemplary story because it happens to have too many similarities to something we have already accepted.

5) Include an author’s note about the specific type of faerie you have selected for absolute clarity and to provide some background information to the editors about the particular myth dealing with that faerie. This is optional, but helpful. Anything that makes the editors’ jobs easier is a good thing.

Specifics:

Publisher: Mundania Press, www.mundania.com

Collection will be published in print, ebook and possibly limited edition hardcover.

Contributors will receive one comp copy of the book and an equal share of the royalties, which are 20% for print and 50% for electronic.

ELEMENTAL FAERIES

All the below faeries have been gleened from internet searches and the recommendations of others so please do research whatever faerie you chose to confirm it is appropriate for the indicated element. You are not limited to the below selections, but if you chose something else you need to provide references to why that particular faerie is affiliated with the element you propose.

Earth

Bally Bogs – forest spirits

Dockalfar – (Norse) dark elves that are blacker than pitch and live beneath the ground

Dwarves – They are short, stocky and strong. If they are struck by sunlight, they will turn to stone.

Faun – faerie creatures of fertility, agriculture, and wine. Their lower body is that of a deer and they play the flute.

Fauni – guardians of the forest and fields

Ghillie Dhu – (Scotland) tree guardians that dislike humans.

Goblins – evil or mischievous creature related to the gnome.

Gnome – An elemental being that governs and exists within the Earth. Guardian of the mines.

Grim – wail foretells death of those who are ill. Appears as a large black dog or an owl.

Naga – night elves that have transformed into vengeful sea serpents.

Oni – (Japan) demon creatures, fearful, strong and giant.

Piskies – mischievous faeries that love practical jokes and lead travelers astray. They like the land and caves.

Satyr – A lascivious woodland deity that is part man and part goat, also called the hairy one. (Greek)

Shefro – male faeries that lead travelers astray in the woods. The wear a red cap and green coat.

Wichtlein – A mine-fairy that announces death by knocking three times. (German) Also called Knockers.

Air

Anthropophagi – (England) A headless cannibal faerie. Name translates to man-eating.

Ariel – the king of air elementals, and controls all the powers of air.

Caccavecchia – elves that cause nightmares and strange sounds in the night.

Guriuz – bring good weather to farmers.

Hyter Sprites – (East Anglian) faeries that appear as birds, admonish parents for neglecting children, and return lost children.

Kamaitachi – Japanese wind spirit (appears as three weasels)

Kumbhandas – Hindu wind spirits

Lauru – a race of sprites affiliated with air. Diminutive and rarely seen during the day.

Orchi – mean-spirited giants that live in the clouds.

Sila – (Inuit) a spirit that lives far above the earth and controlled the weather, but punishes human misdeeds with sickness and bad weather.

Thunderbird – (Native American) a supernatural bird of power and strength, not one you wish to anger

P-son-en – native American snow bird

Vily or Vile s. Vila or Veela [‘Whirlwind’] – (fairies that appear during storms.

Zephyrs – (air) the guardians of the winds.

Fire

Djinn – (Arabian) the offspring of fire, the good are beautiful the evil hideous. They can shapeshift as various animals or be invisible as they wish. (jinn or genie)

Drachen/Drake – Dragon, fire elemental

Efreeti – demon/djinn like creatures with a code of honor, associated with volcano. They enjoy evenly matched fights.

Firebirds/Phoenix – magical bird that never dies, reborn from the ashes of its own pyre.

Querciola – spirits that are particularly friendly to lovers.

Raiju – Japanese Thunder beast…animal but made of lightning or fire.

Salamander – A nature spirit that dwells within the element of fire.

Water

Alp Luachra – (Irish) evil faerie, invisible unless someone falls asleep by a stream. Turns into a newt and crawls down the person’s throat to their stomach where it eats any food that is consumed.

Alven (Netherlands) faeries that trap themselves in a bubble to fly since they don’t have wings. They can also appear wearing an otter skin. They live in lakes, rivers, and ponds. Their enemies are fish.

Ceffyl-Dwr – A flying water horse related to the fairy.

Each Uisge – A supernatural water horse that feeds on human flesh.

Encantado – A dolphin-like being with the ability to shape shift into human form.

Fir Darrig – (Irish) faerie known for being a practical joker. Can appear larger than he is, depicted as ugly.

Glaistig – could change her shape from woman, to half-woman, half-goat, to full goat. Lure passersby to carry her over the water then would devour them.

Gwragedd Annwn – traditionally Welsh water fairies, who occasionally take human men for husbands.

Gwyllion – A Scottish water fairy. They are mostly seen as a hairy men or hideous female spirits who waylay and mislead travelers by night on the mountain roads. Mountain fairies like to sit on rocks on either side of a mountain path and silently watch people as they pass by.

Kelpie – A supernatural water horse found near lakes and rivers in Scotland.

Merrow – A mermaid with green hair that lives off the coast of Ireland.

Naiad – A nymph associated with streams, lakes, springs and other bodies of freshwater.

Nixies – Faeries with green teeth and hats.

Nucklelavee (Scotland) malevolent sea faeries.

Octomaid – A being with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of an octopus.

River-Witch – A mermaid-like being.

Rusalka – (water) A type of mermaid known for seducing and killing human men. (Slavic)

Sea-trow – A monkey-faced sea creature with webbed fingers and seaweed hair. (Scottish)

Selkie – A seal-like being with the ability to shapeshift into human form.

Sprites – faeries found in cool, serene places. Very creative.

Urisk – (Scotland) a male water faerie, lonely but frightens people away because he is very ugly.

Vodyanai – (water) an unfriendly faerie that lives in a crystal palace at the bottom of a river, lake or sea. Decorates his palace with treasure from shipwrecks and can trap humans underwater as slaves, allowing them to breath as he does.

Water Nymph – A female nature goddess or spirit living in or near water. (Greek)

Spirit – Aether (or Spirit) was one of the five Greek elements – Aristotle talked about it as the immutable stuff in which the heavens exist.

Amatsu-Otome – Japanese angel-like female spirits.

Deva – (Persian) Appear as small spheres of light. Nature spirits.

Filendieres & Spinners of the Night – They are average human size. They are known to punish the lazy. They will encourage people that work hard and give them strength. They appear as ghosts. They are seen as ladies of long white dresses, extremely beautiful, pale with blonde hair.

Fylgiar – (Iceland) Attached to one person, they appear to them at the time of their death, letting them know if it will be peaceful, painful, or calm. If they appear mangled, the person will die a horrible and painful death.

Ikiryo – Japanese spirit dog.

Leanan Sidhe – bad spirit fairies, vampiric. Appear to only one person and to them they are beautiful. To everyone else they are invisible. They inspire poets and minstrels but as they do they draw on their life force until they die.

Palos – elemental sprits of the North linked to creativity

Tien – actually means heaven or sky. So the sky fairies are also called Heavenly fairies.

Willies – from Giselle, which was a favorite when I was a kid…they are wispy things who came from the spirits of women who died due to love.

TAKEN

Akua – (fire) shapeshifting fae from Hawaii.

Aguane – (water) female spirits that love to wear red. They have a red cap that imparts invisibility.

Angiri – (fire) Hindu, divine messengers that give fire.

Apsuras – (air) Hindu cloud spirits.

Banshee – (spirit) When someone close in the family is dying, a Banshee, (female spirit) will make a wailing sound. This wailing sound is the signal that death is approaching

Basadone – (air) (Italy) Known as the woman-kisser. He rides the noonday breeze and steals kisses from women.

Boggarts – (earth) A breed of half elf and half fairy. a type of gnome only dirty and unkempt. Malicious and bad-tempered.

Bogles – (earth) Villainous goblins that will do harm to liars and murderers.

Bakeneko – (fire or spirit) Japanese ghost cat that can create ghostly fires.)

Daemon – (spirit) Greek spirits of wisdom or the intellect

Disir – (spirit) Norse, spirit women associated with fate.

Disir – (earth) landspirit

Dryad – (earth) A forest nymph, each one born to live with and protect a certain tree.

Efreeti – (fire) demon/djinn like creatures with a code of honor, associated with volcano. They enjoy evenly matched fights.

Fates – (spirit) they control the destiny of men

Folletti(o)- (Italy) (air) faeries that ride storms and cause dust devils. They are male. Mischievous and annoying, their feet point backwards.

Gargoyle – (earth) A grotesque creature with the ability to appear as a stone statue.

Gianes – (earth) Wood elves known for their master weaving and divination, scrying by means of their spinning wheels.

Green Man – (earth) a spirit of the forest

Hu fa – (spirit) Buddhist guardian spirits that protect the faithful from evil.

Huldra – (earth) a beautiful faerie with either a hollow or bark-covered back, or animal tail. Good to those who are polite, but they turn on who are not nice.

Huupírit (rakiciirikiisu) – (Pawnee) warrior spirit

Kobold – (German) (earth) faeries that dwell in mines and torment humans.

Liosalfar – (air) (Norse) light elves that live in the air, Alfheim [or Gimle] situated in the third heaven. Pretty and benign.

Lorelei – (German) (water) similar to the Greek sirens, she sings from the rocks and lures sailors to their deaths.

Lung – (water) Chinese river-spirit dragons.

Menehunes – (fire) the faerie folk of Hawaii, the children of Pele.

Mermaid – (water) A being with an upper body that resembles a human and a fish-like lower body.

Nereid – (water) A nymph associated with the Mediterranean Sea.

Nickar – (water) A sea demon.

Oceanid – (water) A nymph associated with the oceans and other bodies of saltwater. (Greek)

Oreads – (earth) mountain nymphs

Pari – (Persian) (fire) A beautiful fairy born of fire.

Phooka – (Irish) (air) a mischievous shapeshifting kobold that entices people to mount, leads them a wild ride and then dumps them in the water.

Redcap – (fire) murderous, solitary fae whose red cap is dyed by the blood of his victims.

Qarin – (fire) subspecies of Djinn.

Siren – (water) A sea nymph with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a bird.

Spriggans – (earth) faerie bodyguards and thieves.

Sylph – An elemental being that governs and exists within the element air. A solitary faerie that often guards mountain wildernesses and high peaks.

Tengu – (Japan) (air or spirit) celestial dog

Trolls – (earth) Rich hill spirits that dislike noise.

Undine – (water) An elemental being that governs and exists within the element water.

Xiuhcoatl – (fire) The fire serpent of Aztec mythology. (Aztec)

Will-o-the-wisp – (fire) (also called ellylldan, ingnis fatuus, or hinkypunk) a family of fairy-beings characterized by their fiery appearance and their tendency to lead nighttime wayfarers astray.

Windhorse – (Mongolian) (air or spirit) soul, spirit beings at the center of the cardinal points that allowed shaman to communicate with the other elemental spirits.

General Submission Guidelines

All submissions must observe industry formatting standards.
Any story not observing the below will be kicked back to the author.

Author’s full contact information in the upper lefthand corner of the page, including legal name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. (This information is for contact purposes only and is not shared out in any way.) The approximate word count of the story should follow the contact information.

Halfway down the page should appear the title and by line as it should appear in the finished collection, should the story be accepted. The text portion of the manuscript should be in 12 pt Courier or Times Roman, double spaced. Italics should be indicated by italics formatting, ellipsis should not have a space before or after, and em dashes should be represented by double hyphens with no spaces before or after. Paragraph indents should be denoted by a tab, and NOT auto formatted. Please check your document before submitting it.

Included with your story should be a brief author bio and a list of any prior publishing credits. If your story has been previously printed elsewhere, you must provide the full details of the original publication for acknowledgement purposes. As a note, if two stories of are equal quality, we will always chose an original story over a reprint.

Thank you,
The Editors

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