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Teaser Tales — Submission Guidelines

Updated 15/11/2023: A publication hosting flash fiction or nonfiction shorts which are promoting a longer story, book or series…

Please read the guidelines before asking to be a writer in the comments section.

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Purpose of Teaser Tales

The magazine has a purpose: To publish original short, inviting, non-erotic tales which promote longer fiction or non-fiction of any kind.

• A story already published on Medium.
• A story or book published on another platform or publisher.

You are welcome to promote your own or another writer’s work that you like.

Rules

• The story you are promoting must be less than five years old when published.
• As mentioned, your promotional tale must not be erotic in content. This way there is a better chance this platform will recommend it and then hopefully the promoted story will receive more views.
• Send us an original (not used else where) flash fiction or nonfiction teaser — tagging the story with either of these topics — between 200 and 700 words. Your teaser can be suggestive, but not erotic. Use your imagination — your goal is to encourage the reader to click on the story link/embed that you provide at the bottom of the teaser tale.
• No other embeds allowed. Also, limit your in-text links within the story and CTAs at the bottom. Keep your post simple.
• Make sure the title is intriguing.
• Use a high-quality image that is eye-catching, but NOT the same image as the one heading the story you are linking to, although is can be the same model in a different pose.
• The photo must have a copyright caption. Position the image at the top of the page, followed by the title. If you are unsure how to achieve this, check out this article.

• Only one image per story. We want the main focus to be towards the embed.

Topics to use

Suggested tags for your teaser tale:

Always tag with Flash fiction or nonfiction to describe the type of teaser you have written, so it will appear on the appropriate publication feature page.

Then, add your choice of non-erotic topics to describe the short & the story you wish to share; such as — teaser, microfiction, short story, this happened to me, romance, relationships, diversity, LGBTQ, supernatural, horror, short read, fantasy, memoir, sci-fi — you get the idea.

Examples

Here are some examples of what we are looking for:

• A promotional flash fiction story to promote fiction erotica.
• A promotional non-fiction post — this can be used for you to promote stories that are true or fiction.
• An outside Medium story.

You are welcome to promote darker fiction. But please do not link to any stories which include paedophilia or racist content.

• If promoting a serial, the embed should be one episode from the series, rather than the series list. You may also include an in-text link to the serial list.

What the editors at Teaser Tales will do.

• Quickly we will read through, publish and auto tweet your story.
• If your story does not meet the guidelines, needs more work or a better image, we will leave you a note or send it back.
• However, we can not offer any editing service for this publication.

If the publication takes off, we will also email subscribers each week with a list of current teaser tales.

If you want to be included as a writer or contact us in anyway, then just add a comment below. Or find us on Twitter.

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