Fiction Scribe

I realize I plug a lot of the Chicken Soup call outs for stories, and I would like to take a few lines to let you know why.

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: The Real Deal School was the first time I was published *and* was paid for it. What a wonderful experience but one which makes me partial to posting up call outs for this company.

Also, because I’ve been through the process of getting published with Chicken Soup, I can honestly tell you it’s in no way a scam. I hesitate posting a lot of thing I come across because I don’t know if they are scams or not.

All that being said, here’s the call out for Chicken Soup for the Twenty-Something Soul:

“The Chicken Soup Family is preparing a serving especially for the Twenty-Something Soul and we are looking for stories. The twenty-something years are a time when of transition - out from under the security blanket of parents and college to face the “real world.” This decade of life is full of changes and new experiences. The twenty-something years also involve decisions without clear answers, expectations and pressures, and self-doubts that make this rite of passage a bit of a bumpy ride.

Chicken Soup for the Twenty-Something Soul will cater to the soul of a twenty-something and ease readers of Chicken Soup for the College Years into their next phase of life. Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen are teaming up with life coach and author of Twenty Something, Twenty Everything Christine Hassler to serve up stories that resonate with the twenty-something journey.

We’re looking for true stories that will touch the souls of the readers and make them laugh, cry, sigh or just say, “Wow!” Stories may be about any aspect of a twenty-something’s life such as career, relationships, health, finances, family, and self identity. Stories of twenty-something’s who have incredible lessons to share will inspire twenty-something’s to learn how to lay the foundation of their own life with
integrity, faith, and even a sense of humor.

Please share your inspirational, true experiences of 1000 words or less. You may submit as many stories as you would like. For each story selected to be published in the book, a 50-word biography will be included about the author and a permission fee of $200 will be paid. The submission deadline is September 2007.

Email submissions are strongly preferred. Send stories with your name, address, phone and email address on the manuscript through our website at www.chickensoup.com. Please select Twenty Something as the book title.

If unable to email, please send a hard copy (and on disk if possible) c/o Chicken Soup for the Twenty Something Soul to Barbara LoMonaco, 326 Junipero Plaza, Santa Barbara, Ca. 93105. Material will not be returned. Due to the volume of stories we receive, we are unable to respond to each contribution. Finalists, only, will be notified prior to publication and permission to print will be requested.�