Submission Guidelines and Legal Information

What follows is the legal jargon which protects both the contributors and the magazine.  It is our responsibility to make you aware of the situation when publishing your material.  If you have any questions or queries about them please E-mail us at demonground@demonground.org.

Submission Guidelines

1. All submissions must be related to the genre of Modern Conspiracy/Horror. At present, we have secured the blessings of the publishers for the following game systems:
   • Atlas Games - UNKNOWN ARMIES
   • Chaosium, Inc. - CALL OF CTHULHU
   • Dynasty Presentations, Inc. - DARK CONSPIRACY
   • Eden Studios - CONSPIRACY X, ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN, WITCHCRAFT
   • Key 20 - LITTLE FEARS
   • Pagan Publishing - DELTA GREEN
   • TriTac Games - BUREAU 13
   • White Wolf - HUNTER: THE RECKONING
   • Wizards of the Coast - DARK MATTER
2. The person submitting the work must be its legal owner and remains responsible for their material.
3. The person submitting the work retains all copyrights to their material.
4. By submitting an article, the person submitting the work grants DEMONGROUND permission to distribute their work in a free electronic format only.
5. Any article submitted must state clearly the game system and department the author wishes it to be placed in.  Note, that we will also accept generic horror/conspiracy material.  GENERIC is defined as pertaining to the selected subject matter, but not tied to any specific gaming system.
6. All articles must include, the real name of the author as well as his or her E-mail address.
7. All articles must include the disclaimer that is appropriate for the specified game system (we will add this ourselves if necessary):
   • Atlas Games - UNKNOWN ARMIES: "Unknown Armies, published by Atlas Games, is Copyright © 1998 Greg Stolze and John Tynes. DEMONGROUND is not affiliated with Atlas Games, Greg Stolze, or John Tynes."
   • Chaosium, Inc. - CALL OF CTHULHU: "Chaosium Inc. - Publishing games for 25 years.  Call of Cthulhu is the Registered Trademark of Chaosium Inc., and is used with their permission. Nephilim is the registered trademark of Chaosium and is used with their permission. Chaosium Inc. is the Registered Trademark of Chaosium Inc."
   • Dark Conspiracy Enterprises - DARK CONSPIRACY: "The Dark Conspiracy game in all forms is owned by Dark Conspiracy Enterprises Copyright 1991 - 2000 Dark Conspiracy Enterprises.  Dark Conspiracy is a trademark of Dark Conspiracy Enterprises.  Dark Conspiracy Enterprises permits web sites and fanzines for this game, provided it contains this notice, that Dark Conspiracy Enterprises is notified, and subject to a withdrawal of permission on 90 days notice.  The contents of this site are for personal, non-commercial use, only.  Any use of Dark Conspiracy Enterprise's copyrighted material or trademarks anywhere on this web site and its files should not be viewed as a challenge to those copyrights or trademarks.  In addition, any programs/articles/artwork/files on this site cannot be republished or distributed without the consent of the author who contributed it.  Contact Dark Conspiracy Enterprises through Tantalus, Inc.  PO Box 2310 Key West FL 33045."
   • Eden Studios - CONSPIRACY X, ALL FLESH MUST BE EATEN, and WITCHCRAFT: "All Eden Studios, Inc., CJ Carella and George Vasilakos copyrights, tradedress and trademarks are used with express permission of their owners. Applications for permission may be addressed to website@edenstudios.net."
   • Key 20 - LITTLE FEARS: "Key 20 Publishing is the public persona of Key 20 Limited, an Ohio limited liability company. Little Fears, 'You're Not Scared, Are You?', and 'The Role-Playing Game of Childhood Terror' are trademarks of Jason L. Blair, under exclusive license to Key 20 Limited.“
   • Pagan Publishing - DELTA GREEN: "Delta Green is an award-winning setting of modern conspiracy and Lovecraftian horror from Pagan Publishing.  Delta Green ©1999-2000 The Delta Green Partnership."
   • TriTac Games - BUREAU 13: ""Bureau 13" is copyright 1988, 1995, 2000 by Nick Pollotta. "Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic " is copyright 1982 by TriTac Games and Richard Tucholka."
   • White Wolf Publishing, Inc. - HUNTER: THE RECKONING: "Hunter the Reckoning is a registered trademark of White Wolf Publishing, Inc."
   • Wizards of the Coast - DARK MATTER: "The TSR logo, Alternity, Dark*Matter, Gen Con, and RPGA are trademarks of TSR, Inc. TSR, Inc. is a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, Inc."
8. No illegal or plagiarized material will be published.
9. No payments or other compensation are forwarded for any submissions.
10. The author will be notified if this magazine wishes to republish any of their contributed articles in another format, and will require the permission of the author to do so.

1. All submissions must be related to Modern Conspiracy/Horror. Although other graphics may be accepted if deemed appropriate.
2. The person submitting the work must be it's legal owner and remains responsible for their material.
3. The person submitting the work retains all copyrights to their material.
4. By submitting an article, the person submitting the work grants DEMONGROUND permission to distribute their work in a free electronic format only.
5. The graphic/graphics will be placed in the section of the fanzine deemed most appropriate by the editor.
6. All artworks must include, if not on the graphic, then in the accompanying E-mail, the real name of the author as well as his or her E-mail address.
7. No illegal or plagiarized material will be published.
8. No payments or other compensation are forwarded for any submissions.
9. The author will be notified if this magazine wishes to republish any of their contributed graphics in another format.

Submission Formats

Should...

1. All submissions should be sent as attached files to covering E-mail.
2. All files should be, where possible, zipped using PKZIP or WINZIP.
3. All covering E-mail should include the words "DEMONGROUND SUBMISSION" in the subject line.
4. Submissions will be accepted via E-mail only - at the following address demonground@demonground.org
5. All submissions will receive an E-mail telling the author the status of their article and it's likely publishing date.
6. All articles should be in .DOC, .RTF or .TXT format, which are usable with Microsoft Office.
7. All graphics which are to be part of the submitted article, e.g. maps etc. should be sent as attached files with cover notes as to their location in the article.
8. All articles should use only the following fonts, if possible - Times New Roman, Courier New or Arial.
9. All articles MUST include the authors real name and E-mail address.
10. All articles should be Spell-Checked prior to submission (and a grammar-check wouldn't hurt). We'll probably do it again anyway, but it's so much nicer to have the first pass on an article come up clean.
11. Indicating sections of text as 'heading' 'italic', 'bold', or 'underline' is encouraged.
12. Areas intended as sidebars should be marked as such within the article. Sidebars will be placed in the final layout as close to the relevant section as possible.
13. Feel free to suggest ideas for art to accompany your article. We have a few artists available who do requests if given sufficient time. Also, feel free to send art along with your article (see graphics guidelines below).

Should NOT...

1. Articles should not arrive pre-formatted. Don't expend a lot of effort creating something you feel is camera-ready. We cannot use it in that format, and it takes a great deal of effort to undo that kind of formatting before we can use it. Multiple columns, headers, footers, tables, color text, extraordinarily creative fonts are all examples of things that will cause us to speak ill of you while stripping it out of your submission. If you would like us to consider a specific layout for your aticle, we suggest you submit two files -- one that looks the way you want it to (we don't mind such suggestions), but you should also send one that just contains the raw text.
2. Articles should not contain Microsoft Word TABLES. If you need to provide tabular information for your article, simply provide each 'row' of the table as tab-separated values. This is what we would have to convert it into before we can import it into the desktop-publishing software.
3. Articles should not be submitted in HTML format. HTML may look nice on the screen, but it contains a lot of extra tag information that gets in the way of the raw text of the article.

1. All submissions should be sent as attached files to covering E-mail.
2. All files should be, where possible, zipped using PKZIP or WINZIP.
3. All covering E-mail should include the words "DEMONGROUND SUBMISSION" in the subject line.
4. Submissions will be accepted via E-mail only - at the following address demonground@demonground.org
5. All submissions will receive an E-mail telling the author the status of their article and it's likely publishing date.
6. We can accept the following formats - .GIF, .BMP, .JPG, and TIF
7. If possible, artwork should be set to a minimum resolution of 144 dots per inch.
8. Our older-format Cover Art submissions were 19 centimeters wide by 25 centimeters tall. The newer format (established with Issue 12) images must be 14.5 centimeters wide by 22 centimeters tall.
9. Both color and black and white artworks will be accepted.
10. Any graphics must include the artists signature or other defining mark.