Mardi Gras Festival

Hi Everyone!

The following is the Mardi Gras Festival Newsletter for authors.
It contains information as of now which could change. If it
does, I'll Send out another bulletin. If you have any questions
let me know and I'll try to answer them.

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Newsletter

Contents

Overview
Participation
Story Guidelines
Submitting Stories to ASSM
ASSTR Website
Other Questions

Overview

The Mardi Gras Festival!

Mardi Gras, Carnivale, Fat Tuesday, however you say it will be on February 24th this year. To celebrate this time of Debauchery and (at least up north) nothing better to do, I offer this festival!

Festival guidelines are contained in a following section. Stories are not required to be any genre but need to in some way be connected with Mardi Gras. There is no 'evaluation' of the stories except for the minimal moderation used on ass.m so it is up to each author to ensure that his or her story fits the spirit of the Festival. Knowing who is going to participate, I doubt if this will be a problem.

We hope to show off our abilities with wonderful new and varied stories. We will however, allow authors to repost previous work if it fits within one of the categories. NOTE: Please put RP in your subject line, so everyone will know.

I could use some help. If you know of an author who writes romance, could you ask the person to join in? Feel free to send this newsletter to anyone who wants to read it, or refer the person to me and I'll take care of the details. The author does not have to be a person who normally posts to ass.m.

I'm excited about this event and hope we have the best festival ever!

Participation

An author can write as many stories as they would like. The more the merrier I say!

Stories can be submitted now or anytime up until February 23rd at midnight, EDT.

The festival stories will be released ahead of anything else that is supposed to show up on ass.m that day. Stories will be released all at once, and then they go out at the usual rate, which is 4 per hour, at 10 past the hour.

Story Guidelines

Stories will be split into 3 categories, by geography. The biggest Mardi Gras Shindigs; "New Orleans", "Rio de Janeiro" and "All Others" (thought about doing Trinidad separately, but *shrug* not necessary.)

I hope we see multiple participation from everyone who has the time. There is plenty of scope with this theme. Debauchery, history, intrigue, voyeurism and exhibitionism-- even romance. There is something for everyone!

I would explain the categories, but I think they are pretty self explanatory. Feel free to email me if you are unsure, or have a question.

Stories can be submitted to ass.m as of now. There are a few things to take into consideration before doing this.

Stories should follow the posting rules for ass.m I will not go into this since most already know how to do it. If there are any questions contact me at

[email protected] and I'll try to help out.

Story codes should be completed in the usual way.

The subject line of the post requires (Mardi Gras) at the start of the line so the moderators at ass.m can identify the story as being part of the festival. Make sure to include the opening and closing brackets. The moderators will then hold the stories until the festival date. Rey del Sexo sent a memo to the moderators letting them know about this.

The Subject line of your post should look like this:

{ASSM} {Mardi Gras} Title, Author, Codes

(if you forget the ASSM part, the moderators will add it.)

ASSTR Website

There will be a website for stories submitted to the Festival. If you Do not want your story to be part of the Festival Website, just mention in the story post prior to the start of the story. Otherwise the story will be included in the permanent record for this event.