Writers Guidelines
The Mutant Epoch™

Outland Arts is made up of a core team of creative freelancers who work on a project by project basis. At this time we are fully staffed in-house, and not looking for paid art or writing, although eager for fan art and fan fiction.

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So, you like writing and you like role-playing games. You’ve looked over our products and read the downloadable preview and believe you can come up with an awesome article, adventure, new creature or relic, possibly a whole supplement which perfectly suits The Mutant Epoch™ post apocalyptic setting. If so, then we want to hear from you!

            Maybe you’ve never published before, and then again, maybe you have, but not in the RPG market. To Outland Arts™, creators of The Mutant Epoch™ setting, we judge writing on the same criteria we review art, on a case by case basis, relying on what we see in front of us, as opposed to what school you went to, or what you’ve previously published.

            What are we looking for? first of all, new writers should be familiar with at least the Hub Rules book for The Mutant Epoch™, however, if you are an SOE member, learning about the regional settings through the Pitford Lite free download book and other free supplements in the member's section would also be helpful. At this time we are interested in short fiction, descriptions of new relics and robots, creatures and low rank adventures as well as miscellaneous articles for the monthly e-Zine, Excavator Monthly™. Outland arts™ has no plans at this time to license the use of the Outland System™ gaming mechanic to other publishers, and all works purchased by Outland Arts become the property of Outland Arts™

            Please send us samples of your work via email pasted into an email or as an MS word attachment, or, alternatively, direct us to a web site where your writing is on display. Contact our editorial team at info@outlandarts.com .

Also see our Artist Guidelines here

NOTE TO ARTISTS: At this time we are not seeking artists for anything but post apocalyptic, dark future assignments, but if this is the sort of thing you are interested in doing, then the following has been taken from The Mutant Epoch™ (TME) web site,....

Artist Guidelines
The Mutant Epoch™

            While The Mutant Epoch™ is a futuristic, dark, post apocalyptic setting, art samples need not be of that genre. Secondly, the styles and mediums employed by our artist and currant freelancers are not indicative of the art we demand, in fact, we welcome all styles from both established illustrators as well as accomplished beginners.

            What do we need? Well, being a gritty milieu , illustrations for The Mutant Epoch™ should be textured, somewhat loose, scratchy and possibly mature in their subject matter. The games, comics and fiction are geared toward a mainly male, adult audience, so showing violence, blood, gore, the horrific, as well as the sensual are okay by us as long as the images relate to the text for product being produced. So yes, you can show people with hot bodies, somewhat suggestive scenes and some nudity; bums and breasts, but no clearly visible genitals unless they are part of some non-human being.

            The Mutant Epoch™ as well as many other Outland Press™ products are often sold as downloadable adobe acrobat™ pdf books, and it is our policy to make these products as printer friendly as possible, therefore, we don’t want to see large blocks of color or black ink anywhere, except possibly on the cover or for screen-only editions. To better facilitate printer friendly products, we require finished pencil drawings, or digital art which uses grayscale and avoids large patches of solid color, all of which must have light backgrounds and depth; see the examples found here.  For a portfolio, show us what you’ve got, but do try to include some finished pencil or grayscale renderings along with color and black and white ink work.

            Please email us at info@outlandarts.com with a link to your online portfolio. Please don’t attach samples in an email. If you don’t have a web site yet, consider setting up a gallery at either www.elfwood.com , www.deviantart.com or www.epilogue.com  or better yet, all three.  We look forward to seeing your work.

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