| Story Call Out For "Chicken Soup For The Soul." |
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Story Call Out
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Getting Into
College
Release Date: October 2008
There are over 3 million graduating high school seniors each
year and more than half of them apply to college. These days, colleges are
deluged with applications and the college application process has become the
most traumatic thing that most of theses students and their parents have ever
experienced. There are many books published on how to get into college. Our
book will be one of the only ones out there that provides emotional, not
tactical, support.
Our market for this book is 10th, 11th, and
12th graders and their parents, meaning a target audience of more than five
million kids and at least that many parents the day we publish.
Chapters will include the following topics:
Do I Want to Go to College?
Parental
Pressure
Self Image
Competing
with Friends
Regrets over Past
Grades/Performance
SATs and ACTs ñ Living through
Them
Sports and Coaches
Great
Essays
Waiting
Waitlisted and
Deferred
Disappointments
Preparing to Leave the Nest
Stories must be true (non-fiction),
written in first person, and 1,000 words or less. Stories should make readers
laugh, cry or sigh, and be positive, universal and non-controversial. Also, the
"point" or "message" should be evident without preaching. No essays,
commentaries, tributes, philosophical or biographical pieces will be accepted.
Please refer to other Chicken Soup books to better understand our story-telling
style.
You may submit more than one story. For each story
selected, a 50-word biography will be included about the contributor and a
permission fee of $200 per story will be paid within 30 days upon
publication
Please submit stories through our website at
Chicken Soup. The tentative submission deadline is June 15th, 2008, but
please note that this deadline may adjust, so the sooner, the better! |
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