Contact the editor with your proposed title and a short description:
. Article length preferred: 400 to 500 words with digital photos. Photos need to be digital and at least 2 megapixels original TIF or high-resolution JPEG. Please do not alter / Photoshop the photos without discussing it with the editor first. All photos must have photo captions submitted with the text. Do not place photos in the text; send photos and text in separate files.
All submitted articles and photos are considered to have been submitted exclusively to Action Pursuit Games unless clearly marked otherwise. Editors may be contacted at:
Liisa Sullivan:
Bryan Sullivan:
STORY RIGHTS, PHOTOGRAPHER, MODEL RELEASES: You must send releases with the article and photos. Send releases electronically or by fax to 573.674.4031; then download and print out the releases, fill out/sign, and snail mail to the editor. Be sure to use the same "working title" on the hard copy releases that you put on the electronic release. Articles without releases will not be considered for publication. We must receive the hard copy releases before the article can run. Checks will not issue until the releases have been received.
Press releases, news items, new product and promotional type releases must be marked as such. Include contact information. These types of items are not paid items.
Exclusives: Mark them "exclusive". DO NOT submit to APG any feature or photos (same or substantially the same) that you have submitted to any other magazine. Questions: email the editor.
Payment: Payment is made in the month on the cover of the issue in which the item appears.
Assignments: Request specific assignments ahead of time by email to
Style: Send without formatting (no underlines, fonts, italics, etc.). Use plain text. Word Perfect or MSWord preferred. Use News Pro style: put only one space after end punctuation. Start each paragraph flush left. Double space down between paragraphs.
Editing: "During his stint as a reporter, he volunteered for what was considered the magazine's dullest beat, profiling mutual-fund managers, and didn't grouse when tough-minded editors chewed up his copy. By his mid-20s though, it had become clear to all that his father had anointed him as his successor." (from an article about Steve Forbes appearing in the Wall Street Journal)
PHOTOS: All photos must have a photographer credit and a caption. A photographer's release must be recieved before photos can be considered for publication. Send captions with the text. Print photos are only accepted if they are printed from 35mm film. Never write on the back of print photos except with a thin point Sharpie and even then, write small and along the sides of the photos, not in the middle.
DIGITAL IMAGES: High Resolution TIF, and use a photo i.d. that’s easy to understand.
The photo releases must be matched to the photos submitted.
DO NOT write on the photos with black or dark markers, or with ink. Use a thin tip felt marker only. Take care the marker has dried before stacking photos to send.
Captions: write the caption, and include the location where photo was taken, date photo was taken, and the name of the photographer. (Flag pull! SC Village, Corona, California, May 19, 2006. Photo by John Doe). When identifying people in the photo: identify by row (front/back), kneeling, standing, holding blue marker, etc. A group photo may be identified by group name plus the location, date, and photographer.
Photos are not returned without prior arrangement.
Persons in shooting areas must be following all current industry safety rules. They must wear full unmodified factory head protection systems (no cut down masks, ears must be covered by the headgear, must have full factory facemask; bottom of facemask is not allowed to be rolled up, etc.).
Persons in non-shooting areas must be following all current industry safety rules. They must have a barrel plug in the paintball marker, must not have a finger on the trigger, muzzle must be pointed in a safe direction and not pointing at a person or animal.
The paintball marker must NEVER be pointed at the reader.
TO GET PAID YOU MUST DO THESE THINGS
1) Have a current W-9 form on file. These are IRS forms readily available. A W-9 can be downloaded from the Internal Revenue web site or from other web sources.
Fill out/sign the W-9, attach a note saying "APG/Paintball Writer" and mail it directly to:
Accounting Beckett Media 2400 East Katella, Suite 300 Anaheim, CA 92806
2) Provide Original Signed Annual Releases (writer, photographer, model as appropriate) for all your articles/photographs.
The forms are available below.
Kristina Stammen
Managing Editor Beckett Media 2400 East Katella, Suite 300
Anaheim, CA 92806
3) Action Pursuit Media will not issue checks until all releases, W-9, and paperwork are on file.
Questions:
Releases
Releases and all other editorial submissions by snail mail go directly to:
Kristina Stammen Managing Editor Beckett Media 2400 East Katella, Suite 300 Anaheim, CA 92806
Annual Releases cover all articles or photographs submitted or modeling done during the calendar year you indicate on the Release.
SIGN the Release(s) (and have your parent/guardian complete and sign it if you are under 18) and send it to the Editor listed above.
Receipt of the Release(s) is mandatory before an article can be published.
All submitted articles and photos are considered to have been submitted exclusively to Action Pursuit Games unless clearly marked otherwise. Editors may be contacted at: 
