All props should be sent to Tony Thornley, MRev EiC. Please use the following guidelines for your proposal.
1) Introduce yourself. Tell me who you are, what your email is, what project you're interested in, and what type of project it is (ongoing, mini-series, one-shot).
2) Pitch your series. Give me the whos, whats, and major details in one paragraph. In other words, tell me the basic concept of the series.
3) Plot breakdown. For ongoing series, I ask for at least full plots for the first six issues. That's one breakdown per issue. I don't want to see "Spectacular Spider-Man #1-3- Peter Parker, Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, and Harry Osborn all die." I want to hear about the little details. For mini series and one-shots, I ask for issue-by-issue breakdowns for the entire mini/one-shot.
4) Your dibs. What characters, locales, concepts will you be using in the series? Also, if you're having guest stars, let me know that the character will only be a guest star. That way the character could be freed up for someone else.
5) A writing sample. I'd prefer to see how you write. If you have a link for a site you write on, great, give me that link, and tell me where to look. If not, attatch a short (no more than 10K) sample of your work to your proposal.
Other things-
If you're pitching a solo book for a character already on a team (for example, Goliath), talk to the writer who has the character dibbed (using the previous example, Avengers). A dibs list will be up shortly.
We ask that all writers subscribe to and are somewhat active in the Mrevstaff list at Yahoo! Groups.
If you wish to propose a story for one of our two Anthologies- MRev Presents or What If...?- follow the same guidelines as above, only detailing your story for the single arc/issue. Unless there is no writer in line to do the follow arc/story, writers can have only one consecutive arc. The same writer can write two arcs, as long as they're not back to back, or another writer wanted to do a story before the completion of the writer's first arc.
Unless you say otherwise, we will assume that you want a twelve issue-run on an ongoing. Warn us if you want less. We will not let you sign up for more than twelve issues initially. (This is explained later.)
All series are monthly, unless prior arrangements are made. If you don't want to write monthly issues, tell us.
No one gets a "writer for life" deal unless it's a creator-owned book (meaning you created all/most of the main characters). Contracts for ongoing series are twelve issue (unless otherwise noted), and are renewable for up to twelve more issues. After that, you can put your prop up against anyone else interested in the series, and the editors will decide between them.
After you propose your series, and it is accepted, you will be assigned an editor. You will need to send your issues to both your editor and the EiC.
Good luck, and we hope to see you in MRev!