Just to be clear--You own your story.  We don't ask for any right other than the right to display the story on our web site.  Your name will appear on the story as copyright holder.

  Important: We do not copy edit for you.  We don't have time.  Unless there is an error in the story that we put there, we don't like to make corrections to the story once it is posted.  It doubles the work involved.  If you aren't finished with your story then wait until you are before you send it.

    Send your story file as an E-mail attachment.  We will see if it can be used that way.  If it can, it will appear on
our site pretty much the way it did on your computer, so be sure you've copy edited it and checked the spelling.
    Be sure you've titled the story.  It's surprising how many come in with no title.
    If you think you might want a pen name, think hard.  They are a pain in the sit-down place for us to remember
who you really are.  Besides, most are no better than the name you got when you were born.  However, if you
must, you must.
    We like to use a short author's introduction to the beginning of each story and a brief biography of the author
at the end. Send these along in the body of your E-mail or as additional attachments.
    Include your regular mailing address and telephone number for our records. All your personal information is
kept strictly confidential. Note that we invite readers to contact you, but their messages are sent to us. We then
redirect them to you. This assures your privacy.
    To contact us with questions or to send a story by E-mail Click Here!

    If you can't figure out how to send your story files by e-mail, just send your story on a floppy disk or CD.
Please send in a standard PC format  (Word is best for us).  You can send the introduction, biographical sketch,
photos, and personal information on the same disc or CD.  Our mailing address is:

The Preservation Foundation, Inc.
Attn: Richard Loller
2213 Pennington Bend Road
Nashville, Tennessee 37214

    You can send photographs or other images as E-mail attachments.  If you've seen our pages you'll be aware
of how much illustrations add to the stories.
    Send your photo as a JPEG or GIF image. You can send it along with your story or in a seperate E-mail. Try
to keep photo files under 300kb in size.  If you don't know how to crop your photos and compress them we will
do it here.  The web can utilize a moderate amount of detail, the rest is wasted.  Also, our web space costs money,
so we utilize small files for illustrations.
    If you have non-digital photos, but have no way to scan  them, we can do it here. Just send us the photo with a
suitably stamped and addressed return envelope.   Send them to the address above.

    If for some reason, your story doesn't work when sent as an attachment, then I'll ask you to send it as plain
text.  This removes all formatting and allows fairly easy reformatting in HTML by us.    To do this, open your
story and highlight the text by clicking on "Edit" and then on "Select All." Then right click your mouse or click
"Edit." Choose "Copy" from the menu that results. Now open up an e-mail message to us. Tab down until the
cursor is blinking in the text box. Right click your mouse or click the "Edit" menu. Choose "Paste" and click
on it. Your story will appear in the text box in "plain text," which is what is required for HTML programming.
    If you can't figure our how to do this just e-mail or call me and I'll walk you through it or suggest another
way.
        Be sure that you have clear divisions between paragraphs--two lines of space is best. We sometimes lose
paragraph divisions otherwise.  If you really want to help, you can put the HTML symbol that creates paragraph
breaks between paragraphs.  Just copy and paste it.  Here it is: <p>
 

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