“Afghanistan: A Soldier’s Story” depends on the submissions of those who served. Whether you are among the CF members, families of the Fallen, or DND employees and civilians in support roles who have deployed with the Combat Mission, this is your opportunity to tell YOUR story. Help us to tell it.
Details on Submissions:
At this time the site is restricted to 2MB uploads. Submissions can also be emailed to consult@mywrdwrx.com until we have the bugs worked out of the upload process.
Submission Disclaimer.pdf
(Please take time to read the disclaimer prior to submitting)
In order to submit articles, graphics, photographs or video clips, to this site or to our You Tube Channel, http://www.youtube.com/user/ASoldiersStory we ask that you register at this site. Once your registration is validated we can then also validate your submission for inclusion in the final publication. Validation is essential to ensure content integrity of the final publication. If a submission cannot be validated, (and we will work with folks who encounter difficulty having legitimate submissions validated) then it cannot be included.
In order for us to validate submissions for publication please ensure that you include the following information:
First and last name, service number if you were/are with the CF, media outlet if you embedded on a mission or operation, dates deployed, and your mission or operation. Identification of someone with whom you deployed for confirmation and validation of your submission, on an as required basis. Confidentiality will be respected when and as requested. We will also need your email address.
This information is required to ensure the integrity of the final publication and YOUR stories. Submissions, as mentioned, will be validated as required. We also recognize that some may wish to submit under a pen name. Make sure this is clear in the submission, but the editors and validators still need to know who you are. We can keep identities confidential, when necessary, but recommend openness in submissions. This book is not meant to be a platform for ranting and complaining. It is an opportunity to share the human stories, the Afghan Mission experience from the perspective of the boots on the ground.
Writing assistance is also available on request. Writing does not come easy to some, but I’ve heard enough stories from the troops to know most of you are excellent story tellers!
Submissions are welcome in a variety of formats. We welcome articles, photographs, art work, (and short video clips through You Tube http://www.youtube.com/user/ASoldiersStory).
Ideally written submissions should run between 300 and 600 words, but a really good story that takes a little more space is certainly welcome.
Images should be at least 1 MB in size but no bigger than 2 MB. If the publisher or editor needs a larger format they will contact you. It’s also very important to caption your image submissions. This means we need to know who took the picture, where they took it, when they took it, who’s in it (first and last name, rank -where applicable) and a little bit about what is going on in the photo. Pictures of underage Canadian children require parental permission.
Video submissions, if there are sufficient, may be used by a documentary film producer as the basis for a documentary related to the book “Afghanistan: A Soldier’s Story”.
What cannot be included in the book will be incorporated in a DVD at the end of the book. The book will not be translated, but submissions will be published in the language in which they were received. Editing, if not specifically requested, will be minimal to retain the character and tone of the author.