16th SPOTLIGHT Pitch Your Dreams To - JMS BOOKS LLC

Marketing for Romance Writers.Org is excited to announce our annual “Write-place, Write-time” Submissions event scheduled for September 8^th and 9^th, 2012.

We have an amazing panel of Publishers and Editors ready to give YOU, aspiring authors or seasoned authors, an opportunity to “pitch your dreams” to a listening audience.

BUT…that ever tricky timing can be a slippery little rascal. So, for you - MFRW is providing a platform of:

“Write-place, Write-time”

Let's say you are on an elevator when...

...the publisher/editor of your dreams steps through the door. Your heart is pumping, your hands are clammy and you know you have a limited amount of time to tell this person about the next New York Times Best Seller for which you have just assigned those coveted words "the end".

MFRW brings you that elevator moment.

OUR SIXTEENTH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: JMS BOOKS LLC

What We Accept:

JMS Books LLC accepts queer, literary, and popular fiction, including erotica, romance, young adult, and stories without erotic, romantic, or queer content. Stories must be between 5,000 and 100,000 words in length. We do not accept stories outside of this range.

Non-fiction submissions must be over 30,000 words in length. For non-fiction submissions, query first.

Stories don't need to contain graphic sex scenes or a romantic/sexual relationship between characters. If your story is erotic, there is no minimum sexual content requirement. Romance stories where sex is alluded to or described in literary terms are welcome. Stories without romantic or erotic content are also welcome.

We are looking for fresh, new voices in the following fiction genres:

ACTION/ADVENTURE
BDSM
CONTEMPORARY
FANTASY
GAY
HETEROSEXUAL
HISTORICAL
HORROR
HUMOR
INTERRACIAL
LESBIAN
MILITARY/WAR
MYSTERY/THRILLER
NON-FICTION
PARANORMAL
SCIENCE FICTION
TRANSGENDER
WESTERN
YOUNG ADULT

What We Don't Accept:

We publish what we like to read. Our tastes are broad, but we don't accept stories which portray GLBT characters or non-traditional sexualities negatively. We don't publish stories containing pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, rape or nonconsensual sex, extreme fetishes, degradation, snuff, watersports, or scat.

We don't publish books with interior graphics, custom fonts, special formatting, or imbedded media. Stories cannot contain quoted song lyrics or quotes from movies or television shows. Any third-party quotes must be approved by JMS Books LLC and may be removed prior to publication if copyright infringement is suspected.

We no longer publish poetry. We don't accept previously published or self-published submissions, unless the story ONLY appeared in an anthology or collection and was not available as a stand-alone e-book. We don't accept novel excerpts or chapters as stand-alone e-book submissions.

SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUNG ADULT

QUEENTEEN PRESS

What We Accept:

Queerteen Press accepts all genres of queer, literary, and genre fiction suitable for a young adult audience. This means books whose main characters are between the ages of 12 and 21. Stories from new authors must be at least 30,000 words and no longer than 100,000 words in length.

Non-fiction submissions must be over 30,000 words in length. For non-fiction submissions, query first.

While we publish YA romance and understand sexual exploration is a part of growing up, we cannot accept any books with explicit sexual content for our Queerteen Press line. If you wish to submit an erotic story containing adult characters (over 18 years of age), please visit our parent site at JMS Books LLC for our submission guidelines.

We are looking for fresh, new voices in the following fiction YA genres:
ACTION/ADVENTURE
COMING OF AGE
CONTEMPORARY
FANTASY
HISTORICAL
HORROR
HUMOR
INTERRACIAL
MILITARY/WAR
MYSTERY/THRILLER
NON-FICTION
PARANORMAL
SCIENCE FICTION
WESTERN

While it isn't imperative that your story contain gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender characters, please realize our target audience is queer teens as well as parents, teachers, and librarians of such. If your YA book doesn't contain queer content, publishing with us may not allow it to reach the widest audience possible.

What We Don't Accept:

We publish what we like to read. We do not accept stories which portray GLBT characters or their sexuality negatively. We also do not publish any stories containing explicit sexual relationships, either between underage characters or between adults and children.


CLICK HERE!! For more information and detail to submit your manuscript to this publisher click here for further instruction on this event.

15th SPOTLIGHT - Pitch Your Dreams To Liquid Silver Books

Marketing for Romance Writers.Org is excited to announce our annual “Write-place, Write-time” Submissions event scheduled for September 8^th and 9^th, 2012.

We have an amazing panel of Publishers and Editors ready to give YOU, aspiring authors or seasoned authors, an opportunity to “pitch your dreams” to a listening audience.

BUT…that ever tricky timing can be a slippery little rascal. So, for you - MFRW is providing a platform of:

“Write-place, Write-time”

Let's say you are on an elevator when...

...the publisher/editor of your dreams steps through the door. Your heart is pumping, your hands are clammy and you know you have a limited amount of time to tell this person about the next New York Times Best Seller for which you have just assigned those coveted words "the end".

MFRW brings you that elevator moment.

OUR FIFTEENTH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: LIQUID SILVER BOOKS

LSB Author Guidelines

General Submissions:

We are currently accepting all erotic romance genres. Romance is the key to our stories. Stories must have well developed characters, with depth and explosive chemistry that entice the reader to like and/or identify with them. Mix in an imaginative and fully realized plot, vivid settings, and clear dialog and you’ve got the ingredients for a story we’d be interested in publishing.

We do not accept literary Erotica submissions. Manuscripts with obvious grammar, formatting and editing issues will not be considered. Make sure your work is critiqued and polished prior to submitting.

Taboo subjects include pedophilia, rape or incest, necrophilia, hate messages to any race, gender, religion, or sexuality, bestiality, main characters under the age of 18, and our definition of pornography. We reserve the right to refuse submissions based on other subjects we deem inappropriate.

Contract/Royalties

Liquid Silver Books is a full service, royalty paying eBook Publisher, which includes editing, proofreading, cover art, ISBN number and either digital or print publishing.

We pay 35% royalties on monies received from sales in all outlets. Royalties are paid on a calendar quarter basis by company check. International authors are paid via Paypal.

Our standard contract is for electronic rights for two years.

Heat Levels

Liquid Silver Books publishes all genres in the following heat levels:

Platinum:
Sweet and/or sensual romance
Longer emotional and sensual tension resulting in committed relationship between H/H.
Monogamous relationships
HEA
GLBT that fits the above requirements

Sterling:
"Sweeter" erotic romance
Allow for emotional buildup leading to culmination of relationship sex
Longer sensual tension/slower developed heat resulting in committed relationship between H/H.
Monogamous relationships
HEA
Descriptive sex
GLBT that fits the above requirements

Liquid:
Increased sensual tension
Frequent sexual encounters
Descriptive/explicit sex
Casual BDSM/Fetish/Kink
Quick heat/interaction between characters.
Monogamous relationships
HEA
Sexual tension/encounters resulting in committed relationship between H/H. (Wedding bells not needed.)
GLBT that fits the above requirements

Molten:
Intense heat/sexual interaction
Descriptive/explicit sex
Lifestyle BDSM/Fetish/Kink
Violence
Multiple partners
HFN or HEA
Heterosexual w/ kink
GLBT that fits the above requirements

CLICK HERE!! For more information and detail to submit your manuscript to this publisher click here for further instruction on this event.

14th SPOTLIGHT - Pitch Your Dreams To LOOSE ID

Marketing for Romance Writers.Org is excited to announce our annual “Write-place, Write-time” Submissions event scheduled for September 8^th and 9^th, 2012.

We have an amazing panel of Publishers and Editors ready to give YOU, aspiring authors or seasoned authors, an opportunity to “pitch your dreams” to a listening audience.

BUT…that ever tricky timing can be a slippery little rascal. So, for you - MFRW is providing a platform of:

“Write-place, Write-time”

Let's say you are on an elevator when...

...the publisher/editor of your dreams steps through the door. Your heart is pumping, your hands are clammy and you know you have a limited amount of time to tell this person about the next New York Times Best Seller for which you have just assigned those coveted words "the end".

MFRW brings you that elevator moment.

OUR FOURTEENTH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: LOOSE ID

Loose Id takes romance to the edge: the edge of the genre, the edge of convention, the edge of the abyss. And then we throw it right on in. A Loose Id romance is deliberately, specifically, and insistently erotic. It ought to make you blush and squirm in your seat, while keeping you turning pages because you have to find out what happens next.

We're looking for stories that unleash the power of fantasy and the id. New twists on old favorites, both erotic and romantic. Whether it's that hotass cop and the speeder he pulled over, a threesome with your two best gay friends, anonymous sex with the guy you saw pumping gas, capture fantasy, sex slavery, cowboy and city slicker, secret babies, secretary and sheikh, we want stories that tap specific reader fantasies and make them as erotic as the plotline will support.

Your story should have a clear romance hook, even though we encourage plots that have a broader external conflict. Readers love sprawling stories, but they want to know from the outset who is going to fall in love, what's going to get in their way, and why it's important that they resolve it. Remember, the idea is to indulge the id by fulfilling familiar reader fantasies in a new and unique way, so those fantasies need to be recognizable and powerful.

Accepted Genres

Contemporary
Historical
Paranormal
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Mystery & Suspense
Gay, Lesbian & Transgendered
Menage & Polyamory
BDSM & Fetish

About the contemporaries and historicals

Because we're sharpening our focus on reader fantasy, we're reopening submissions to contemporaries and historicals that are sufficiently erotic to meet our desire to have readers squirming in their seats. No inspirationals, no sweet romances, no category romance. But, feel free to take those standard romance tropes and plotlines and make them as erotic as the story will support. We'd prefer historicals and contemporaries to include multicultural elements, interracial elements, full-figured heroines, menage, bdsm, alternate lifestyle, lgbt themes or polyamory, but we will happily look at your hot heterosexual Alpha heroes in single-partner relationships, so long as they're hunky and HOT.

About paranormal, sff, mystery & suspense

While we encourage broad, inventive plots, please remember that we publish erotic ROMANCE. No cozy mysteries, no urban fantasy with sex for titillation, no sprawling space epics with the occasional love story. We expect every story to have a fully realized romance with conflict and resolution, even if you're not taking them all the way to happily ever after. Stories with a large external conflict must have a romance hook - one that is specifically erotic. As with contemporaries and historicals, we'd prefer these to include multicultural elements, interracial elements, full-figured heroines, menage, bdsm, alternate lifestyle, lgbt themes or polyamory,but we're perfectly happy to look at your sky pirates and outlaw heroes who find the girl of their dreams, so long as the story makes us squirm.

About LGBT, menage & poly, bdsm & fetish

Everything we've said about romances, hooks, and fantasies still applies when dealing with LGBT, menage & poly, bdsm & fetish themes. While some of our books in these categories cater specifically to the relevant community, we still expect them to be accessible to and enjoyable for the bulk of our female readers. Romance is the key. At Loose Id, we believe love is love is love is love. The heart wants who it wants and the id wants what it wants. Tell us a story about someone or someones getting their heart and id's desire. It's not enough that it's two guys, two girls, a drag queen and a pre-op transexual, three or more lovers, or there are whips, chains, clamps, pony play. Turn it inside out and show us the hearts that make it work. Show us the rainbow and make us believe - and squirm, don't forget the squirming.

Specific Guidelines

Length

20,000-120,000 words. Flings of less than 20,000 words and shorter stories are by invitation only to authors currently publishing with us. Stories of 55,000 - 70,000 words will receive an advance and be automatically considered for print.
Re-releases

In very rare circumstances we will accept previously published manuscripts that meet our guidelines, however they will only be considered in conjunction with a complete, unpublished manuscript meeting our guidelines by the same author.

Series and Serials

We're not generally interested in serials or series beyond three books at this time. While we'll still look at manuscripts intended to be part of a much longer series, each story must stand alone and subsequent books will be judged on their own merit as well as the sales for previous books in the series.

CLICK HERE!! For more information and detail to submit your manuscript to this publisher click here for further instruction on this event.

13th SPOTLIGHT - Pitch Your Dreams To MELANGE BOOKS

Marketing for Romance Writers.Org is excited to announce our annual “Write-place, Write-time” Submissions event scheduled for September 8^th and 9^th, 2012.

We have an amazing panel of Publishers and Editors ready to give YOU, aspiring authors or seasoned authors, an opportunity to “pitch your dreams” to a listening audience.

BUT…that ever tricky timing can be a slippery little rascal. So, for you - MFRW is providing a platform of:

“Write-place, Write-time”

Let's say you are on an elevator when...

...the publisher/editor of your dreams steps through the door. Your heart is pumping, your hands are clammy and you know you have a limited amount of time to tell this person about the next New York Times Best Seller for which you have just assigned those coveted words "the end".

MFRW brings you that elevator moment.

OUR THIRTEENTH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: MELANGE BOOKS

Melange Books is interested in several genres:

Contemporary Mainstream

Action Adventure

Mystery

Contemporary and Historical Romance

Mainstream fiction

Paranormal fiction, Paranormal romance

We are NOT at this time interested in Fantasy and Science Fiction

CLICK HERE!! For more information and detail to submit your manuscript to this publisher click here for further instruction on this event.

12th SPOTLIGHT - Pitch Your Dreams To MLR Press

Marketing for Romance Writers.Org is excited to announce our annual “Write-place, Write-time” Submissions event scheduled for September 8^th and 9^th, 2012.

We have an amazing panel of Publishers and Editors ready to give YOU, aspiring authors or seasoned authors, an opportunity to “pitch your dreams” to a listening audience.

BUT…that ever tricky timing can be a slippery little rascal. So, for you - MFRW is providing a platform of:

“Write-place, Write-time”

Let's say you are on an elevator when...

...the publisher/editor of your dreams steps through the door. Your heart is pumping, your hands are clammy and you know you have a limited amount of time to tell this person about the next New York Times Best Seller for which you have just assigned those coveted words "the end".

MFRW brings you that elevator moment.

OUR TWELFTH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: MLR PRESS

Welcome to ManLoveRomance Press

Owned by best-selling, award-winning author Laura Baumbach, MLR Press offers the highest quality stories to readers of our genre, mainly gay fiction and erotic romance. MLR Press publishes books that span the range from historical settings to futuristic ones, and everything in between. We have new worlds, mysteries, vampires, aliens and ghosts that entertain and delight. We take readers on amazing adventures through the creative minds of a small, select group of bright, uniquely talented authors and artists.

Our titles include multiple award-winning and Lambda nominated books such as the Donald Strachey Mystery Series by Richard Stevenson (also brought to life by HereTv! films), the popular Deadly Mystery series by Victor J. Banis, and the Mahu series by Neil S. Plakcy. We also have works from best-selling authors James Buchanan, Kimberly Gardner, J.P. Bowie and William Maltese to name only a few of the exciting authors writing for MLR Press.

Join us. Sample our stories. We have something for everyone. From lust-filled, stolen moments to long, lazy afternoons of lovemaking to intriguing mysteries and fantasies, we have the adventures you're looking for wrapped up in solid plots with heroes you can love with a passion. Maybe even hate with a passion, but passion will be a part of it. Our authors are skilled wordsmiths who weave tales of mayhem, lust and romance that will set your heart pounding and your temperature rising. Intriguing, erotic, sometimes explicit, but always enticing novels filled with action, suspense and sultry goodness.

You know you want to. Go ahead. Read us. Reading IS man's second favorite activity to do in bed.

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