Pitch To - ETOPIA PRESS - MFRW's 22nd Publisher SPOTLIGHT

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 TWENTY-SECOND SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: ETOPIA PRESS

Submission Guidelines

Etopia Press is currently looking for the best, most unique, most well-crafted stories out there — and we know they’re out there. Traditional genre fiction, non-traditional or cross-genre fiction, general and literary fiction — there’s no limit to where a writer’s imagination can go when he or she is inspired, and there’s always a reader who wants to go along for the ride.

We’re a royalty-paying publisher. We are not a vanity press or a self-publishing service. We provide complete, professional editing and cover design by some of the best editors and artists in the business, as well as wide distribution through all major retailers, review coordination, and marketing support. We pay 40% royalties on e-books, and all books over 40,000 words in all genres are released in both e-book and print formats. Shorter works may be considered for inclusion in e-book and print anthologies.

We Now Offer an Advance on Romance and Erotic Romance!

We’re happy to announce that we now offer an advance on royalties for romance and erotic romance over 40,000 words of between $100 and $500. Offers will be made on an individual basis at the time of contract. Shorter works may be considered for an advance based on the author’s publishing history and other factors.

What We Publish

We publish only new, original, previously unpublished work (and select reprints) in electronic and print formats for all genres. The future of publishing is in emerging electronic markets and media, and we specifically want to pursue them. But we also want to make books available in trade paperback for authors and readers who just like them better that way. We’re sorry, but we cannot consider previously or currently self-published work.

We’re currently looking for great novels, novellas, and short stories in the following categories:

Traditional Genres: Fantasy, Urban fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Action, Romance, Erotic Romance, and Erotica. For romance, we’re looking for all subgenres, all lengths, and all heat levels from sweet to erotic, including LGBT, interracial, multicultural, big beautiful women, May/December (either the hero or the heroine can be the December), ménage and poly, BDSM, fetish, etc.
Non-traditional or Cross-Genres: Historical sci-fi, erotic thrillers, paranormal mysteries… you get the idea. Add to this whatever your muse tells you to write that may not fit traditional categories. Will all non-traditional ideas work? Probably not. Will we accept anything just because it’s “different?” Nope. But if you can make it work, and make us stay up too late at night reading it, you’ll probably keep other readers up late, too.

General Fiction and Literary Fiction: If you write this, you know what it is. All themes and styles will be considered, including short fiction and short fiction collections.

Young Adult: We’re looking for books in all subgenres that speak to teens and young adults about the challenges they face in today’s world, whether the story is contemporary, fantasy, historical, or something else. No preachy, dogmatic, or goodie-two-shoes stories (unless the story is about the trials and tribulations of being a goodie-two-shoes in a world full of street gangs, werewolves or Russian mafia). Female protagonists are preferred, but we’ll consider the well-written male-oriented story as well. Please keep protagonists in their later teens. We are not considering middle grade fiction at this time.

LGBT: We happily and proudly accept and encourage LGBT works in all the above traditional and non-traditional genres, including romance and erotic romance, as well as general and literary fiction, in all lengths.

Interracial, Multicultural, BBW, etc: People come in all colors, shapes, sizes, creeds, sexual orientations, cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds… the list goes on. We’d love to see more diversity in all genres and literary fiction.

What We Won’t Publish

Porn (erotica and erotic romance are not “porn”).
Rape for titillation (exploring it for literary reasons is OK. This isn’t the same as capture fantasy or dubious consent in romance. If you’re not sure what the difference is, please query us).

Erotica or erotic romance involving sex with characters under the age of 18, pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality, incest, or “bodily functions for sport.” All characters in romance and erotic romance must be sentient beings (even if they’re shape-shifters, vampires, or aliens).

Racial or gender intolerance, hatred, bigotry, etc. (where it’s presented as a good thing or your social ideal. Stories “about” racism or other social issues, or featuring evil, well-written antagonists, are welcome and encouraged). If you’re not sure what the difference is, please query us.

For more information on the specific requirements of our various romance lines, please see our Romance Lines page.

For the kinds of books we’re most interested in at any given time, please see our Submission Calls page.

A Note on Fan Fiction

Please don’t send us stories based on your favorite TV shows, movies, books, anime, manga, video games, etc. Fan fiction can be a great way to connect with other fans and keep your favorite worlds alive, but we can’t publish it. Changing the names of characters isn’t enough to qualify the story as an “original work.”

Previously Published vs. Self-published Work

We prefer to publish new, unpublished works; however, we’re happy to consider reprint submissions of works which have been previously published by professional, royalty-paying publishers. If you’re looking for a new home for work that was previously published by another publisher, please note this in your cover letter and give us a brief description of the book’s publishing history. If we accept it, we’ll ask you to provide your reversion of rights letter from the previous publisher.
Due to the high volume of self-published submissions we received over the last year, which proved mostly unsuitable for us, we regret that we can no longer consider previously or currently self-published work.

Simultaneous Submissions

We understand that it makes no sense having your work spend years going around from one publisher to the next getting old and losing its timeliness. Simultaneous submissions are perfectly acceptable. If you accept a contract elsewhere, congratulations! After you celebrate, please remember to be courteous and jot a quick note to the other publishers considering your book and withdraw your submission.

Pitch To - FEATHERWEIGHT PRESS - MFRW's 21st Publisher SPOTLIGHT

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 TWENTY-FIRST SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: FEATHERWEIGHT PRESS

An imprint of MLR Press, LLC, owned by author and publisher, Laura Baumbach, Featherweight Publishing is a Childrens and YA press.

Children's picture books to Young Adult romances, thrillers and more, Featherweight Press is an eclectic mix of excitement, adventure and exploration.

While we publish works from experienced and talented adult authors, we also feature a less traditional line of books in our Crayon Line. In the effort to encourage aspiring writer and foster confidence in our next generation of author, we offer children's books written by children. We believe in finding that undeveloped kernel of budding talent and providing it with professional editing and guidance, mentoring our literary future.

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

Pitch To - SILVER PUBLISHING - MFRW's 20th SPOTLIGHTED Publisher

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 TWENTIETH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: SILVER PUBLISHING

Silver Publishing is an e-Book publisher of homosexual and heterosexual romance and erotic romance novels, novellas, short fiction and anthologies.

We do not offer advances; however we do pay royalties on sales from our website and from our distributors approximately 45 days after the end of each quarter. Silver Publishing pays 50% net on royalties earned for e-book and paperback sales whether it be on Silver Publishing or from one of our distribution partners.

For a sample contract, feel free to email us at admin@spsilverpublishing.com

Services Provided

SILVER PUBLISHING WILL PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING SERVICES TO AUTHORS:
• Editorial Service
• Exclusive Book Cover Art
• ISBN for your book
• Promotional Assistance for your book
• Auto removal of your book from various pirate sites

The above services are at no cost to the author.

An exclusive cover will be used for manuscripts with a word count of 15,001 or more, excepting special submissions where a generic cover is a part of the submission (for example, Summer Heat).

DISTRIBUTORS:
• All Romance Ebooks
• OmniLit
• BookStrand
• 1Romance e-Books
• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Sony
• Kobo
• Apple iPad (iBookstore)
• And many more other online distributors!

PRINT BOOKS ARE LISTED ON:
• Amazon
• Various Bookstores and Online Retailers including Barnes & Noble
• Libraries

Our Book Standards

SP accepts both homosexual and heterosexual erotic romance. Although accepted works do not need to contain graphic sex scenes, a sexual relationship between two or more characters must be integral to the storyline. We also welcome stories which are unexpected, surprising, dark, controversial, and cross-genre. We accept both stand-alone and well-developed series. We have only a few exclusions, and here they are:

ABSOLUTELY NO:
 Pedophilia. Specifically, sexual interaction between adults and under aged characters.
 Necrophilia. Specifically, sexual interaction between characters and corpses. (Undead is fine.)
 Bestiality. Specifically, sexual interaction between characters and animals (not shifters).
 Rape for titillation. That is, rape specifically written to arouse the reader.

Rape is acceptable in the following instances:
 If it is not arousing and is used by a character (the non-hero or -heroine of the story) to demonstrate malicious intent
 If it is referenced in the character’s past
 Scat
 Snuff
 Watersports

GENRES:
• CONTEMPORARY – modern day love stories with strong characters
• HISTORICAL – love stories dating back in time which remain within the same era (no time travel); Vikings, Medieval, Tudors, Elizabethan, Regency, Pirate, Colonial, Americana, etc.
• PARANORMAL – vampires, werewolves, shifters, zombies, boogie men, etc.
• WESTERNS – Cowboys, ranchers, and Native Americans.
• BDSM – bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadomasochism (must be Safe, Sane, and consensual).
• MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/ACTION – detectives/police/investigators (anyone with a badge), fast-paced thrillers, political thrillers, mystery, crime thriller, suspense, espionage, and in-the-field stories.
• SCI-FI – Science fiction, urban worlds, futuristic, time travel, and alternate reality.
• FANTASY – magic, dragons, elves, fairies, myths, etc.
• HOLIDAY STORIES – Valentine’s Day, Halloween, or Christmas

LENGTH:
• Sparkle: 5,000 – 15,000 words
• Novella: 15,001 – 25,999 words
• Novel-Lite: 26,000 – 45,999 words
• Novel: 46,000 words and up (We are currently not accepting novel manuscripts with a word count of 46k and above)

Submitting a Proposal
Unsolicited manuscripts are accepted at any time via electronic file. No hard copy, printed manuscripts accepted via snail mail.

We request that you submit your proposal with the following criteria:

A SUBMISSION WITH:
 Your legal name and pen name, if applicable
 Working Title, including Series name, if applicable
 Word count (or expected word count if not completed)
 Genre(s)
 A succinct summary providing an overall summary of the story, characters, major events, climax and conclusion. This is not a blurb, but a synopsis. Please limit your summary to a maximum of three paragraphs.

FORMATTING YOUR SUBMISSION
Please follow these simple formatting guidelines.
 Manuscripts will be accepted in the following formats: .docx, .doc, .rtf, and .txt
 1.5 line spacing.
 Standard 12 pt serif font such as Times New Roman is preferred.
 1 inch margins (left, right, top and bottom) with a 0 .5 indent for the first line of each paragraph only.
 No “tabs” or spacing to indent the first paragraph line are to be used. Manuscripts with tab and space indents will be rejected immediately.
 Page numbers on the bottom center of each page.
 Header of manuscript must contain author name and title. Example: Book Title by Author Name
 All submissions must be spell-checked and edited based on US English or UK English grammar and spelling standards. (Regional words and slang are accepted when appropriate.)

SUBMISSION NOTES & TIMELINES:
 Current submission read time is approximately 6-8 weeks.
 Upon review, editors may request more than the partial manuscript for the preliminary evaluation.
 A complete manuscript will be required before a contract is offered.
 All contracts are electronically exchanged via email.

These Submission Guidelines are subject to change without notice

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

Pitch To - SILVER STREAM PRESS - MFRW's 19th Publisher SPOTLIGHTED

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 NINETEENTH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: SILVER STREAM PRESS

Who is Silver Stream Press?

Silver Stream Press, is a division of Silver Publishing, offers readers mainstream romance and fiction. These general audience stories offer content commonly found in traditional bookstores—romance, action, thriller, suspense and so much more while excluding explicit sexual or graphic content. Additionally, this division of our publishing umbrella offers Young Adult fiction. Although these stories are enjoyed by all age ranges, their content is tailored with teenage readers in mind.

We do not offer advances. In exchange, however, we pay 50% net on royalties earned for book sales from direct sales on the Silver Stream website or from one of our distribution partners.

Services Provided:

SILVER PUBLISHING WILL PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING SERVICES TO AUTHORS:

• Editorial Service
• Exclusive Book Cover Art
• ISBN for your book
• Promotional Assistance for your book
• Auto removal of your book from various pirate sites

The above services are at no cost to the author.

An exclusive cover will be used for manuscripts with a word count of 15,001 or more, excepting special submissions where a generic cover is a part of the submission (for example, Summer Heat).

DISTRIBUTORS:
• All Romance Ebooks
• OmniLit
• BookStrand
• 1Romance e-Books
• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Sony
• Kobo
• Apple iPad (iBookstore)
• And many more other online distributors!

LENGTH:

• Sparkle: 5,000 – 15,000 words
• Novella: 15,001 – 25,999 words
• Novel-Lite: 26,000 – 45,999 words
• Novel: 46,000 words and up

Our Book Standards

SSP accepts both mainstream romance and non-romance fiction.
We are interested first and foremost in books that have a story to tell for both the traditional mainstream audience and for the next generation of book lovers, our Young Adult audience.

We accept both stand-alone and well-developed series. We have several exclusions.

ABSOLUTELY NO:
 Erotic or graphic sexual content.
 Incest. Specifically, sexual relationships/interaction between blood relatives.
 Pedophilia. Specifically, sexual interaction between adults and under aged characters.
 Necrophilia. Specifically, sexual interaction between characters and corpses. (Undead is fine.)
 Bestiality. Specifically, sexual interaction between characters and animals (not shifters).
 Rape for titillation. That is, rape specifically written to arouse the reader.

Rape is acceptable in the following instances:
 If it is not arousing and is used by a character (the non-hero or -heroine of the story) to demonstrate malicious intent
 If it is referenced in the character’s past
 Scat
 Snuff
 Watersports

GENRES:

• CONTEMPORARY – modern day love stories with strong characters
• HISTORICAL – love stories dating back in time which remain within the same era (no time travel); Vikings, Medieval, Tudors, Elizabethan, Regency, Pirate, Colonial, Americana, etc.
• PARANORMAL – vampires, werewolves, shifters, zombies, boogie men, etc.
• WESTERNS – Cowboys, ranchers, and Native Americans.
• BDSM – bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadomasochism (must be Safe, Sane, and consensual).
• MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/ACTION – detectives/police/investigators (anyone with a badge), fast-paced thrillers, political thrillers, mystery, crime thriller, suspense, espionage, and in-the-field stories.
• SCI-FI – Science fiction, urban worlds, futuristic, time travel, and alternate reality.
• FANTASY – magic, dragons, elves, fairies, myths, etc.
• STEAMPUNK – science fiction/fantasy with social or technological aspects of the 19th century and a punk twist
• HOLIDAY STORIES – Valentine’s Day, Halloween, or Christmas

Submitting a Proposal

Unsolicited manuscripts are accepted at any time via electronic file. No hard copy, printed manuscripts accepted via snail mail.

We request that you submit your proposal with the following criteria:

A SUBMISSION WITH:
 Your legal name and pen name, if applicable
 Working Title, including Series name, if applicable
 Word count (or expected word count if not completed)
 Genre(s)
 A succinct summary providing an overall summary of the story, characters, major events, climax and conclusion. This is not a blurb, but a synopsis. Please limit your summary to a maximum of three paragraphs.

FORMATTING YOUR SUBMISSION
Please follow these simple formatting guidelines.
 Manuscripts will be accepted in the following formats: .docx, .doc, .rtf, and .txt
 1.5 line spacing.
 Standard 12 pt serif font such as Times New Roman is preferred.
 1 inch margins (left, right, top and bottom) with a 0 .5 indent for the first line of each paragraph only.
 No “tabs” or spacing to indent the first paragraph line are to be used. Manuscripts with tab and space indents will be rejected immediately.
 Page numbers on the bottom center of each page.
 Header of manuscript must contain author name and title. Example: Book Title by Author Name
 All submissions must be spell-checked and edited based on US English or UK English grammar and spelling standards. (Regional words and slang are accepted when appropriate.)

SUBMISSION NOTES & TIMELINES:
 Current submission read time is approximately 6-8 weeks.
 Upon review, editors may request more than the partial manuscript for the preliminary evaluation.
 A complete manuscript will be required before a contract is offered.
 All contracts are electronically exchanged via email.

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


These Submission Guidelines are subject to change without notice

Pitch To - FIRE & ICE YA - MFRW's 18th Publisher SPOTLIGHT

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 EIGHTEENTH SPOTLIGHT OF THE MANY PARTICIPATING PUBLISHERS/EDITORS: FIRE & ICE YA

We are 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.