![]() They’re open to a wide range of lengths and subgenres. This is Harlequin’s mostly-digital publishing arm, and I published my haunted house romance Sole Possession with them. They’re looking for both romance and women’s fiction, novellas and full-length novels. They publish LGBTQ fiction, including romance. Follow those exactly for the best results! If there’s a publisher you believe should be added to the list, let me know via a private message at name of each publisher is a live link to their submission guidelines. I’ve also left off a few that specialize in certain types of erotic romance, because I have a lot of underage readers on this blog (although most of the publishers here do publish racy stuff as well.) I’ve left off some publishers because I just haven’t heard anything about them yet. Romance is a huge genre, and there are lots of opportunities out there for writers who don’t have agents. ![]() ![]() This week, I’m doing the same thing with romance! ![]() Even if the publisher has declared it out of stock there will still be copies around with wholesalers and distributors for years to come, at heavily discounted prices, and bringing out the same book with a different ISBN invariably causes confusion and trouble.Lots of my readers want to know more about how to get published, so last week, I shared a list of fantasy and science fiction publishers who accept unagented submissions. We cannot re-issue books that one of the larger publishers has dropped, or a self-published book. We do not reply to submissions through the post. Our systems are based around all books being available everywhere, for review and for sale. We only publish titles for which we have at least worldwide English-language rights. Around half our new authors are from North America, the others from the UK and most countries where English is a major language. We add around a thousand new "activities" a month to the database, several hundred new contacts, and send out a few hundred review copies a month. Your book will have several pages of its own on our database, with the scheduling and copy visible you can add to it and amend it, monthly sales figures will be there, and all the marketing on every title is visible for you to see. Manuscripts and proofs are exchanged through the database rather than by post or email. There is more about this in the Publishing Guide, in the section on Contracts.Ī criterion for getting published with us is being able to use a database, and to be willing to contribute to it. If you are a first-time fiction author, have little or no experience of the market, and the proposal is likely to be thin on the marketing side, and if you would be offended by being asked to pay a subsidy, please move straight along to another publisher. They are more frequent in fiction, which we find harder to sell than non-fiction. The number of subsidy contracts varies across the imprints. About one in ten of the titles on the list have a subsidy from the author, directed either towards more editorial or marketing work than we can normally provide. Depending on how many we think it could sell, we offer varying levels of contract. We only offer to publish if we like the book. The reports assess both the quality of the book and its "marketability". Our readers are experienced, knowledgeable about the market, and usually authors themselves. Each Proposal gets a number of in-house reader reports, visible to the author. Authors that make it through that are asked to fill in a full Proposal. This alchemic mix of author and subject is what makes our list so unique and successful. We want authors with talent, who are ambitious, committed to working with us to promote their books and know how to connect with their community. We are looking for books that will inspire, inform and illuminate the lives of readers - with subjects that push the boundaries, are unusual or definitive (maybe even both), delve into new areas of popular subjects, and could never be classed as generic.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |