Submission Guidelines

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1. Novels. Minimum length is 20,000 words. We prefer 90,000 words as a maximum, but we are flexible in this regard. We will not reject an otherwise acceptable but longer work, provided that the story is fast-paced throughout its length.
2. Series of Novels. If an author has completed a series of related works, and we accept the first book, we will also accept the other novels in the series, unless we discover the quality of those to be markedly inferior to that of the first book. Each book in the series should stand alone (have a definite conclusion: a happy ending).

1. The entire manuscript of a work not only completely finished, but also lovingly, painstakingly edited and polished, and placed in the format we require. (See the section on formatting.) We will not accept submissions that require exhaustive editing!
2. Eroticism. Explicit sensual scenes form a requirement for acceptance. We will not accept conventional “vanilla” romance. We want highly erotic romance. But no matter how sexually explicit the story is, it must basically be a romance, which means it must be a love story with a happy ending.
3. Cross-genre erotic romances will be welcomed. Those we define as love stories that combine erotica with significant elements of another genre, such as action/adventure, fantasy, historical, mystery/suspense, paranormal, science fiction, vampire, or westerns. To be accepted, the work must be one in which the erotic/romantic elements predominate.
4. Believable, likeable, well-developed characters. Make the personalities of your main protagonists appealing! Their bodies don't have to be beautiful, but they must have attractive personas.
5. A riveting plot. We want those fascinating characters to be caught up in an intense, dramatic, suspenseful conflict: one charged with sexual tension. We want to see an action-packed beginning that immediately draws us into the unfolding drama. We want the suspense to build toward a thunderous climax (no pun intended!), in which the problems facing the protagonists get resolved, the machinations of the villains, if any, get foiled, the lovers achieve far deeper understanding of both themselves and each other, and all ends happily. We want stories that are upbeat and life-affirming, even if ultra-erotic.
6. Non-teen-aged protagonists. We prefer that the protagonists not be callow teenagers just turned eighteen, but rather lovers who are at least somewhat older: lovers whose personalities and sexual prowess grew, as thosemen and women gained a varied experience of life, passion and love. (We refer here to human lovers, of course. Authors of cross-genre works such as science fiction/erotica need not feel constricted by this preference.) We welcome novels featuring passionate, sexy, virile protagonists who are middle-aged, or even quite mature.
7. Originality. We want stories that stand apart from those of established, successful authors. We want stories written by people possessed of a vivid imagination, an ability to write memorable prose, a talent for creating lively, natural-sounding dialogue, and a determination to avoid long, dull, descriptive, repetitive passages that impede the flow of the narrative. We want novels written by authors who positively revel in portraying sensual scenes, and who possess a flair for dreaming up unique, sexually charged conflicts. We don't want trite, labored, obviously imitative efforts to produce a work of erotica, simply out of a belief that erotica sells well. Inspired erotica sells well!

1. Pornography, which we define as writing comprised of a pointless succession of graphic portrayals of steamy sex intended solely to initiate arousal. We want writing possessing literary merit. We want well-constructed narratives that engage the minds and the hearts of our readers!
2. Pedophilia (sexual intercourse between adults and minor children).
3. Bestiality (sexual intercourse with animals). Animals native to Earth, that is. This rule may be waived in the case of certain characters created by authors of fantasy or science fiction.
4. Depictions of excretory functions, or the misuse of the products of those functions.
5. Necrophilia (sexual intercourse with dead bodies).
6. Descriptions of, or even mention of, the insertion of sharp objects such as knives or swords into bodily orifices, or any other injurious insertions.
7. Stories that portray murder as a sexual turn-on, or which justify and/or contain lurid descriptions of the commission of the crimes of rape or incest, or which convey that those crimes constitute acceptable behavior on the part of characters presented as good, as opposed to evil villains. And don't describe in lurid detail what the evil villains do in that regard.
8. Stories that include material intended to degrade or vilify any particular human social group.

1. A full contract will be supplied to the author for review upon our acceptance of the work.
2. Royalties: 35 % of the cover price for ebooks sold from our site, 35 % of the amount received from a reseller, and 10 % of the retail price for POD print books.
3. Rights: we will acquire only the digital rights, for five years, with an option to extend the time if the author agrees.
4. Royalty payments that total more than $25.00 will be paid quarterly to an author supplied PayPal Account.

1. Do not put blank lines between the paragraphs of text.
2. Do not use headers or footers, and do not number the pages.
3. Use one-inch margins.
4. Leave two spaces between sentences.
5. Thoughts expressed by a character, as opposed to spoken words, must be italicized rather than placed within quotation marks. Foreign words or phrases, and words that the author wishes to emphasize, must also be italicized. Do not use underlining for this purpose.
6. Do not press the Tab key at the beginning of each paragraph! Doing so will double the degree of indentation. If you habitually do that, and are now putting a completed manuscript into the format we require, please remove all the Tab arrows at the beginning of each paragraph. To render those Tab arrows visible, click on the Show/Hide icon in the Standard MS Word toolbar.
7. We strongly recommend that you get into the habit of activating the Show/Hide icon on the Standard MS Word Toolbar as you write, so as to see not only the arrows made by the Tab key, but also the dots representing spaces and the symbols representing paragraph marks.
8. Try not to leave two spaces at the end of the last sentence of a paragraph. Those wrap around. In some formats used by publishers, those wrapped-around spaces can cause trouble. We urge you to perform the tedious task of removing those, if they abound in your manuscript, before sending it to us.

1. In the upper right hand corner, place the following, each on its own line:
1. Your real name
2. Pen name you wish used
3. Word count
4. Your mailing address
5. Your telephone number
6. Your email address
2. Starting on Line 5, where the title of your book should appear, insert the properly formatted, single-spaced manuscript.
3. Separate chapters with a Page Break. To insert a Page Break, click on Insert , in the main MS Word toolbar, and then on Break, and then on “Page Break.” Do not leave blank space above the chapter heading.