![]() ![]() From their website: “We are looking for dynamic and diverse voices, compelling stories, and authors who are ready to build their brand.” Martin’s Press joined the club as another big publisher with a digital-only romance imprint called Swerve. From their website: “Forever Yours is currently accepting romance submissions from all subgenres, including but not limited to: contemporary romance, New Adult, category romance stories, romantic suspense, western, historical, inspirational, paranormal, time-travel, and erotica.” ![]() They are a digital romance imprint of Hachette. From their website: “We invite queries for submissions in contemporary romance, erotica, historical romance, paranormal romance, women’s fiction, and new adult.” This is a digital-only branch of Random House. Wait for a rejection with one before submitting to the other.įrom their website: “We are looking for fresh stories in a variety of categories including all romance genres (specifically suspense and historicals with unique settings), compelling psychological suspense fiction, thrillers, women’s fiction, new adult, and cozy mysteries.” Note: you are not supposed to submit to Harlequin category and Carina at the same time. They accept a variety of romance genres and are interested in what they deem “contemporary crack”. Some of their editors also show up in Twitter contests. They offer some articles with tips about what makes a good submission that is worth a read. I’ve noticed they usually have editors participating in some of the Twitter pitch contests.Ĭarina is an ebook offshoot of Harlequin. They have several romance lines with different length, heat and character requirements. From their website: “What we’re looking for now: Big, high-concept historical and contemporary romances.” It’s my understanding that they only respond if interested, otherwise there will be no reply or confirmation. This is an ebook imprint, there are other Avon books that require an agent. Note: their other lines for longer novels require an agent. They have contests like So You Think You Can Write that might be another good way in. Their wait time to hear back about a submission can be six months or longer. Don’t let the short length fool you, their requirements are very specific for each line and it’s wildly competitive. They are the short paperbacks found on grocery store racks. The only way into Harlequin without an agent is to submit a “category romance”. If holding a paperback in your hand is part of your dream, make sure to seek out the publishers that will offer that as part of the deal. Some of these publishers offer a print and e-book version of your book as part of the contract but some of these presses are strictly digital only. Here’s my list of 22 Romance Publishers Seeking Unsolicited Manuscripts This will help you avoid some of the scam publishers out there. ![]() This is especially important for small presses that you may not have heard of. Therefore if you are considering submitting your manuscripts to these or indeed any other publishers, do your research thoroughly and tread cautiously.The cool thing about romance is that there are many publishers that will consider a manuscript without an agent. Before submitting, I recommend reading about each publisher on the Absolute Write forum. I have not named them as the posts I came across were based on personal opinions and accusations. Whilst researching publishers who accept direct submissions I also came across some rather alarming posts about some of the below publishers from their writers who claim to have not been paid their royalties and other bad business practises. Many of these publishers have newsletters you can sign up to free of charge which will make it easier to see when they are holding open submission periods. At the time of writing not all of these publishers were conducting open submissions so you will need to check constantly. To help you save time I have compiled a list of publishers who will accept direct submissions. Even some of the really big names accept direct submissions from time to time such as Gollancz so keep your eyes peeled. Thankfully there are many independent publishers out there in the world wide web who will accept unsolicited submissions through periods of open submissions. This means you need an agent to be able to be considered, and let me tell you finding a good agent is just as hard as getting published.īut there is some good news. Many well known publishers no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. I thought that once I'd finished writing my first book the hard work would be over, but really it's just begun. I thought it was a struggle to find magazines to submit short stories to and have recently discovered it's even harder to find publishers to submit to with novels and novellas. ![]()
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