Books with a Sapphic twist
Nuance Books is dedicated to the best in mainstream lesbian fiction.
We’re currently looking for stories that are positive, quirky, clever, funny, light, breezy . . . you get the idea. No stories driven exclusively by angst or melodrama or excessive navel-gazing or endless strife or paint-by-number plots. We love stories that make us laugh, or at least smile a lot, and stories that stray from the garden path of expectation in amusing ways. In other words, stories that are fun and original and entertaining and if they have an out-of-the-blue surprise or two, or clever twists, even better.
The protagonist must be a lesbian, and the story must be character-driven, well-written, and well-plotted. We are looking for literary, mystery, action/adventure, romance, and those quirky stories the defy category. We’re not interested in horror, erotica, over-used profanity, or extreme violence.
We’re also interested in out-of-print books that deserve to be back in print again for our new Nuance Classics imprint. We welcome suggestions of your favorite out-of-print books, and queries and submissions from owners of the rights for these books.
55,000 words and up.
Special Categories:
Featherblush Romances — 55,000 words and up. Light, breezy romances that steam up the windows and make a feather blush.
Digital Featherblush Romances — 20,000 to 45,000 words. Ebook Editions with an option to be included in print collections of novellas. Light, breezy romances that steam up the windows and make a feather blush.
Dove Feather Romances — 50,000 to 65,000 words. Short, sweet, funny, quirky romances, with an emphasis on romance rather than sex.
Digital Dove Feather Romances — 20,000 to 45,000 words. Ebook Editions with an option to be included in print collections of novellas. Short, sweet, funny, quirky romances, with an emphasis on romance rather than sex.
Cryptic Quill Mysteries — 55,000 to 70,000 words. Light, breezy mysteries that surprise and amuse and contain unexpected twists and turns on the way to solving the mystery.
Digital Cryptic Quill Mysteries — 20,000 to 50,000 words. Ebook Editions with an option to be included in print collections of novellas. Light, breezy mysteries that surprise and amuse and contain unexpected twists and turns on the way to solving the mystery.
Digital Nuance — Ebook editions of books that are currently in print by other publishers or are out-of-print. If you’ve published a print edition of a book that features a lesbian protagonist, and the book is literary, mystery, action/adventure, or romance and you own the ebooks rights, we would love to publish the ebook edition for you.
No simultaneous submissions please.
Prepare the manuscript according to Standard Manuscript Format.
Save the file as an .rtf.
Use the title (or the first few words of the title) of the book as the filename.
titleofbook.rtf
If a single file is too large to send, split it and add a number for each part to the filename.
titleofbook1.rtf
titleofbook2.rtf
Prepare a simple cover e-mail that states that a story entitled “insert title” by “insert author’s name” is attached for consideration by Nuance Books.
In the Subject line put
Submission:Title of Book
Attach the rtf file to the e-mail and address it to nuance-subs@bedazzledink.com
We report back within three months. Feel free to inquire on the status of your submission after three months.
We look forward to your submissions.
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