28 April 2011

Open to Gay/ Lesbian/ Bisexual Fiction: Secret Cravings Publishing

Post date: 28 April 2011
At this time, we are accepting submissions for all genres of romance including: Historical, Contemporary, and Futuristic Time Periods
  • Gay/Lesbian
  • Bisexual
Secret Cravings Publishing is a full-service, royalty paying publisher of general fiction and non-fiction books, focusing on Romance and high quality Literary Fiction. We publish in electronic and paperback formats. Electronic formats will include pdf, epub, and html. Distribution on third party websites include Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Bookstrand, ARe and 1romance ebooks. We are working on other channels as well. Books over 50,000 words will go to print.

Our standard 40% of the cover price is paid quarterly based on gross e-book sales. We pay 40% on gross third party sales. Our terms of contract are now for the standard three years and require full digital. 20% royalty will be paid on print copies. Contracts are negotiable.

Authors are not required to pay for any editing or promotional services. We are not a vanity press or self-publishing company.

We are open to various types of submissions at this time: Fiction and Non-fiction, Romance and Romance subgenres. Your manuscript must have a happily ever or happy for
now ending.

We are seeking high quality original short stories, novellas, and novels that have never been published before.

We do accept reprints and self-published works as long as you are a contracted author
with Secret Cravings Publishing. You must show us your terminated agreement(s) and
letter stating your termination with whomever you have published with in the past.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us in your query if you have
submitted your manuscript to other companies as well as ours.

Please send query letter with your contact information, synopsis, and completed manuscript to submissions@secretcravingspublishing.com. If you do not receive a confirmation email stating we have received your manuscript, please resend it.

Length:
  • Short Stories: 5,000 to 15,000 words
  • Novella: 16,000 to 45,000 words
  • Novel: 45,001 to 120,000 words
If you have questions about the company, please feel free to email publisher@secretcravingspublishing.com. We would be more than happy to give you
information about the company, our experience and our plans for promotion and
distribution. You are also encouraged to email our authors and talk to them about the
company and their experiences. Contact information for each author is available on our authors page.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: publisher@secretcravingspublishing.com

For submissions: submissions@secretcravingspublishing.com

Website: http://www.secretcravingspublishing.com
This blog is no longer updated. Please instead visit Writers For Diversity for new opportunities for women/ LGBT writers and writers of color. Thank you.