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Head of Zeus: Accepting Manuscripts Submissions

Updated August 22, 2023. They appear to be permanently closed to unagented submissions. Head of Zeus is a UK based print publisher that was founded in early 2012. They publish a wide variety of work including non-fiction, literary fiction, general and genre fiction. They have a number of imprints and have good distribution in the…
Fantasy Fiction Issue Two Hundred Thirty Four Manuscript Publishers Mystery Non Fiction Romance Science Fiction Women's Fiction

eXtasy Books: Accepting Submissions

eXtasy is an eBook publisher that pays 40% royalties to all of their authors. They only publish Erotica, however their imprint Divine Destinies publishes romance books. Although my impression from the Divine Destinies web page is that it is less active. They have an easy to use, well organized website that is clearly reader orientated….
Erotica Issue Two Hundred Twenty Two Manuscript Publishers Romance

Inkspell Publishing: Accepting Now Accepting Submissions

Inskspell Publishing started out as an eBook and print on demand Romance publisher in 2011. They now seem to focus on publishing eBooks primarily. Their eBooks have excellent covers, much better than most small and some big romance publishers. A number of their books have good reviews on Amazon, although most have not sold that…
Issue Two Hundred Twenty One Manuscript Publishers Romance

ImaJinn Books:

UPDATED August 2023: They do not appear to be acquiring books any more and are publishing very few through the imprint. UPDATED May 2021: They have been acquired by BelleBooks/BellBridge. The ImaJinn imprint is still publishing paranormal romance, science fiction and fantasy romance, and the occasional urban fantasy, but most of the straight urban fantasy…
Issue Two Hundred Seven Manuscript Publishers Romance

Black Lyon Publishing: Accepting Book Manuscripts

Updated August 2023 Black Lyon Publishing is a small but established publisher of romance novels, eBook and printed, out of Oregon. Some of their books also have audio versions. They just recently started to publish works of non-fiction. The non-fiction categories they are interested in are as follows: Politics & Government (Opinions or satire, American…
Issue One Hundred Ninety Eight Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction Romance

SMP Swerve: Now Accepting Book Submissions

UPDATED: They appear to be no longer open to unagented submissions. St Martin’s Press is an imprint of Macmillan, one of the big 5 publishers. SMP Swerve is the digital first romance publishing imprint of St Martin’s. ‘Digital first’ is a term applied to publishers and imprints that initially publish eBooks and then depending on…
Accept Previously Published Work Issue One Hundred Ninety Four Manuscript Publishers Romance

Forever Yours: Now Accepting Book Submissions

Updated March 19th, 2020 Forever is the romance imprint of Grand Central Publishing. Grand Central Publishing is an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, one of the big five publishers. Forever Yours is the digital sister of Forever, they focus on publishing unagented authors, and often publish authors without a publication history. They publish eBooks,…
Issue One Hundred Ninety Two Manuscript Publishers Paranormal Romance

Kensington Publishing: Now Accepting Book Queries

This large independent publisher is based out of New York. They publish a wide variety of mainstream fiction and nonfiction books, with a particular focus on romance. They publish an average of 600 books a year, so they accept a lot more submissions than most independent publishers. To get a good feeling for what they…
Issue One Hundred Eighty Four Manuscript Publishers Mystery Non Fiction Romance Women's Fiction

Lyrical Press: Accepting Manuscript Submissions

UPDATED OCTOBER 2022 Lyrical Press is an electronic only imprint of Kensington, a large independent publisher. Kensington and Lyrical both publish mainstream novels and seem to put a fair amount of pressure on the author to promote their books. They publish a large number of books per year. Lyrical publishes books in all romance genres…
Issue One Hundred Eighty One Manuscript Publishers Romance Women's Fiction

7 Ways to Win Over Romance Book Editors

Writing romance is not easy. The world’s largest publisher of romance fiction receives about twenty thousand unsolicited romance submissions per year. Editors often say that they judge the potential of a manuscript based on the opening lines. It isn’t surprising then that only a handful of manuscripts get requests for a full submission. Even then,…
Issue One Hundred Seventy Three Romance Special Feature

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