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, but they an option to print on demand any book over 50,000 words in length.
Forever Yours is a way to get your foot in the door of a major publisher. They also give you the advantages most eBook only publishers don’t, thorough editing, and a marketing team,
Their website is well organized and easy to navigate. I personally don’t love reading all that red on white text, but I don’t generally read romance novels, so I am not the target audience.
They do not offer advances. Their royalties are 25% of net. They try to respond to all submissions within 6-8 weeks of receiving a submission.
Forever Yours accepts 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.
To submit to them send them an email that includes a query letter, a detailed synopsis of your novel, and your completed manuscript formatted to be a RTF file.
They accept novellas as well as novels. The shortest works they publish are 12,000 words, the longest are 100,000.
To learn more visit their website here. To read their detailed submission guidelines go here.
