Seasonal Stories

Our holiday story deadlines are:
• Halloween -- submit by August 31, 2025
• Christmas/Hanukkah -- submit by October 31, 2025
• New Year's 2026 -- submit by October 31, 2025
• Valentine's Day 2026 -- submit by December 31, 2025
• Spring Break -- submit by January 31, 2026
• Summer Vacation -- submit by May 31, 2026

Coffee Shop Love

Whether it's a meet-cute at the local bookshop's coffee counter or an established couple who stop at Starbucks, give us all the coffee-flavored kisses!

Call Me!

Maybe it's a wrong number or a missed call. Maybe your character has to talk himself into calling his crush. Whatever the case, if the story involves a phone call, we want to hear about it!

Time Travel

Because we love stories involving it, that's all.

Finishing WIPs

This was popular with our in-house authors, so we're opening it up to all authors! Not really a theme but rather a personal challenge. All of us have stories we have started and set aside, or wanted to start and haven't gotten around to, or have written a scene or two that we have not been able to advance beyond a few pages. For February's subs call, we challenge you to find that half-written story or opening scene or whatever it is you have tucked away somewhere that you plan to get to at some time in your life. Well, that time is now. Pull it out. Dust it off. Finish it up and send it in. This includes anything you might have written for Nanowrimo in the past and want to get out there but haven't yet bothered to do so, or stories out of print for years now that you'd like to republish.

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Over 30 MCs

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Give us sweet stories between older lovers (this is NOT a May/December call). Whether they find love late in life or live out a lifelong love story, the lovers must both be over 30 in these stories.

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FOR ALL SUBMISSION CALLS:

• These aren't anthology calls -- stories swill be released as individual ebooks with unique covers
• Stories over 60k will also go into print
• Payment is 50% net royalties from all channels, paid quarterly
• Our contracts are for 2 years exclusive rights and autorenew
• Stories must be 12,000 words or higher
• Stories must contain a romance -- any heat level, from sweet to erotic
• The central romance must be LGBTQ ONLY
• Stories can be any subgenre (contemporary, sci-fi, fantasy, historical, paranormal, western, etc.)
• Stories must have a HEA or HFN ending
• Adult stories only (no YA)

All stories submitted must adhere to the general guidelines found on our website. We do not consider multiple or simultaneous submissions. Reprints will be considered only if the author holds exclusive rights to republish.

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Please follow our submission guidelines located here to submit the story. Submissions over 40,000 words must include a chapter-by-chapter synopsis.

We will acknowledge submissions within 1 day and have a response to you within 4 business days.

If you were working on a story for one of our submission calls and did not make the deadline, feel free to still send it in when the story is done. We'd love to take a look!