Seasonal Stories

Our holiday story deadlines are:
• Halloween -- submit by August 31, 2024
• Thanksgiving -- submit by September 30, 2024
• Christmas/Hanukkah -- submit by October 31, 2024
• New Year's -- submit by October 31, 2024
• Valentine's Day 2025 -- submit by December 31, 2024

The Color of Love

For this call, stories must have a color in the title that figures prominently in the story.

Friends to Lovers

Stories must feature a "friends to lovers" trope that sees the two protagonists starting out as pals and finding love by the end.

Summer Loving

We're looking for romances set in the heat of the summer.

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!