Call: M/M and Menage Steampunk Anthology, Title TBA
Edited by: Leigh Ellwood
Projected release date: late 2010
Format: eBook (with possible print release)
Publisher: Phaze Books
Payment: $50 for one-time electronic and print rights, plus copies

Hey, all you steampunk enthusiasts, grab your goggles and get to writing! Phaze Books is planning an M/M (and bi-M menage) steampunk collection for eBook publication in 2010. If you have a yen for 19th century history with a touch of good humor and technological innovation (and a whole lot of manlove!), we hope you’ll send us your hottest steampunk erotic romance of 10K - 20K words. If you’re not sure about the genre, check out this Wikipedia entry for steampunk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk) to get an idea of the style of stories we’re looking for. Think H.G. Wells or Wild Wild West, then turn up the steam factor with an incredible M/M or MMF/MMM match-up!

This call is open indefinitely until the spots are filled. Contributors will offer one-time electronic and print rights to their works and receive a one-time payment of $50 and contributors copies (eBook and/or print, if the book goes to print).

To submit to this anthology, please follow the Phaze Books structural guidelines at http://www.phaze.com/submissions.html and attach your RTF submission to Leigh Ellwood, c/o Phaze Books at submissions @ phaze (dot) com. Please use STEAMPUNK ANTHOLOGY is your subject header.

Launched in November, 2004, Phaze Books has offered a wide selection of erotic romance and women’s erotica in eBook and print formats. We are proud to have a number of best-selling and rising stars of romance in our catalog, as well as a Romantic Times Top Pick, an EPPIE winner, and several EPPIE nominees. Please visit us at http://www.phaze.com

Accentuate Writers and Accentuate Services (the editors), in conjunction with Twin Trinity Media Company (the publisher), are seeking open submissions for the 2009 Accentuate Writers Erotic Anthology from you (the writers!).

This is NOT a contest, but open submissions of erotic short stories.

There is no reading fee. There is no cost to submit. There is no cost for being published. In fact, you are not required to pay for anything. You are not even required to purchase anything to be considered for publication. All authors selected for publication will receive a royalty contract as well as a small upfront payment (between $15-250 upfront), to be made as an 'offer for advance'. Each author will receive a percentage of royalty for each book sold (as a standard royalty paying author's contract), based on their percentage of contributing to the anthology (determined by final word counts).

All selected authors will receive two free copies of the anthology in which their story appears, as well as being able to purchase books at a 50% discount off retail sale price, as the special author's pricing. No purchase is required, ever.

If interested in submitting, please keep the following in mind:

Accentuate is not looking for pornography, neither are we looking for romance writing. What we seek is something somewhere in the middle: romance with a heat level that sizzles, while still telling a great story!

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Who we are:
Damnation Books is a new ebook publisher. We specialize in dark writing: horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, science fiction and erotica (within the genres of horror, dark fantasy, thrillers and science fiction). Being new, we are focusing on ebooks. We have plans to go into trade paperbacks with novel length and anthology works within a year.

We officially launch the company in September 2009 with twenty-five titles. Our current plans are to hold a launch party at KillerCon in Las Vegas in September 2009. After the initial opening, we will release twelve new titles every three months.

We accept unsolicited submissions. Multiple submissions are fine so long as you keep us informed of the book's status and let us know immediately should it be sold elsewhere.
Turnaround time is currently expected at four to six weeks. Please don't inquire until that length of time has passed.

Word lengths:
" Short stories 5,000 to 10,000 words
" Novellas 10,001 to 60,000
" Novels 60,001 to 120,000

Our pay rate for short stories is .03 cents per word with a max length of 10,000 words. Novellas and novel length works are royalty based at 40% net. We are unable to pay advances at this time. We ask for worldwide electronic and North American print rights for a three year period from the date of release. There will NEVER be any fees charged to authors for being published by us. Reprints are fine so long as the work is out of print in any format anywhere and you have full rights returned to you. Yes, we will ask for proof if we offer you a contract. A release letter or email will do at that time.
Our preferred method of payment is through PayPal. We pay quarterly.

Ebooks will be sold via our website and a number of ebook vendors in multiple formats.

What we want: full details on their website

http://www.damnationbooks.com/

Unmasked II: More Erotic Tales of Gay Superheroes

Edited by Eric Summers
Deadline: March 15, 2009

The response to "Unmasked: Erotic Tales of Gay Superheroes" was so positive that we have decided to publish a sequel.

What made the first "Unmasked" so well received was the originality of the characters and the great amount of humor, making it erotic and fun! If you contributed to "Unmasked," please consider a sequel to your story.

For those who wish to contribute for the first time, we are looking for superheroes that are original and not cliché, and a sexy sidekick is always welcome! Your superhero should have both an extraordinary talent and not so obvious weakness. All we ask is that your superheroes are hot and their actions hotter. And of course, we want them to be fun.

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Boys Getting Ahead

Edited by Mickey Erlach
Deadline October 15 2009

Everyone has heard of the casting couch, but did you know it stretches far beyond Hollywood? Many a stud has used his “talents” to get ahead, whether in an office, a loading dock, a store, or especially in politics. After all, to get ahead in life, you sometimes have to take it like a man, or give as good as you get.

BOYS GETTING AHEAD is about those ambitious young men, who will do what it takes as often as necessary to grab the brass ring or at least wear it. There are no limits to what some of these guys will do. If the boss wants it rough, that’s cool. If the boss wants romance, that’s perfectly acceptable. And, if the boss wants to throw you to the curb and treat you like a whore, that’s the chance you take. Who said having a successful life was going to be easy?

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TEAMMATES
Edited by Eric Summers

Deadline: November 15, 2009

There you are in the locker room after a hard practice, watching your teammates strip and head to the open shower room, and suddenly the practice isn’t the only thing that is hard. Or, during wrestling practice, you are paired up with the best built, most handsome guy on the team, whose singlet is stretched beyond its limits everywhere possible. You are the quarterback and the new center has the hottest butt you’ve ever seen, and now he is bent over in front of you with your hands against his crotch, ready to hike the ball. What do you do? What have you done? What do you regret not doing?

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Sloppy or poorly written stories will not be considered, replied to, or acknowledged!!!
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Like An Animal
Erotic tales of werewolves. We did an anthology with this theme back in 1995 called “The Beast Within.” Explore the animal side of lust, and the attraction of dark magic. Whether you see lycanthropy as a sexually transmitted disease or an intriguing fetish, celebrate sex and desire through this fantastical lens.

Like A Myth
Give us an erotic tale with its basis in non-western folklore or myth. Faraway places and fantasy are the rule, which means avoiding settings anchored in the Western World (Canada, the United States, and the bulk of Europe). There are many other cultures to explore as a basis for fantasy, each with their own rich environment and colorful folklore, that creates the potential for some very engaging erotica. Genie granting steamy wishes in the Arabian desert. Sexy Russian ice princes. Japanese fox spirits. Transport the reader into a whole new world that will leave them gasping for more.

Wired Hard 4.0
Following on from the successful print books Wired Hard 1, 2, and 3, we will be reading for hard-edged erotic stories of men on men. Whether you explore faraway planets, cyberpunk, or space opera, or swords & sorcery, urban fantasy, or something that defies description of genre, if it involves masculine desire for the masculine, we want it. Please note that we expect writers to either be male or to write under male/gender neutral pseudonyms. If you need some examples, ebook editions of Wired Hard 2 and Wired Hard 3 are available for sale.

Planet Boylove
This will be a collection of erotica with a gay male or m/m theme, but its main difference from the Wired Hard books is that female author names and female pseudonyms may be used. It’s no secret that a lot of the gay male pornography, erotica, and romance novels of the past 30 years were/are written by female authors under pseudonyms. Less talked about among traditional publishers is how many readers of m/m fiction may be female. Through the worlds of fanfiction and japanese yaio in translation, though, there is undeniably an audience whose enthusiasm for boylove ought to be recognised and celebrated! Hence, this book. Science fiction or fantasy explicitly erotic stories of m/m please. If you’re really not sure if your story should go in Wired Hard or in Planet Boylove, don’t worry. We’ll figure it out.

Up for Grabs
An anthology of erotic futures where gender is up for grabs. Today thousands of people spend time on the Internet identified with a gender other than the one they were born with. Sometimes they do so for erotic gratification, and sometimes because they get a special benefit for one gender over another. How will people be able to experience other genders in the future? Why will they do so? Would you change genders just for fun? To carry on the family name? To have a child? What if you got a tax break for doing so? What if you could choose to be no gender at all until you went on a date? Would you want to try being both genders at once, or would you rather start over and invent your own? In the future, will it be widely acceptable to be gender queer? Illegal? Mandatory? UP FOR GRABS will be strictly science fiction. Setting your story twenty years in the future does not automatically make it science fiction. We will consider stories that are ‘retro,’ that take on gender stereotypes of the past and give them a future twist.

As mentioned above, reading period for all anthologies ends October 31st, but books may fill up earlier than that if good submissions come in, so please do not wait until the last minute to submit!

Call for Submissions for
Total-e-bound
www.total-e-bound.com

Anthologies released every quarter - each with a distinctive theme.

We will produce a series of anthologies each year, with between five and eight short stories in each. Royalties are 40% of RRP for eBooks and 10% for print to be divided equally and fairly between the authors of the anthology.

Submissions must be new material—previously published material will not be considered.

Night of the Senses - Bondage/BDSM Anthology
Submission deadline is October 10th 2008 for release in Feb 2009

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Caught in the Middle - Ménage or more Anthology
The Submission deadline is February 10th 2009 for release in May 2009

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Friction - Gay anthology
The Submission deadline is May 10th 2009 for release in August 2009

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Send all submissions to submissions@total-e-bound.com

Editor Joseph R.G. DeMarco will be reading for a forthcoming Lethe Press gay men's anthology tentatively entitled
A Study in Lavender: Queering Holmes.
Submissions will be read from January 1, 2009 through March 30, 2009

All stories must be both gay-themed and mysteries set in the Holmes mythos, however the character of Sherlock Holmes need not be the focus or even present.

Writers must do their homework to ensure that the stories are historically accurate if taking place in the Holmes era (though tales can be set later than the Victorian era, such as in the Golden Age of Hollywood during the filming of a Holmes movie or other appropriately familiar settings).

Before you submit, please query the editor with a synopsis of your story and the content, specifically, which characters are being queered.

Word Count: Submissions should be between 1,000 words and 8,000 words. Longer works may be considered but require advance permission from the editor.

Payment: 2 cents a word, of course, plus 2 copies of the book.

Submissions will be read from January 1, 2009 through March 30, 2009. Queries/Submissions to: holmesanthology@gmail.com

No electronic submissions will be accepted EXCEPT in the case of writers living outside of the United States.

A street address for submissions will be provided once you send an email query with the required synopsis, etc. If you would like to have your submission returned, please send a self-addressed envelope with sufficient return postage.

Electronic copies will be required for submissions accepted for publication.

Email queries and other communication may be made to holmesanthology@gmail.com

ERIC SUMMERS ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION CALL
Service with a Smile – Fun with Couriers, Contractors and Plumbers
edited by Eric Summers
Deadline: August 15, 2008( Read more... )

HISTORICAL NOVEL SUBMISSION CALL
Historically-based Single Author Erotic Novel or Anthology
Deadline: December 30, 2008( Read more... )