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

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

Pink Petal Books
Various deadlines

At Pink Petal Books we believe that love is a beautiful thing, and what’s more romantic than receiving flowers? Of course, giving flowers doesn’t have to be romantic, but isn’t it more fun when it is? Pink Petal Books seeks well-written romance stories starting with one character receiving flowers. The flowers can be received for any reason, and they don’t necessarily need to be received from the other major character(s) in the story.

Each themed anthology will contain three to four 15,000-25,000 word novellas released first as individual ebooks, then published together into one print volume. Heat levels in each story need to start at sensual and work up to erotic. On the Pink Petal Books scale these will be rose or cosmos stories, with partially or fully explored love scenes. Language may range from the occasional frank or graphic language to no holds barred.

Our first anthology will be Pink Petal Books Presents: Shifters. All stories need to contain a shifter as either the hero or heroine. Different shifters preferred. Think about animals you haven’t seen in books, or seen very rarely, and use your imagination. You can submit a wolf, but preference will be given to the different animals, so the wolf story should be exceptional and new. Deadline for stories will be July 15 with decisions made by August 1. Electronic publication will happen during our official launch month of October, with print publication to follow in February 2009.

As long as your story starts with a character receiving flowers and fits the theme and sensuality level, there are no other restrictions on genre.

Payment will be 35% royalty on sales price for ebooks (except stories sold through third party vendors, which will be 45% of net (sales price - vendor cut = net). Print books will be our standard 10% royalty split between the three or four authors in the volume.

How to submit: Please email your complete manuscript attached in RTF/Word format to meditor@pinkpetalbooks.com. Include in the body of the email a word count and brief blurb (one or two paragraphs). For more information about us, please read our complete submission guidelines.

Upcoming anthologies are:

Pink Petal Books Presents: Dragons
Submission Deadline: November 15, decisions by Dec 1
Electronic Publication: March 2009, print July 2009

Pink Petal Books Presents: Nature (think Shamans and Druids)
Submission Deadline: April 15, decisions by May 1
Electronic Publication: August 2009, print December 2009

(Director's note:  I'm assuming that they mean July 15 2008, November 15 2008 and April 15 2009 but I'm getting confirmation. I don't know this publisher at all, so normal caveats apply)

Ellora’s Cave Theme Series

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Hunters For Hire Continuity Series

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 Ménage and More Anthology

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Tickle My Fantasy Anthology

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Tip: Make sure you read the guidelines carefully and check the submission page on  both publishers website before submitting.

I nearly didn't post this for two reasons: it's a circular, in spite of their effort to make it sound like I'm one of their favourite bloggers.. yeah right.  and they don't do GLBT titles. BUT I'm posting it anyway.

Hello, My name is Sarah Murray and I am the current Assistant to the New Business Development team here at Harlequin.

Harlequin has always had an interest in exploring the digital world and the opportunities it has to offer, and we are proud to announce that we have become the first publisher to release our entire front list in eBook format.

We at Harlequin are very familiar with your blog, and with the contribution that your thoughts and commentary has on readers, authors and industry professionals alike. As such, I thought this latest press release might be of interest to you.

Take care and enjoy your day,

Harlequin Becomes the First Major Publisher To Offer Entire Front List in eBook format 
Toronto, (September 19, 2007)  Harlequin Enterprises Limited, one of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction, announced today that they have become the first major publisher to make their complete front-list catalog available in the eBook format.  Harlequin releases more 120 titles per month, and their complete list can be found at www.harlequinebooks.com.

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