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Black Heart Magazine is currently accepting both fictional and non-fictional works for publication. Please read the descriptions below and send one submission or query at a time to the appropriate category.

EROTICA (FICTION)

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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/

1. Contest is open to all college students—no age limit. Employees of Playboy and their families, its agents and affiliates are not eligible.
2. To enter, submit your typed, double-spaced manuscript of 25 pages or fewer with a 3”x5” card listing name, age, college affiliation, permanent home address and phone number to Playboy College Fiction Contest, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019. All entries must be previously unpublished original works of fiction and must be postmarked between September 1, 2008 and February 15, 2009.
3. Decisions of the judges are final. Playboy reserves the right to withhold prizes if no submitted entries meet its usual standard of publication.
4. Winners will be notified by mail and may be obligated to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility within 30 days of notification. By acceptance of their prizes, winners consent to the use of their names, photographs and other likenesses for purposes of advertising, trade and promotion on behalf of Playboy without further compensation to the winners, unless prohibited by law.
5. Playboy reserves the right to edit the first-prizewinning story for publication.
6. Playboy reserves the right to publish winning entries in U.S. and foreign editions of Playboy and to reprint, republish or incorporate them in any electronic or print English-language or foreign-edition anthologies or compilations of Playboy material without further compensation to the winners.
7. Void where prohibited by law.
8. All manuscripts become the property of Playboy and will not be returned.
9. Taxes on prizes are the responsibility of the winners. For a list of the winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Playboy College Fiction Contest, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10019.

Call from Cecelia Tan:

I'm reading for a new ebook of vampire-themed erotica for Ravenous Romance.
Deadline February 1, 2009. You may submit anytime before then, but note some acceptances won't be made until close to the deadline because I may want to consider multiple stories at a time before making individual determinations.

What I want in stories, in short:
Vampires
Heterosexual main pairings (gay & bi side characters ok, threesomes ok)
Love or a romantic element integral to the story
3,500 to 10,000 words

In detail:
So, vampires, first and foremost. (Not werewolves, not ghosts, etc.. although your definition of a vampire and how the mythos works can be your own. There are plenty of variations on the myth out there already between Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Charlaine Harris alone. You may get away with an incubus or other demon/spirit who is vampire-like.) Love or romance must also be present in the story.

NOTE: This is NOT a horror anthology. This is an erotica anthology being published by a romance publisher.

I'd like to see the absolute allure of the danger in the vampire, and that means blood is OK, and killing is OK in the story, but not the main characters, please. (We're not here to fetishize snuff porn. No.) When it comes to a love story, established relationships are always a nice twist instead of starting with two strangers. Keep the focus on the erotic fire and the emotional kick. Plotty and intricate is good. I know it's hard to do something "new" with vampires, but do try. Think seduction, think how a bite is akin to penetration, think how the Victorians feared the power of lust as a supernatural force (but our readers don't). Period pieces are welcome. We can have the vampire as object of lust and fascination, and the vampire's lust and fascination for the mortal, the living. Play off that tension.

What I do NOT want: Any story of the following plot: Two people meet, they have, sex, one of them turns out to be a vampire! No! Don't do it! Also don't be tempted to change this plot to: they BOTH turn out to be vampires! NOR, one of them turns out to be a vampire hunter or killer! No. Do Not. Also do not think that your story has to be set in a goth bar or in New Orleans. Generally speaking some pain and suffering are good plot elements but No misogyny, rape, or  necrophilia! If we are creeped out by your story it is probably horror and not erotica! Please don't try to justify it by telling me vampires are supposed to be horrifying monsters—just send your story to SOMEONE ELSE.

Sex-positive, woman-positive please. And remember, the main pairing in the story needs to be heterosexual. They can both be bi and have additional same-sex lovers if you like, but the main pair, het. For those of you who know me, I know that seems like an odd restriction. But please honor it.

To submit, please send an attached document to the Gmail address: ctan.editor. Be sure Your Name, Address, and Email appear as PART OF your attached document (not only in your email). Also please include a BIO suitable for publication with the story. WORD COUNT should also be on your document.

Terms are Ravenous Romance's standard terms, which are for $1 per 250 words in advance against the royalties on ebook sales (and other non-exclusive subsidiary rights) for a period of three years. Royalties are 38% on ebooks and 15% on audiobook. If they sell additional subsidiary rights, additional payments will follow. RR editor Lori Perkins has a nice explanation of the rights here: http://ravenousromance.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-short-story-rights-and-contracts.html

If you'd like a look at what kind of vampire stories I've bought in the past, the Blue Moon Books editions of "Erotica Vampirica" and "Blood Surrender" are both floating around for cheap on Amazon. But remember those books were not for a romance publisher, so the "love story" angle was not being sought then.

Cecilia Tan
Freelance Editor
Mobile: 617-290-9043
Twitter: ceciliatan
AIM: pinstripepen
Submissions Email: ctan.editor at gmail dot com

P.S. Suggestions for a title are welcome. Love Bites, Blood Lust, True Blood, Blood Kiss... they've all been USED already.