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Mini-Anthology eBooks
Editor: Barbara Cardy
Publisher: Constable & Robinson, UK
Deadline: Filling up as submissions are received
Payment: Advance of between £25 and £50 + Royalties

Guidelines:

Of the 36 mini-anthology eBooks I have been putting together for publisher Constable & Robinson, the straight ones are completely filled, but I have 4 Lesbian ones and 8 Gay ones left to produce.

Each mini-anthology of 10,000 words will include two, three or four stories:  That could be four stories of 2,500 words, three stories of 3,300 words or two stories of 5,000 words.  Please keep as close to those word counts as you possibly can as there is a strict budget for each eBook.  

This series is the 'confessions' series, so all submissions must be written in the first person.  There would be less dialogue in these confessions than in a normal story.  We need the reader to believe that, although outrageous, they may - just possibly - have happened.  Tell us a little bit about the central character within the story so the reader gets involved – what were their thoughts when 'X' was happening?  I don't want a minute by minute sex description, but of course it needs to be very erotic and there also needs to be a good tale.  Unusual scenarios and settings will attract my attention.  Humour is welcome too.  There must be at least two sex scenes in the 5,000 word stories.  Twosomes, threesomes, groups, spanking, BDSM, adult babies, slaves, fetish, etc are all welcome subjects.  Push the boat out with ideas.  I would like more really kinky stuff for this new series.  Unpublished works only please.

Each story must be attached in a separate email so I can divide them between email folders.  Always send as a Word attachment and not pasted into the body of an email.  It would be really useful if you put the genre and story title in the email's subject box too – for example: 'Lesbian confession – Caught in a Trap'.

Formatting:

Please use Times 12 and no text boxes / headers / footers / page numbers or other special formatting etc. as they are a bugger to get rid of!  You don’t need to worry about double-spacing between lines as I will only have to put it back into single spacing before I print it out.  In fact, a 2,500 word story should easily fit on 4 sheets of A4 paper – it doesn't need to look pretty.  All speech needs to be in double quotation marks.  © 2012 will be put against the story.  I don't need your bio when you submit stories and both published and unpublished writers are equally welcomed. 

Right at the top of the first page of your story, you must insert the following information.  I need this for our contract together and Constable & Robinson need the information to send you your royalty cheque.

Category: (i.e. Straight, Lesbian, Gay)
Word count:
Legal name:
Address (including postcode and country):
Email address:
Story Blurb (click on one of our Erotica eBook images on our website to see examples)
Story Title:
The name of the character you are writing as:*

Then, your story should begin here…

* The intention for the confessions series is for them to read as true accounts.  So what I would like to see here is something like 'Chris, Brighton' or 'Sarah, New York' for example.  If you are sending multiple submissions, you need to have a new name and a new town/city against each story.  Traditional first names work best.

Payment:

The Advance:  £25 for each 2,500 word story, £33 for a 3,300 words story and £50 for a 5,000 word story.  Again, please keep as close to these word counts as possible as the budget is fixed. 

The Royalties: On sales of the Mini-Anthology in eBook, audio or combined eBook/audio format: a pro rata share of 25% of net receipts. On sales of the Individual Story in eBook, audio or combined eBook/audio format: 40% of net receipts.

Contract:

Please read the Contract Document before you send me your work.  You will find it at www.writerotica.co.uk  The terms are very generous and include conventional printing and other royalty-paying opportunities.  (Three of the first eBooks are already available as audio books.)

I will need you to sign up for all the publishing options.  I don't want to get into the fiddly business of sorting through what we can and can't do with particular stories because that's when mistakes will inevitably get made.

I very much look forward to receiving and reading your stories.  Please email them to me at barbara@writerotica.co.uk

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