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Ellora's Cave

Ellora’s Cave is THE place for erotic romances. Our site receives over 60,000 hits daily and averages sales of over 70,000 e-books per month. Our readership continues to grow by the thousands. Ellora’s Cave is ALWAYS open to new submissions of erotic romances.

We are a publisher of electronic books (although most of our titles are also issued in print). We do almost all our work electronically; we communicate via e-mail. Editors and authors exchange electronic files of the manuscript at all stages. No paper submissions, no paper edits, no paper galleys.

Ellora’s Cave Romantica® (erotic romances) must be both erotic and romantic.

~ The sexual relationship must be integral to and an important element of the storyline and the character development. Sex scenes should contribute to furthering the plot or affecting the development of the romantic relationship or the growth of the characters.

~ The story must include abundant and explicit sex and sexual tension, starting early and continuing throughout. Sex scenes must be described in graphic detail and explicit wording, not delicate euphemisms or purple prose.

~ The story must meet the definition of a romance novel: the primary focus must be on the development of a romantic relationship, and there must be an emotionally satisfying committed ending for the main characters.

We also publish Exotika™, our line of quality erotica for women. These stories focus on a woman’s sexual journey or adventures. Although they may contain a romance, they do not have that as the primary focus, the relationship does not need to be monogamous or end with commitment.

In 2010, Ellora's Cave launched two new Lines (genres) of Romantica erotic romance. These lines are open for submission now, to both existing EC authors and new authors. General descriptions of the two new lines are:

GEN-EDGE
Audience: 18- to 25-year-old modern women who would enjoy reading sexually explicit erotic romance stories about heroines with whom they can identify.

Length: Any of our length categories (10K to about 125K)

Tone and Style: The books will have a strong narrative voice. Dialogue and narrative will be very reflective of the target audiences world.

Heroines: Must be in the 18-25 range, with behavior and attitude to match. The heroine should reflect the lifestyles and values of today's modern young woman. These will not be like our existing stories that happen to have a heroine in that age range—the style will be very different.

Hero: The hero doesn't have to fit into the same age range. He may indeed be of age similar to the heroine, part of her peer group. But we would also accept stories of young women involved with older men.

In addition to being open to submissions from existing EC authors, we are looking to recruit new, authors to write for this line, who have an authentic voice for this age range.
 
BRANDED
Audience: This line is for women of any age who would, or perhaps already do, enjoy EC Romantica, but who have a personal belief that sex should not occur before or outside of marriage.

Length: Any of our length categories (10K to about 125K)

Setting: Any setting, but the culture must involve a legal and binding commitment ceremony between the two people that includes the intent of permanence (til death do us part) and monogamy.

Sexual Content:  These are as erotic as all of our other books—but the actual sex does not occur until after marriage. The stories should be the same graphic level of sexual description as ECs existing lines.

These are not religious or inspirational stories. The decision to wait for sex is a personal choice of the characters, based on a variety of reasons, and should in no way imply a judgment that other people are wrong or "bad" for making different choices.

Detailed guidelines and submission information is at:
www.jasminejade.com/t-writerscircle.aspx

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