Black Lace Anthologies
Themed Contemporary Erotic Short Fiction

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Black Lace Call for Submissions for
New Erotic Short Story Collections
 
As from February 2009 we will be publishing four new collections of erotic short stories. Following four collections of paranormal erotic novellas in 07/08, and the collection of Vampire Erotica in November 2008 (now titled Lust at First Bite: Vampire erotica by Black Lace), we are moving back to themed contemporary erotic short fiction.

Submission guidelines: your short story should be approximately 6,000 words long and not published anywhere in the world - websites excepted. Thematically, it should be written with the Black Lace guidelines in mind.

Obviously you will not be tied to having to provide detailed plot, numerous characters and enough varied types of sex to fill a novel, but the story should be about more than 'some people having sex'. For a good idea of the kind of stories we like, get hold of a Wicked Words compilation. We do not want historical settings and we can only accept stories written for the theme (which, this time around, offers a wide brief). The emphasis is on intensity, daring, imagination, tension, passion, pleasure and what's-at-stake for the main character (female POV please). Extreme perversion and the grotesque should be avoided. We want to position these as suitable for the general reader as well as erotica fans, and will try to get trade promos beyond simply the genre section of bookshops.

We pay a flat fee of £150 providing your story is close to 6000 words. Payment is made on publication.

- Liaisons (deadline for stories August 4th 2008). Publication May 09

- Misbehaviour (deadline for stories September 8th 2008). Publication August 09

- The Affair (deadline for stories November 3rd 2008). Publication November 09

Submissions are via ground mail (see address below), not email. Include the name of the anthology you are submitting to. For example, Seduction Anthology c/o Black Lace, Virgin Books, Thames Wharf Studios, Rainville Road, London W6 9HA.

Kind regards, and I can't wait to read your stories!

Adam Nevill
Editor - Fiction & Erotica

Virgin Books
Thames Wharf Studios
Rainville Road
London
W6 9HA

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