Monday, January 02, 2012

Call for Submissions: Sinister Seductions-Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly


“Sinister Seductions”
Release Date: October 2012

Sinister Seductions is an anthology of paranormal romance stories edited by Roxanne Rhoads .

This collection will consist of paranormal dark desires and supernaturally seductive tales of all things sinister and scary – think vampires, werewolves, demons, witches, and ghosts.

Please no angels or anything similar, those stories will be covered in the Seraphic Encounters antho.

The Anthology will be for the Paranormal Romance adult fan base, please no YA stories.

All romantic heat levels accepted from softly romantic to hot and steamy.

I’m looking for unique takes and edgy twists on popular paranormal characters- give me something new, dark, delicious, and sexy. I’m not looking for the common vampire meets human, bites and has sex with human and falls in love story- give me something I’m not expecting, something new and delightfullydark.


Stories containing the following will NOT be considered;

INCEST

BESTIALITY (SHIFTER OK)

RAPE/RAPE FOR TITILLATION

PEDOPHILIA

This anthology will pay NO royalties as a contract will state.

You will retain the rights to your story. CHBB will ask for exclusivity of the story for one year. Other rights we are requiring via contract are First Publishing Rights, the right to use the story for as long as there is demand for the book, the right to edit each story for missed or grammatical errors, and the right to use parts of the book and/or the author’s name for promotion. This would only be for the anthology and not any other books we may publish of yours. The author will receive two copies of the anthology, the PDF file, as well as a discount code for personal orders via Amazon.

To Submit:

Please send submissions to RoxanneRhoads@crushingheartsandblackbutterfly.com

Send your story as an attachment with the following guidelines:
Each story will consist of a minimum of 3,000 words no more than 10k. Each work must be submitted as a .doc or .docx file.

The font must be 12pt Times New Roman, 1.5 line spacing, .5 first line indents

Writers may submit more than one story but not more than one work will be included if the writer is selected.

CHBB is asking for fresh and ORIGINAL stories. Current and Previously published stories will NOT be accepted (including self-published works i.e. Smashwords, Amazon, and BN).

The deadline for submission is May 31, 2012. Please allow three to four weeks from the deadline before inquiring on your status. We will try to notify everyone promptly.

Be sure to write “Submission” in the subject line along with your title. In the body of the email, include the title of your story along with your real name, and pen name (if applicable) and your contact info.

We look forward to hearing from you and good luck!

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