Market News - January 2006by Julie Moffett Reprinted with the permission of Washington Romance Writers and Julie Moffett. NYT best-selling author, Janet Evanovich, in cooperation with USA Today best-selling author Leanne Banks have sold a humorous, sexy series featuring four friends in Boston to Jennifer Enderlin at St. Martin's for four books; Kaitlyn Dunnett sold her mystery novel, KILT DEAD, featuring a professional Scottish dancer who returns to her roots following a career-ending injury only to find herself suspected of murder, to John Scognamiglio at Kensington in a pre-empt, for a three-book deal; Essence best-seller author Trisha R. Thomas sold her book, NAPPILY MARRIED, to Monique Patterson at St. Martin's for publication in winter 2007 in a two-book deal; author Megan Crane sold her book, WHY CAN'T WE BE FRIENDS?, to Karen Kosztolnyik at Warner for the 5 Spot imprint in a two-book deal; and Lori Copeland sold two untitled Christmas novellas, the first to be released in fall 2007, to Karen Ball at Zondervan in a very nice deal. (Publisher’s Weekly/11-22-05) Connie Lane sold her book, KNIT TWO TOGETHER, a middle-aged coming-of-age story, in which a mother and daughter are bound together by complicated ties of love and pain following the inheritance of a knitting shop to Jennifer Green at Next; and Elizabeth Hoyt sold her novel, THE RAVEN PRINCE, a tale of a widow, an Earl, and a scandalous brothel in Georgian London to Devi Pillai at Warner in a two-book deal. (Publisher’s Weekly/12-6-05) Ellora’s Cave is actively seeking full-length manuscripts for erotic romance novels. Manuscript submissions require a detailed full-story synopsis, the first three chapters and the final chapter of your manuscript VIA E-MAIL as attached files (in doc or rtf format). As they are an e-publisher, they DO NOT accept paper submissions. They do not have a required format; please just use a common serif font, reasonable page margins, and single or 1.5 line spacing. They are looking for stories of 50,000 words or more. They do not accept short story submissions except from authors who already have a full-length novel accepted by us. In regards to previously published authors: they will only publish your out-of-print books if you hold exclusive rights. The royalty rate is 37.5% of Gross (that's the cover price) for single author titles in e-book format. All manuscripts must contain sexual content and language that is explicit and leaves nothing to the imagination. For more information, check out Ellora’s Cave’s online submission guidelines at: www.ellorascave.com/writing.asp And speaking of Ellora’s Cave . . . they are currently in the process of expanding their publishing content. You may now submit proposals (known as pre-submissions) for their upcoming Non-Romantic Erotica line, and a straight Erotica site. And even bigger news for the publisher is that they are also accepting mainstream titles for their upcoming Fiction website.
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