You should receive a response, even if negative Witness Impulse ( mystery, suspense, thriller) – CURRENTLY CLOSED Upload manuscript (unsure if must be completed MS) Input query letter, brief synopsis, best scene or first 1,000 words Imprint that accepts unsolicited manuscripts: Avon Impulse (romance) – CURRENTLY CLOSED You should receive a response, even if rejected Forever Yours will only consider manuscripts that are complete at the time of submission. Your completed manuscript saved as a Word doc. In the body of the email: a query letter that includes the main hook of your story, the genre, the word count, a brief summary, and a little bit about youĪ detailed 3-5 page synopsis as an attachment Imprint that accepts unsolicited manuscripts: Forever/ Forever Yours (romance) Submit Your Manuscript to the Big 5 US Publishers Make sure to check back in a few months time to see if anything has changed! I have noticed while researching the Big 5 in the US that the options for submitting unsolicited manuscripts are incredibly limited – but it’s always a good time to be a romance writer! Citizens will need to submit their manuscripts to their own country’s equivalent Publishing House.
I will updating this list regularly for you all and stashing it permanently under my ‘ Resources – Traditional Publishing‘ page.įor those of you who don’t know, the Big 5 US publishers are represented in other countries too, which means Non-U.S. I’ve also added two bonus publishers at the end for both US and Non-U.S Citizens.
The shop, America’s only bookshop dedicated entirely to romance novels, said that six of its 10 bestselling titles from 2017 were by authors of colour.Hi Everyone! Here’s a recently updated list of the Big 5 US Publishing Houses, their submission requirements for unsolicited manuscripts and links to submission details. It follows Harlequin’s decision last year to close its African American romance imprint Kimani, citing at the time “changes in the retail landscape and reader preferences”, and “declining support from retailers”īut The Ripped Bodice’s owners said that their own figures give the lie to the “main argument” publishers give for not publishing authors of colour: “that the sales are not strong enough”. But in the same week as the report, S&S announced that the imprint will close, citing “changing consumer reading habits and the continual evolution of the marketplace”.
At Riptide, 4.8% of its books were by authors of colour, slightly up from 2016 in total, 80% of publishers surveyed had fewer than 10% of their books written by people of colour.īy far, the best-performing publisher in the report was Simon & Schuster’s imprint Crimson, with 29.3% of titles by authors of colour. Riptide was one of the publishers included in the Ripped Bodice’s study, which analysed 3,762 books to identify how many were by authors of colour. The report revealed that for every 100 books published by the leading romance press in 2017, only 6.2 were written by people of colour, down from 7.8 in 2016. “Clearly there is plenty of room to pull up more chairs as long as the people sitting in those chairs are white,” wrote the report’s authors, Bea and Leah Koch, who run the romance bookstore The Ripped Bodice, in Culver City, Los Angeles. It’s time for us to take a good, hard look at ourselves and foster new, diverse voices to help us see what we’ve missed in the past,” said the statement from co-owners Rachel Haimowitz and Tal Valante.īut the controversy arrives as a report into diversity in the genre found that fewer books by authors of colour were published in 2017 compared to the previous year, despite an increase in the numbers of books published overall. “We need to prune the aspects of our company, our attitudes, and our message that are rotten. It has closed its doors to unsolicited submissions, and returned rights to angry authors “who have sought to dissolve relationships with us”. Riptide issued a subsequent statement in which it acknowledged that “apologies are not enough”, and that “the anger that has been directed toward us in the past days is justified”.
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As Riptide authors came forward to ask for their books to be pulled from the publisher’s list in the wake of McCade’s revelations, the publisher issued a statement saying it had accepted Lyons’s resignation, describing her behaviour as “unacceptable” and said that it did not condone Lyons’s comments about people of colour on covers.īut the uproar continued to grow, as authors and readers shared Riptide’s previous missteps: in 2016, it apologised after one of its novels featured a black character who was referred to as “Dark Chocolate Love Monkey” earlier, it also apologised for a website for a series set in a world where slavery remained legal, which included fake ads for buying and recruiting slaves.
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