NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS, PLEASE.

Amore Moon's content and acquisitions editor, Bobette Ames Wright, is currently accepting Erotic Romance short story, novella, and novel submissions. Word count should be between 7,000 and 28,000 words for short stories. (**see note on word counts below) Novellas, 29,000 to 49,000, novels 50,000 to 80,000 words.  She is not looking for literary epics.

Your story may contain elements of mystery, thriller, or suspense, and it may be set in a fantasy world. Keep in mind that readers of erotic romance look for steamy sex scenes and emotionally charged characters. If your story contains any hateful or derogatory attacks on any one race of people, any one religion, any sexual orientation, any child abuse or bestiality, you can bet it'll be rejected. Bottom line, we want to have fun with your story. We want to be entertained as well as titillated. We're not looking for the next Pulitzer Prize winner but authors who will work with us to produce great entertainment.

Some points to keep in mind. Erotic Romance should be a story about a woman's quest for love with a beginning, a middle, and an end. This quest involves graphic but not gross descriptions of sexual contact and emotional responses. Her hero needs to be a man women readers would be attracted to. Both the woman and the man need not be perfect in body and morals and personality (no one is). The story has to be clearly written with the reader's emotions in mind. It must evoke a pleasant emotional and titillating response. Readers (who are mostly women) want to feel like anonymous voyeurs into another woman's sexual world with a man they'd trade their husbands and boyfriends for in a heartbeat.
 
GETTING STARTED: Send a query letter in the body of an email to submissions@twbpress.com . Type "Erotica Query" in the subject line. DO NOT ATTACH ANYTHING TO THIS EMAIL. We need to know: #1 How you heard about Amore Moon/TWB Press. #2 The title of your story. #3 The genre/subgenre and word count. #4 The log line for your story (one sentence). #5 A one paragraph blurb to hook us (like the teaser on the back cover might read). #6 Your publishing credits or writing achievements. #7 and where you are from: hometown, state or country, website URL if you have one, and/or your blog address and social media links.
 
If Bobette is interested in what you have to offer, she'll ask you submit your manuscript in standard manuscript format as a Word .doc or .docx file attached to an email to submissions@twbpress.com 
Best to all,

Terry Wright and Bobette Ames Wright
Editors

*worldwide refers to anywhere Amazon can ship paperbacks or wherever there is internet access to download e-books.

**Short stories under 7,000 words are, in my opinion, more suited for E-zine publishing. It's hard to justify selling a story that short (that quickly read) for 99 cents or $1.99. So we'd like to see works that start at 7K words.
Ideally, longer short stories are a better value to the reader. Though I realize 7K words plus stories are considered novelettes, we'd rather sell long short stories than short novelettes.
The main thing to consider is: how many words does it take to tell the story?