Samhain open call - Angels & Demons

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LorelieBrown

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Reposted from Angela James's blog, with permission:

Angels for whom heaven is not enough. Demons searching for redemption in a mortal’s arms. Seraphim, nephilim, heaven’s warriors or creatures from the pits of hell—love could be waiting for them all.

Samhain Publishing invites you to step into the light or embrace the forces of darkness with stories of angels and demons from any mythology. Will your angels be wicked and your demons be wanton? Only you can decide on which side of heaven or hell they’ll fall.

Samhain Publishing is seeking submissions for their Spring 2010 demons and angels themed anthology. Stories can be of any genre or heat level, and submissions are open to M/F, M/M, or multiples thereof, but all submissions must feature either an angel or demon theme (or both!) as integral to the story. Submissions should be 20,000 to 30,000 words in length.

Submissions are open to all authors previously published with Samhain as well as authors aspiring to publish with Samhain. Submissions must be new material, previously published material will not be considered. Additionally, manuscripts previously submitted, whether individually or for past anthologies, will not be considered either. Please be aware that manuscripts submitted to this anthology cannot be resubmitted at a later date unless by invitation from an editor. However, submissions with merit for possible publication at Samhain are and will be passed to interested Samhain editors even if not chosen for the angels and demons anthology.
Chosen manuscripts will be published as separate ebooks under their individual titles in Spring 2010 but will be combined as one print title for Winter 2010 print release.

To submit a manuscript for consideration please include the full manuscript (of 20,000 to 30,000 words) with a comprehensive 2-3 page synopsis in addition to a letter of introduction/query letter which details the genre, heat level and story length. Full manuscripts are required.

As well, when you send your manuscript, please be sure to use the naming convention Title_AngelsDemons_MS and Title_AngelsDemons_Synopsis. This will ensure that your submission doesn’t get missed in the many submissions we receive, and makes it easy for me to find in my ebook reader.

Submissions are open until November 1st and final decision will be made by November 16th.

Submissions and questions can be directed to Angela James at [email protected] Please put Angels and Demons Anthology in the subject line.

**permission to forward granted**
 

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Thanks for posting this, Lorelie! Samhain's anthologies always look so much fun.
 

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Thanks for the information. I keep checking their website to see when they're going to post a new anthology open call, but they've just had the space opera one for a while now. Though I imagine that'll be changing soon.

Ever since I didn't even try writing something for the last shapeshifter anthology (even though I love writing about shapeshifters), I've been wanting to write a story for one of these anthologies just to challenge myself. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to come up with anything for the space opera one. Plus, I'm working on a novel that I really want to finish so I can start submitting it to agents.

But I'm really looking forward to this one since I already have an angel and a demon love story that I've been playing with. And hopefully this will give me some extra motivation to finish my revisions so I can get started on this submission. I can't wait.

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Oooh, this is exciting. I just submitted a "short" to Harlequin's paranormal e-books. Maybe I'll rework it for this in case HQ rejects it. I've been playing around with the angel/demon theme for a while. Very exciting, thanks.
 
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