We are also building a YA GLBT line, which is one of our primary focuses as we head into the summer.
Oh, I'm glad to hear this since that's what I want to read. <3
We are also building a YA GLBT line, which is one of our primary focuses as we head into the summer.
I may have missed the December update, but I noticed the submission calls are currently:Since this issue isn't until June of 2012, we haven't hammered out all the details just yet. As soon as we reconcile our payment scale against the standards for manga, we'll adjust our submission guidelines for that one issue. My idea was to offer the equivalent of short stories from manga artists and to try to bridge the gap between standard sf/f readers and the whole manga scene. At the moment, that is our intention. Once we get through the December horror that is our release schedule, we'll specify in greater detail what we're looking for and what remuneration we're offering for those stories.
Has the comic/manga issue been dropped or delayed? If still slated for June 2012, artists need ample time to work on submissions unless Penumbra plans to accept previously published works.August Issue - Dreams
CALL ENDS MARCH 30, 2012
September Issue -- Native American Folklore
CALL ENDS APRIL 30, 2012
October, 2012 -- Edgar Allan Poe
CALL BEGINS ON APRIL 1, 2012.
November, 2012 – Exploration
CALL BEGINS ON MAY 1, 2012.
December, 2012—Utopia
CALL BEGINS ON JUNE 1, 2012
Just received a full request on a women's fiction submission (10 days from submission to request).
Let the waiting begin.
I sent a requested full to Musa this afternoon for the erotic romance imprint. I initially queried 4 days ago, for those updating their spreadsheets.
(HA! I'm a spreadsheet junkie who has paranoid geek down to a science, so I am poking fun at all of us there)
We are currently building those imprints. Calliope is our romance imprint; Erato is GLBT. I'm in the process of promoting an editor to run the Calliope imprint and we already have a fantastic head editor at Erato. As a matter of fact, our Orpheus GLBT writing contest just closed to entries and is in judging right now. Since our launch in October, we have 13 m/f erotic titles,19 straight romance titles, and 16 GLBT titles with multiple titles for each imprint on our forthcoming release schedule. We are also building a YA GLBT line, which is one of our primary focuses as we head into the summer. You can browse through our currently released titles at our website and take a look at the authors who have published with us in our romance imprints.
But the answer is--YES. We have thriving romance imprints, and those imprints are actively evaluating submissions.
I'm a computer skill-lacking nerd. I use an outline set up in MS Word. LOL
I (probably foolishly) have a good feeling about my full for a short story, The Knight's Redemption.
As someone who doesn't know anything about Romance...and has a tangent for nonsensical ideas— Non-romance Erotica? LOL
Lol, yeah, the terminology can be confusing...
Erotica can be romantic, but if it doesn't have a happy ever after or a happy for now that hints at HEA, it's not "a romance."
So an erotic romance is a romance with explicit sex and plenty of it, whereas erotica is a story with explicit sex and plenty of it that is not necessarily a romance.
What's the word count for a short story with Musa Publishing?
...--we want to publish shorts above 5K and below 15k for our short story lines.
Pretty much that.
Erotica -- It doesn't have to have a Happily Ever After or a Happy For Now type of ending. It can end probably almost any way you chose.
Erotica Romance -- It has to have some type of happy ending, meaning the Hero and Heroine have to end up together to some degree.
Oh okay. That's funny, because I need the HEA in romantic movies, but in books it doesn't seem as big of a deal. Probably since I've never read a romance novel, even though my cousin writes them! Lol.
It's the one absolutely crucial convention to a romance novel/novella. Well, now that I've said that, some other crucial conventions will emerge, like, you know, characters. But you know what I mean.
That's because we have not begun to take books to print yet. We've only been open for six months and nine days, and will not initiate a print schedule until the four directors are agreed that print is worth the financial risk and we have the appropriate distribution and organization in place.
Ah, OK. That's fair enough. Thanks.
Obviously it's your long term aim, so.