Market News for Week of August 31, 2009

This week I begin my look at the various Publisher Spotlights from the Romance Writers of America conference in Washington DC. Stay tuned each week for a new Spotlight.
First up –Avon books.
The Spotlight on Avon was presented by Executive Editor Erica Tsang, Editorial Assistant Amanda Bergeron , Assistant Editor Esi Sogah, Editor May Chen and [...]

News Round Up – 6.11.09

Ebooks sales are up, up, up according to Fiction Matters.
Dorchester Publishing is now accepting submissions via email. Guidelines:
http://www.dorchesterpub.com/Dorch/SubmissionGuidlines.cfm
Other publishers accepting email submissions include:

Avon: http://www.harpercollins.com/imprints/avon/SubmissionGuidelines.aspx
Spice Briefs: http://eharlequin.com/articlepage.html?articleId=1264&chapter=0
Nocturne Bites: http://eharlequin.com/articlepage.html?articleId=1336&chapter=0
Query only to Kensington Books:
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=14298
Most/if not all ebook publishers

RWA President Diane Pershing has some members questioning whether or not they should continue their [...]

Solutions to Publishing Problems

Over the last few weeks several messages have popped up in my RSS reader (like this, and this, and this) concerning the tightening of the publishing industry. It was bound to happen. Things are tightening up all over the place.
I’m not one who likes to harp on problems. It doesn’t do anyone any good, certainly [...]

Issues at New Concepts Publishing?

In the effort to keep writers informed we occasionally link to sites and blog posts that raise issues we feel writers should be aware of. Today’s link is in reference to the publisher New Concepts.

Market News – Feb 22

I have some more details about Harlequin Mills & Boon’s Black Star Crime
mystery series. HM&B are working with a book packager, Working Partners
(_http://www.workingpartnersltd.co.uk/pages/writers.html_
(www.workingpartnersltd.co.uk/pages/writers.html) ) who will be acquiring all the content and
editing the books for the imprint. Queries about adult fiction (which I assume
includes Black Star) should be directed to Charles Nettleton:
_charlesn@workingpartnersltd.co.uk_ (mailto:charlesn@workingpartnersltd.co.uk)
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Silhouette Nocturne, a [...]

Market News January 27, 2008

Hello, everyone. I’m back from a brief vacation with more market news to
share with you all.Agent Nathan Bransford (_http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/) _
(nathanbransford.blogspot.com/) ) with the Curtis Brown Literary Agency is
holding a Surprisingly Essential First Page Challenge on his blog at
_http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/2008/01/surprisingly-essential-first-page.html_
(nathanbransford.blogspot.com/2008/01/surprisingly-essential-first-page.html)
or _http://tinyurl.com/2mrjs9_ (tinyurl.com/2mrjs9) Enter the first
page of your novel — no more than 500 words. The winner gets [...]

Charity Anthology: Unconditional Love (to benefit the Rolling Dog Ranch)

Tease Publishing is putting together 2 charity anthologies for the
Rolling Dog Ranch (http://www.rollingdogranch.org
<http://www.rollingdogranch.org/> ),
A non-profit organization that takes in and cares for animals with
special needs. While no animal is turned away at RDR, their indigenous
population is mainly dogs, cats and horses, all with severe handicaps
such as neurological issues, Spinal problems, missing limbs, blindness,
deafness and other [...]

Market News: Jan 13, 2008

Welcome everyone. I’m looking at several different publishers this week, as well as sharing other information.   Parker Publishing (http://www.parker-publishing.com) is actively seeking submissions of African-American romance and erotic romance. Parker publishes mainstream fiction under its NOLA imprint. Parker’s Isis imprint features paranormal and speculative fiction. Romance is published under the Noire Allure imprint.  Noire Passion [...]