Send a professional cover email, a detailed synopsis (2 to 5 pages describing setting and main characters and outlining full plot, including resolution), the first three chapters and the final chapter of your manuscript via email as an attached file (doc or rtf format) to Submissions@ellorascave.com. Note: We are an e-publisher and all our work is done electronically; we do not accept paper submissions.

2012/2013 Theme Series calling for submissions

Pricked

Sling your best ink in stories revolving around tattoos, tattoo artists, a particularly significant tattoo, etc.

~ Length: 18K – 70K words

~ Deadlines for internal submissions: March 31, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Deadlines for external submissions: March 1, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Stories will release in July 2012

Hex Appeal

Charm readers with stories about wanton witches, lusty warlocks and sizzling spells!

~ Length: 18K – 70K words

~ Deadline for internal submissions: June 15, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Deadline for external submissions: May 15, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Stories will release in October 2012

Ball & Chain

And we do mean ball. ;) Whether newlyweds or longtime couples seeking some extra spice, sex is far from staid in these marriage beds.

~ Length: 18K – 70K words

~ Deadline for internal submissions: September 15, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Deadline for external submissions: August 15, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Stories will release in January/February 2013

On the Hunt

Delicious heroes (or heroines!) are on the chase in these stories based on bounty hunters!

~ Length: 18K – 70K words

~ Deadline for internal submissions: December 30, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Deadline for external submissions: November 30, 2012. Earlier is preferred.

~ Stories will release in May 2013

NEW Line launching January 11, 2012!  EC for Men

Stories written specifically for our male readers.

We are now accepting submissions (see submission instructions in the Author Information brochure).

~ 7,000 to 30,000 words

~ May contain relationships, but should focus more on the sex than the romance; Romantica is fine, Exotika is also encouraged

~ Realistic wording and dialogue for male characters (not the language women WISH men spoke); this extends to the male narrative

~ Written from male POV preferred

~ Should be aimed at male sexual fantasies (what men think of when they get off)
~ More of what men want or need from women: sex, love, acceptance, admiration, dirty talk; less of what they don't need (judgment, drama, expectation of anticipating woman's needs)

* Examples include, but are in no way limited to:

- Women taking the initiative during sex

- Female pursuit of the man

- Voyeurism of female/female sex (as well as F/M/F and F/F/M themes)

- Risky sexual situations or locations; a sense of the forbidden (e.g. the boss's mistress, the maid, the college professor, sex in public, etc.)

Remember that sex is largely visual and verbal for men (for women, it is mainly mental and emotional). Men polled preferred "real women" (natural as opposed to surgically enhanced) and wanted women to "do some of the work". Interpret that as you will!