Submission Guidelines

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General Submission Guidelines

If you believe love is beautiful thing then Pink Petal Books wants to hear from you!

Pink Petal Books publishes romance novels. We publish all sub-genres (including BBW, I/R, paranormal, M/M, historical, contemporary, fantasy, suspense, all of it!) and all heat levels (from sweet to super-hot erotic). We believe no matter what form it takes that love is beautiful thing and we want our authors to embody this philosophy in their writing.

Our books focus primarily on the relationship between the characters (regardless of gender or number) and each story is unique to the characters and the journey they make to finding love and happiness.

We understand that as an author you have many choices when it comes to publishers. Here’s why you should publish with Pink Petal Books:

• We pay 40% royalties on the cover price. For sales through our own suite of websites, we do not deduct anything from the sales price or the royalties. We pay on gross. 
• for sales through third party vendors, we pay 40% of what the publisher receives from the vendor.
• All books which meet sales goals (email for more details) and are over 50,000 words will go into print. Shorter works by the same author which meet sales goals may be combined into print versions.
• We have a multi-layered print plan.
• We pay royalty of 10% on cover price for print books regardless of sales outlet.
• Our contract terms are simple and easy to understand. We only ask for the rights that we’re going to use, and yes, we will negotiate on contract terms.

What do we want?

Pink Petal Books seeks romance novels from 25,000-100,000 words in all sub-genres and with all heat levels. Our books focus on the romance, so give us stories about characters who we want to fall in love. Sexual content should be appropriate to the story and the characters. We will never ask you to add more sex for the sake of adding sex.

We do not want stories that contain bestiality, necrophilia, incest (including twincest), underage characters, bodily fluids used as sexual titillation (blood in the case of vampires can be considered an exception, but it must fit in with the story. No gore please.), or rape.

To have your work considered for publication please email a cover letter, synopsis, and first three chapters to submissions(a)jupitergardens.com

Please only submit/query for complete works. We do welcome previously published works. No simultaneous/multiple submissions please. If you have any questions, please use the email address or the Contact Us form on this website.

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NOTE: It is not a requirement for authors to use our hosting service. We are simply offering this as one more way to help our authors with their marketing presence by creating an economical way to have a professional web presence.

New Line: In the Saddle

Horses have had a long history in our country from the first settlers to the professional athletes of. Give us stories about equestrians of all types. We’re looking for romances of all heat levels (from sweet to erotic romances), and all sub-genres from paranormal horse shifters to contemporaries, and westerns. Give us things we haven’t seen before (maybe a story involving a mounted police officer), and show us all sizes, styles, and orientations of love.

Our regular submission guidelines apply, with story lengths beginning at 25K and going up to 100K. We pay ebook royalty rate of 40% on sales directly from us, and we pay 40% of money received from third-party vendors. We believe in putting our books out through other vendors like Kindle or All Romance eBooks, and all books which meet modest sales goals and our length requirement of 50K will go into print.

How to submit: Please send the first three chapters, a synopsis and a cover letter to submissions(a)jupitergardens.com and indicate that your submission is for our "In the Saddle" line.

New Line: Playtime

Diamonds aren’t the only things that are a girl’s best friend. Sometimes battery operated boyfriends, ticklers, and handcuffs rank highly on the list, too. This series of novellas explores items found in a woman’s “toy box.” The only rules: the story has to feature the item prominently (including being used in the story) and it has to be a romance. Other than that, let your fantasies out to play!

Novellas selected for this line must be erotic romances between 15,000 and 25,000 words. These stories can be from any romantic genre so long as they contain the toy prominently in the story. Stories will be sold as stand-alone ebooks and then will be packaged into a print volume. 

We pay ebook royalty rate of 40% on sales directly from us, and we pay 40% of money received from third-party vendors. We believe in putting our books out through other vendors like Kindle or All Romance eBooks, and all books which meet modest sales goals and our length requirement of 50K will go into print.

How to submit: Please send the first three chapters, a synopsis and a cover letter to submissions(a)jupitergardens.com and indicate that your submission is for our "In the Saddle" line.

The Playtime line replaces our Tales from the Toybox anthologies. Stories will be released as they are received, and when we have three or four with similiar toys and/or themes, then they will be packaged into print books.

An example of toys to include in the stories can be vibrators, edibles, paddles and crops, dildos, ticklers, or other intimate gear.