Sunday, March 29, 2009

Greyhaus Expanding Submissions

All of the details will be posted on my website shortly, but I wanted to let you know I will be expanding my submission requests beginning on Monday. In a nutshell, here is what I will be looking for:

Contemporary - Real romances set in present day. I want the stories real and not manufactured. I want this just like our friends around us that fall in love. We don't need a psychotic past but something real.

Women's Fiction - We follow the female journey and learn what it takes to be a female. This should be powerful literature and I am not looking for a story that is simply lacking romance.

Historicals - These will be open but I will be very honest, I am not ACTIVELY looking. My historical writers are doing amazing and I do not believe in having competing authors out there.

Paranormals - No psychics, no vamps, no werewolves.

Romantic suspense - The romance must be the central theme. The characters should not have baggage and I want the story REAL. I want it believable. I want this border line thriller where we are really worried that the characters might not make it.

Category - This is the same that I had the last time. If you want to write for a category house you must:
a) Know the line you are targeting
b) Have at least one story in that line done
c) Have at least 2-3 more stories outlined and/or planned out for stories in that line.
Please also be aware that if I sign an author in a category line. We will ONLY submit to that house and if it is rejected, the contract will be over.

More details hopefully later today.

Scott

2 comments:

  1. Thank you for posting detailed information about your expectations. It DOES help!!!

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  2. Anonymous Two says amen to that. Thanks for not watching while writers take off on a year-long dead end. An agent who actually understands what "Professional help" might look like, as opposed to, "nah...I don't like it." Son of a gun.

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