Market News for the week of March 26, 2006

[vicki]

Premium Press America, a Nashville-based publisher with a 20-year history of success with non-fiction titles is branching out into romance and mystery fiction. New titles are already available in CVS and Eckerd Drug stores. The books are also available through Baker and Taylor and other wholesalers. PPA has carved out a market niche with nonfiction through specialty marketing agreements with stores such as Hallmark, CVS and Eckerd drugs, as well as corporate sales. They also have a strong oversees marketing division. They hope to publish 40 mystery and fiction titles per year, with five titles released every other month.

Senior Editor Lanier Brandau is looking for both steamy and heartfelt romance and all types of mysteries. Their first group of releases includes an erotic Regency-set romance, a contemporary romantic suspense, the first in a historical series, a steamy medical romance, and a women's fiction novel. In an interview with Music City Romance Writers, Ms. Brandau said "Most of our titles are sold in family stores; however, we like for our titles to push the envelope without causing an anti-provocative riot. We like our titles to have a great story as well as intimate relations." She will consider manuscripts between 60,000 and 100,000 words, with 85,000 - 90,000 being the preferred word count. PPA works with both agented and unagented authors. You may query and send a synopsis to ppawriters@premiumpressamerica.com or request writer's guidelines at this same address. The website http://www.premiumpressamerica.com is currently under construction, expected to debut soon.


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Draumr Books (http://www.draumrpublishing.com) is looking for submissions for its Dangerous Curves imprint. Books should feature a big beautiful woman heroine and should be 45,000 words and up. "DC books can be in any romance subgenre, including but not limited to contemporary, historical, paranormal, mystery, adventure, suspense/thriller, horror, sci-fi, anthology, chick lit, romantica, erotica, lesbian romances, etc." No pornography. Guidelines are available at http://www.draumrpublishing.com/submissions.php

Draumr Books also publishes science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, adventure, suspense/thriller, and all kinds of romance. Submissions may be made electronically and unagented submissions are welcome. Refer to the guidelines on the website for more information. Also check out the FAQ section. Draumr publishes both ebooks and trade paper.

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Cindi Myers
Bootcamp, Signature Collection (With Leslie Kelly and Heather MacAllister) March 2006
No Regrets, Harlequin Blaze, March 2006
The Birdman's Daughter, Next, April 2006
www.CindiMyers.com