Comments on: Now acquiring: Contemporary crack at Carina Press http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/ Sun, 19 May 2013 21:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Angela James http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16607 Angela James Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:22:24 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16607 Our minimum word count is 15,000 but the shorter the word count, the harder the sell, because it’s harder to have a well-developed plot, characters and romance at that length.

]]> By: lisa http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16602 lisa Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:44:18 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16602 Do you have a preferred word count? If it’s just for the web can it be 15,000?

]]> By: Angela James http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16434 Angela James Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:23:39 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16434 Hi Janet,

You can submit the first book and its synopsis. Also include a document with a 2-3 pargraph description of each book. That will give me a look at book one, plus an understanding of how you see the series playing out (ahh, no pun intended, lol). If for some reason book one doesn’t work out for us, we may still want to see books 2, or books 3 and 4.

Looking forward to seeing your submission!

]]> By: Janet Batchelder http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16433 Janet Batchelder Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:43:53 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16433 Angela,
I’ve been holding onto a series of three books. They’re contemporary baseball romances. I have only submitted them to contests. The first one won third place in the Golden Pen contest two years ago. But then the editor didn’t like the premise saying it was implausible. So I shelved them even though many of the readers in the contests found them fast-paced and enjoyable. Maybe they fit the “contemporary crack” genre you described above.
My problem is I have three complete manuscripts with a fourth still in my head. Would you want me to submit all of them together or one at a time?
Thanks for your advice.
Janet

]]> By: Angela James http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16404 Angela James Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:34:04 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16404 Cristiane, you can send the book with no cover (we don’t use author-submitted covers). If you have plans for new work, please let us know what that work is and you can attach a series outline, if you’d like. With self-published books, we rarely consider just the previously self-pubbed work but are also going to want to hear about the author’s plans for publishing new work with us.

]]> By: Cristiane Serruya http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16395 Cristiane Serruya Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:11:11 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16395 Hello Angela,
I’m very excited to send you my manuscript.
My ‘bodice ripper’ as Kirkus Reviews called ‘TRUST: A New Beginning’ is the first installment of a trilogy and is already self-published by CreateSpace, selling on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, etc, in ebook and paperback.
The 2nd is under editing and the 3rd installment is on its way to be finished. They have already their covers too.
So, my doubts are: When I send you the manuscript, in RTF file, do I have to send the cover too? If so, in what file?
Should I send only the first installment for evaluation? Or do you need the sequels too?
Cris

]]> By: Angela James http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16088 Angela James Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:37:30 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16088 It doesn’t, if we know there’s a planned story ARC over those books, so you’d want to include the proposal for the second book (and be prepared to also contract that one, lol)

]]> By: Amarinda Jones http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16085 Amarinda Jones Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:47:03 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16085 G’day…does it have to have a HEA if it spins off into the next story?

]]> By: Myra J Hale http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16060 Myra J Hale Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:21:51 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16060 Angela, watch for my contemporary crack (crackle-pop) submission. “Love Is A Blast” is a pyro,not porno, fast paced,explosive page turner, with a heroine in jeopardy. Not one, but two, guys vie to fan the spark that will ignite her desire. One is her ex, who yearns to relight her passion. Another, her college teacher,who sparks her curosity when she overhears his phone conversation, “Let’s take them into the woods tonight and bury them. No one will hear us out there.”
Plan on at least two more novels to follow “Love Sparks” and “Explosive Love”.

]]> By: Cara North http://carinapress.com/blog/2012/10/now-acquiring-contemporary-crack-at-carina-press/comment-page-1/#comment-16025 Cara North Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:51:32 +0000 http://carinapress.com/blog/?p=13710#comment-16025 I think the submission I sent in before the holiday madness started would fit with this call. I read on Twitter you did not want re-submission, is that true for this as well or just the 30 day promotion that ran?

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