New website and new guidelines at Loose Id

[julesjones]

My publisher is moving webhost and having a major revamp of the website. Amongst other things this means that the site is up and down at the moment and will be for another day or two (which I am sulking about because with perfect timing it went offline just as I got a rave review of Lord and Master from AztecLady that should have sold a few copies).

Along with this, there are new guidelines up, which may interest some of you. *If* the change has propagated to your corner of the intertubes, you'll find them here:
http://www.loose-id.net/submissions.aspx

Of note: "Stories of 55,000 - 75,000 words will receive an advance and be automatically considered for print." It's not a very big advance (my novels would typically earn out in the first month), but it's there.

"we're reopening submissions to contemporaries and historicals that are sufficiently erotic to meet our desire to have readers squirming in their seats." Yes, that does mean straight contemporaries, both senses of straight. If you've got a pure contemporary that's het and hot, they'll look at it.

ETA: just to clarify -- they've always welcomed LGBT and various other flavours of contemporary and historical not well catered for by mainstream publishers (such as multi-cultural and BBW). But it was very hard to place a heterosexual contemporary or historical with no other sub-genre appeal with LI over the last couple of years, and now they're re-opening submissions for those.

Comments

[jessewave.livejournal.com]

This is great and I like the new look but I've looked everywhere for their "coming soon" area and can't find it. Maybe I'm stupid (don't answer that Jules) *g* or it is somewhere else, but I depend on the "coming Soon" list to schedule my reviews or request books.
Anyway the site is great.

[julesjones]

They're still developing the site, so it should turn up sooner or later. It's not good to be doing development on a live site, but one of the reasons for moving webhost was having better site development and maintenance tools, so to some extent they *couldn't* do it all before moving.

And in fact, "coming soon" is there right now, at least from where I am (although there isn't a lot in it at the moment). Some of the changes take a while to propagate through the net, so you might not be able to see it, but for me it's on the sidebar and the link leads here: http://www.loose-id.net/cat-Coming_Soon-463.aspx

[moondancerdrake.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up. I was starting to wonder if all the erotica publishers were putting the kebash on f/f submissions, good to see LooseID is still accepting that as well as lots of other fun stuff.

[julesjones]

Samhain is still looking for f/f as well. Angela James has said that Samhain simply don't get many submissions, and I think one of the LI owners has said the same thing.