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RELEASE
The Island by Kristopher
Quentin
Stars Fall by Louis J Harris
Draven’s Gate by Cheryl
Headford (Mock up Cover below)
An Anthology to support our
social outreach program.
And
A submission call from
writers all over the world.
This is what can be expected from CoolDudes
Publishing in the next three to four months.
We have chosen to launch our
CoolDudes Imprint with Cheryl Headford’s beautiful YA M/M Fairytale for
the simple reason that Cheryl writes the most endearing, angsty gay stories the
whole world should know about.
With this launch we intend to give a $25.00
Amazon coupon to a lucky subscriber to our site and Newspaper, plus free e-book
copies of Draven’s Gate, Stars Fall and The Island when it is released. To top
that, all our participating bloggers will have a giveaway prize of all three
e-books to one of their lucky subscribers.
OUR PUBLISHING PROGRAM
We want to tap into the M/M market and expand it
using our affiliate editors, beta readers, reviewers and promotional staff. We
don’t ask for a penny upfront, however, we do offer contracts and deduct a
small percentage of 40% from royalties for the services we offer.
We aim to publish e-books with a strong M/M
element but are NOT genre romance and not specific to Happy Ever After
(HEA). The work may be darker in nature and reflective of the world gay
men face. These are more along the lines of how things really happen with
all of the horrors gay men and women have to face through their lives.
But, the romances will be heartfelt and not a
guaranteed HEA although we would prefer HEA.
Literary works are welcome.
These are novels that minimize on dialogue and
maximize on narrative, but the language must be of a high standard. There
are many authors writing literary books as opposed to light romance.
We also publish YA and NA, and we will attempt to
control who sees what age wise. We want to open people’s eyes to the fact there
is a whole culture of extremes out there in writing Gay Fiction.
We include all types of works about gay men,
whether it be relationships written by gay men/women or straight, it
doesn’t matter.
The focus is romance, crime, mystery,
paranormal, fantasy with a gay theme (because after all, it’s perfectly normal
right; it shouldn’t be set apart because its about two men together, or a fairy
and a human) rather than gay romance, gay mystery, gay thriller etc…. It means
someone buys it for the story it offers.
Above all, we strive to have this kind of
reaction: ‘Oh my God! That’s such a great thriller, and you know what, it’s got
two guys in it, but wow! it’s a fab book!’ That way we get the best of both –
the hard-core readers who only buy gay romance and perhaps some others who buy
it despite the fact it has two gay guys.
OUR SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We accept works that are a
minimum of 30,000 words unless it is a solicited short for an anthology.
Maximum word count: 120 000
words.
Please only send a submission
query through our website at http://www.cooldudespublishing.com for
completed works that are ready to begin the editing process.
Use “Submission query” as
your email subject and in the body please give the title of the work, your
name, completed word count, and a synopsis which should include details
regarding character development, plot, and conflict/story resolution.
Please use Arial or Times New
Roman font, 12 point size for queries.
Also tell us the genre(s) and if
it is for our adult or YA range.
You should include three sample
chapters in Word format and address them to the following address: louisjharris@cooldudespublishing.com.
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We strive to have this kind of reaction: 'Oh my
God! That's such a great thriller, and you know what, it's got two guys in it,
but wow! it's a fab book!' That way, in presenting a story, we get the best of
both – attraction for the hard-core readers who only buy gay romance and
perhaps some others who buy it despite the fact it has two, or maybe more, gay
guys.
OUR SUBMISSION CALL
General Call
We want plot driven stories featuring at least
one gay male main character. While we do wish to see a romance element within
the stories, we do not require the story to have romance as its primary focus.
We prefer a happily ever after, but realize that love is often bittersweet, so
a happy for now ending is also welcome. We prefer submissions to be at least
30,000 words and will happily consider longer works upwards of 150,000. Stand
alone titles are welcome as are series and we welcome both first time and
established authors. If a title has previously been self published, it must be
removed from distribution before we will consider it.
You, Me, and the Stars
Space ships, alien worlds, galactic conquests…
CoolDudes is looking for quality science fiction with well realized worlds,
exciting plots, good character development, and while there should be some
romance, it doesn’t have to be the primary focus. Submissions should be at
least 30,000 words in length and we are happy to accept longer works. Have an
epic over 150,000 words? We’re happy to take a look and see if its a good fit.
Down in the City
Skyscrapers. Wharf fronts. Shopping malls. We’re
looking for some gritty urban fantasy worth sinking teeth into. Vampires,
dragon shifters, wizards, fae, and more are all welcome. Submissions should be
a minimum of 30,000 words and we are happy to consider works over 100,000
words. Whatever the story, it should contain an element of a romance, though it
doesn’t have to be the primary focus.
Contemporary Romance
Any setting, as long as the world is our own and
it’s set in this era. We are looking for tales featuring two men in love. New
couples, established couples, friends to lovers, Love comes in all shapes
and sizes and we want their stories! HEA or HFN stories preferred and the
stories may contain dark themes or be as sweet as candy as no two love stories
are alike. Submissions should be at least 30,000 words.
Young Adult
Here at CoolDudes we firmly believe that youth
are our future. We’re looking for positive stories featuring LGBT youth main
characters, aimed at readers 12 and up and 16 and up. Please include an
intended age range with your submission. Stories can be set within any genre,
and romance can be secondary. So whether it’s a young person running for his
junior high student council while realizing his first real crush is another
boy, or a college student finding the love of his life, we want to hear about
it. Stories should be a minimum of 25,000 words.
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We’re excited about this venture
because, well, it is exciting. It’s a
huge challenge for us, after all, every one of the team is a writer, or a beta
reader, or an editor in his/her own right. We are excited because our imprint
is a baby and we want to nurture it and see it grow. We are excited because we want our writers
and readers to feel at home with us.
We are not an answering machine.
We are not form letters.
We are not a call centre.
Every step of the process goes
through a human being, some are parents with families, some are lovers who live
together, some are happily married in a mutual gay relationship. In all this, we are all supporters of LGBT
and this is our way of giving back to our amazing society.
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