CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Lilley Press presents a special release of themed novellas and short novels!

Current themes: Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day.

Word length: 25-80,000 words.

Genres: Paranormal Romance; Speculative Fiction (Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk etc; Mainstream (Contemporary); Young Adult.

Please DO NOT send "Fan Fiction" or stories with copyrighted characters or worlds; Erotica; Plays; Poetry; Nonfiction; or any of the other genres on the list in our general guidelines.

We are looking for strong plots and characters, and all stories must relate to/feature our current themes.

The subject line of your email should read: [Genre] [Title] by [author's real name], [Theme]Submission.

All manuscripts should be formatted according to our formatting guidelines below.

Lilley Press is a Canadian Small Press publishing in ebook and standard print formats.

You do NOT have to be Canadian citizen, or a resident of Canada, in order to submit your work. Lilley Press seeks the best fiction, regardless of author's country of origin. However, all work submitted must be in English.

All submissions must be new and unpublished works. Lilley Press does not accept reprints from new authors.

Lilley Press accepts only one manuscript per author at a time. Simultaneous submissions are fine, but if your manuscript is being considered elsewhere, please let us know and keep us informed about its status.

We will consider novel and novella length works of fiction from 15,000 - 100,000 words, but prefer to see works in the 60,000 word plus range.

Lilley Press publishes the following Genres:

*Paranormal Romance
*Fantasy (Magic Realism, Cyberpunk, Urban Fantasy etc.)
*Science Fiction
*Horror
*Mainstream (Contemporary)Fiction
*Historical Fiction
*Young Adult

If your work does not fall within these specific categories, we may still consider it. However, Lilley Press does not publish the following:

*"Fan Fiction" or stories with copyrighted characters or worlds.
*Erotica.
*Plays.
*Poetry.
*Short Stories or short story Collections.
*Nonfiction.
*Children's Fiction.

Lilley Press accepts only electronic submissions.

All submissions should be Emailed to us as a MS Word rtf attachment. We do not accept doc files, pdf files, or anything with a file extension other than rtf. Any such submissions will be rejected.

All submissions should be accompanied by an email cover letter introducing you and your submission. The cover letter should be included in the body of your email, not included as a separate file.

Please include the following information:

*Your full name
*Your mailing address
*Your telephone number
*A valid email address
*A brief synopsis of your novel

The subject line of your email should read: [Genre] [Title] by [author's real name]

Please include THE ENTIRE MANUSCRIPT as a complete separate file. Do not send individual chapter files.

Please send your submissions to submissions@lilleypress.com.

Lilley Press does not publish anything containing overly graphic violence, hate propaganda, or gratuitous sex (sex, violence and coarse language are okay up to a point, but they must be within the bounds of good taste, and they must be integral to the plot).

Lilley Press generally follows STANDARD MANUSCRIPT FORMAT.

The first/cover page of the manuscript itself should contain the following information:

*Title
*Author's real name and pen name
*Author's contact email address
*Word count

All manuscripts must be in a clearly readable, 12 pt font (Courier, Times New Roman, etc.)

All manuscripts must be sent as a MS Word rtf attachment

All manuscripts must be double spaced, with one inch (1") margins.

Paragraphs should be indented five spaces.

Use a page break at the end of each chapter ensuring that each chapter begins on a new page.

It is not necessary to use _ for italics or * for bold. We prefer to see italics and bold as the author intended them.

Please use curly, double quotation marks for dialogue. "This" instead of 'this'.

Please be sure to include two spaces after periods.

Please send us your BEST work. Submissions should be free of punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors. For your reference, Lilley Press uses the Chicago Manual of Style.

Manuscripts are first checked for formatting and guidelines issues. Once it is determined that the manuscript is in accordance with guidelines, the Acquisitions Editor reads the first few chapters to determine whether or not the work will be of interest to the Reading Panel. This part of the process can take from as little as a day or two to as long as a couple of months.

Manuscripts that are determined to be of interest to the Reading Panel are stripped of the author's identification and made available to the Panel for a blind read. The Reader Panel can take up to 3 or 4 months to determine whether or not a manuscript will be accepted.

Each author will receive an acknowledgment of receipt for their manuscript and are informed of where their manuscript is in the process. We will endeavor to respond to all submissions within the time stated above, so please give us the maximum amount of time listed to review your work. If you do not hear from us within that time, please feel free to send us a query asking about the status of your submission.

All queries on the status of a manuscript may be sent to submissions@lilleypress.com. Please use the words Author Query: [Genre] [Title] by [author's real name] as the subject of your email when trying to determine the status of your manuscript.

Lilley Press publishes primarily eBooks, with the option for a print edition later.

Lilley Press does not offer an author advance at this time. Authors receive royalties of 50% of net sales for eBooks, and 15% of net sales for print editions, paid quarterly.

Lilley Press does not provide a certificate of copyright for our authors, but we do provide an ISBN number.