Erotic Romance Pitch Contest for Etopia Press

Etopia Press is looking to acquire erotic romance for their 2013 calendar. They pay advances of $250 to $1,000 for erotic romance manuscripts over 50,000 words.


Until midnight EST Sept 23rd, you will have an opportunity to post your three line pitch and first 100 words as a comment to this post. Results will be posted within the next week. Check back to see if you've scored a request!  The editing crew at Etopia Press is anxious to see your work.


The rules are simple:
1. Post your three line pitch in the comments section of this article and your first 100 words. Include at the top the Title, Genre, & Word Count.
2. Only post if your manuscript is ready now!
3. No limit on pitches
6. Be sure to include your name, title and word count of your manuscript, and genre.

The Genres and descriptions of the type of stories we are looking for are listed below, along with some of our latest covers. :) Good luck everyone. I can't wait to read those pitches!

For full submission guidelines and what we'll expect if your pitch is accepted:  http://etopiapressblog.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines/

Etopia Rush!

Etopia Rush! is Etopia Press’s erotic romance imprint. These stories are first and foremost romance—they must have a happily-ever-after or a happy-for-now ending, and must have at their core a developing love relationship. But these books also have a high degree of sexuality and eroticism that cannot be separated from the story. The characters are inherently sexual, and their sexual relationship is a natural result of their developing relationship. Stories should possess more love scenes than a mainstream
romance, and use no euphemistic language. The sex scenes should be graphic and explicit—and hot. Like the rest of the story, the sex scenes should actively engage the reader. All romance readers want to feel the love, but erotic romance readers also want to feel the sex!





Stories can be any subgenre, including:

Contemporary Romance
Historical Romance
Western Romance
Paranormal Romance
Romantic Suspense
Action/Adventure Romance
Media and Sports Romance
BDSM Romance

Sexual content may include kink, fetish, bondage, D/s, multiple partners, and other alternative sexualities that may be offensive to some traditional romance readers. We’d love to see more LGBT, interracial, multicultural, BBW, May/December, and other kinds of variety and diversity (although this is true of all our imprints in all our genres).

Etopia Rush! stories should have:

1. Lots of hot, delicious sex! Take us with your characters
as they feel that rush of desire, of erotic love, of sexual pleasure. No
euphemistic language—keep it real, and keep it sexy!

2. No adultery and no cheating. The romantic pair (or more)
may not be married to others during the course of the story. In couples stories, the romantic couple may not have casual sex or a sexual relationship with anyone else once they have sex with each other. Previous lovers or situations may be OK, depending on the storyline. Your characters may be sexy and insatiable, but they only have eyes (and lips and hands and other things) for each other.

3. In ménage and multiple partner stories, the characters
must still be involved in a romantic, emotional relationship with one another—it’s not about casual sex. Characters involved with the multi relationship may have sex occasionally as couples, but only with other members of the multi relationship (that is, no one-nighters with outsiders—no cheating). In Etopia Rush! the “multi” relationship should develop and remain intact throughout the story and contain a happily-ever-after or happy-for-now ending for all, or at least most, of the characters, depending on the storyline. However, stories about a couple who have casual sex with others and remain only a couple at the end are more appropriate for the Etopia ’Rotica line. Remember, Etopia Rush! stories are still, at their heart, romance. We still want love and some initial form of commitment along
with the hot sex!

4. Safe sex. This is required for contemporary stories.
Certain historical, fantasy, etc. stories may be exempt from this requirement, but this will be the exception rather than the rule.

5. Word counts: 2,500 to 90,000 words

6. All characters must be 18 years of age or older, even in historicals and fantasy.

7. In addition to your hottest male/female stories, we’d love to see your m/m, f/f, ménage, poly, interracial, multicultural, BBW, May/December, kink, fetish, BDSM, and other stories that take sexy to the edge!

Stories may not contain:

1. Sex between characters under the age of 18.
2. Rape for titillation (exploring it for literary
   reasons is ok, but rape is a crime, not a turn-on. Capture fantasy, dubious
   consent stories, etc. are OK.
3. Pedophilia or incest.
4. Necrophilia or bestiality (vampires, shapeshifters,
   aliens, and other sentient non-humans
   are OK).
5. bodily functions, i.e. “golden showers.”

Etopia ‘Rotica

From literary erotica to sexual adventure, Etopia ‘Rotica is pure, molten desire. This is erotica at its hottest, no romance required. The only requirement is eroticism, and the pure joy of sex. Etopia ‘Rotica is sex incarnate.

These stories should be bold and unafraid. A woman’s or man’s sexual journey, fantasy, interlude, adventure…this is where the mind and body run free and prudish limits are left behind. All kinds of erotic stories are welcome, as long as they celebrate the beauty and joy of sex.

Etopia ‘Rotica stories should be:

1. About sex. Not only do the characters have it, but sex
should be integral to the story in some way.

2. Adultery and cheating are sometimes present in
“sexual journey” or “sexual coming of age” stories. This is
fine if it fits the story. Casual or uncommitted sex is also OK. However all main characters should be basically “good” people (excluding villains, if any). These should not be stories of the sick and twisted — we have a horror
line for that!

3.There does not have to be a happily-ever-after or
happy-for-now ending. There does not have to be an emotional relationship or commitment (although there may be—it depends on the story). Erotic stories that follow the traditional romantic plot arc and have these types of endings should be directed to Etopia Rush!

4. Kink, fetish, BDSM, ménage and poly, interracial,
multicultural, LGBT, and all sorts of sexual fantasy are welcome. The hotter, the more erotic, the better.

5. Word counts: 2,500 to 110,000 words

6. All characters must be 18 years of age or older, even in historical and fantasy subgenres.

Etopia ‘Rotica may not contain:

1. Sex between characters under the age of 18.
2. Rape for titillation (exploring it for literary reasons is ok, but rape is a crime, not a turn-on. Capture fantasy, dubious consent stories, etc. are OK.
3. Pedophilia or incest.
4. Necrophilia or bestiality (vampires, shapeshifters, aliens, and other sentient
   non-humans are OK).
5. bodily functions, i.e. ”golden showers” and the rest.