WE HAVE A CONTEST FOR YOU!

In addition to the regular submissions we're looking for this year (listed below with deadlines), we have a contest with the kind of publishing package you just don't find with independent publishers these days. If you provide us the winning story in our NWP Sizzlin' Cover Contest, we'll provide you some marketing and promotional help beyond the typical "go get a bookmark template" plan. Here's our grand prize:

1. NWP publishes your novel with the cover highlighted in the contest in both print and electronic formats simultaneously--no waiting around six or twelve months for the print version

2. NWP provides you a compelling book trailer at no cost to you and posts it on the Night Wolf Designs YouTube channel as well as other venues

3. NWP provides you a review from Pacific Book Reviews at no cost to you, which their reviewer posts on your book's page at Amazon.com as well as other venues

4. NWP provides you a handful (exact # still being figured out) of interviews on reader-visited blogs where you get to talk about your new release immediately after its release--that's marketing authors pay big bucks for during online books tours

We know authors are responsible for their own marketing and promotion these days, but why not get a little help from the publisher when your publisher knows the business? Enter the NWP Sizzlin' Cover Contest, win big, and get that kind of help right off the bat. We're willing to invest in you if you've got a novel worth the investment.

Here are the contest guidelines. Follow them to the letter.

How many times have you picked up a book because the cover was great? Then you got about five or six chapters into the book and wondered why on earth that cover was on that book? It's a sad fact that many big publishing houses assign artists to create those book-selling images without considering the nuances of the story inside.

YOU'RE gonna change that.

Take a gander at the tumultuous scene below and let your imagination go wild. We want you to write the excellent story that "belongs" to this cover.

The Rules: No erotica. No child-endangerment. Send your 50,000- to 100,000-word completed, double-spaced, Times New Roman-typed, MS as a Word document to nightwolfpublications@gmail.com with a cover e-mail. The e-mail needs to have a subject line of: NWP Sizzlin Cover Contest YourName. Include your name and all contact information on the title page of your MS. Your deadline is Saturday, July 1, right after the solar eclipse on Canada Day. Any genre is accepted. Make sure you proofread and edit your work before submitting. Make it clean; choose good words; use excellent grammar; make it something you're proud of. At NWP, the story matters!

 

 

SUBMISSION CALL OUTS:

 

A Yuletide Wish, Volume II

Deadline: May 30, 2011

The world needs your prettiest works of wintry fiction…again.

Night Wolf Publications is going to publish its second holiday anthology with

  • a few young children’s stories
  • a few middle grade/tween stories
  • a few young adult stories
  • a few short wintry or holiday poems (for any age)
  • a few sweet romances

The MS you submit doesn’t have to be religious in nature, but it does need to fit a winter or holiday theme ranging from Thanksgiving in the U.S. through winter solstice, Hannukah, Advent, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve everywhere.

Parameters for Children’s Stories:

Children’s stories have a word limit of no more than 1,000 words. When submitting, please state the age group you intend as your audience. (If including up to, but no more than three (3) illustrations per story, each should be attached as a jpg, 300 dpi; no embedded images will be accepted. Illustrations are not required.)

All other stories have a limit between 2,000 and 6,000 words.

Poetry should be light, beautiful, uplifting, and no more than 30 lines.

There is no submission fee, no reading fee, no editing fee. All accepted authors will receive a free copy of the print anthology upon publication in early November 2011 and will be expected to help promote the release of the anthology in their circles and on their websites.

When sending your submission, include the words “NWP Christmas Anthology” in the subject line. Send this to NightWolfPublications@gmail.com on or before May 30, 2011. We’re not a publishing house that keeps you in suspense. You’ll know if your work has been accepted by July 15, 2011. (You will likely hear from us before then, but please remember that all publishers are busy and we’re accepting your submission without the assistance of an agent or editor to facilitate correspondence for us.)

Help Night Wolf Publications produce a lovely holiday anthology to lighten and brighten this winter season, not just for the published authors, but also for the lucky readers who open this gift throughout the year. If you would like to see what kind of work we accepted for publication in our first holiday anthology, you can order 2010’s A Yuletide Wish from Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/NWPYuletide.

 

Steampunk

Deadline: Sept. 30, 2011

Everything was better back in the day...or so they say...

Night Wolf Publications seeks the latest in gizmo gadgetry: YOUR STEAMPUNK NOVEL. Whether your polished manuscript is humorous, dark, romantic, creepy, or carefully something completely different, the staff at Night Wolf Publications wants to read it before Sept. 30, 2011.

 

Follow the Directions!

Here’s how to submit a steampunk novel to Night Wolf Publications.

1.         Prepare a well-crafted, self-edited, clean manuscript of 50,000 to 100,000 words in the steampunk genre. Also prepare a well-crafted, self-edited two- to three-page synopsis of your story--not a chapter-by-chapter summary--an actual synopsis, which we expect to be a professional example of your writing skill.

2.         Send a query letter AND the two- to three-page synopsis of your completed story to nightwolfpublications@gmail.com by Sept. 30, 2011. (there’s a great summary of how to write a romance synopsis at http://brendacoulter.com/BrendaCoulterTips.htm). Include "NWP Steampunk Novel" in the subject line.

3.         An editor for NWP will contact you within a month of receiving your query, requesting the full MS if he or she is interested in your story. As you will find in the publishing industry, repetitive queries will encourage us to dump your query and send you a polite rejection. At the time of an acceptance, you will be expected to follow the simple instructions to send the full MS to NWP.

4.         Authors are never expected to pay for their submissions at NWP. There are no submission fees, no reading fees, no editing fees, no processing fees, no printing fees, etc. Authors are not required to purchase copies of their books upon printing. Contracts will be offered when full MS are selected.

 

     

Zombie Romance

Deadline: Aug. 30, 2011

Ain’t no lovin’ like undead lovin’—it applies to more than vampires.

Night Wolf Publications seeks the latest in paranormal romance: zombie romance. Whether your polished manuscript is light, dark, humorous, serious, gory & greasy, or carefully exfoliated, the staff at Night Wolf Publications wants to read it before Aug. 30, 2011.

 

Follow the Directions!

Here’s how to submit a zombie-specific, paranormal romance to Night Wolf Publications.

  1. Prepare a well-crafted, self-edited, clean manuscript of 50,000 to 100,000 words in the paranormal romance genre that centers on zombie romance. Also prepare a well-crafted, self-edited two- to three-page synopsis of your story--not a chapter-by-chapter summary--an actual synopsis, which we expect to be a professional example of your writing skill.
  2. Send a query letter AND the two- to three-page synopsis of your completed story to nightwolfpublications@gmail.com anytime between now and Aug. 30, 2011. (there’s a great summary of how to write a romance synopsis at http://brendacoulter.com/BrendaCoulterTips.htm). Include "NWP Zombie Romance" in the subject line.
  3. An editor for NWP will contact you within a month of receiving your query, requesting the full MS if he or she is interested in your story. As you will find in the publishing industry, repetitive queries will encourage us to dump your query and send you a polite rejection. At the time of an acceptance, you will be expected to follow the simple instructions to send the full MS to NWP.
  4. Authors are never expected to pay for their submissions at NWP. There are no submission fees, no reading fees, no editing fees, no processing fees, no printing fees, etc. Authors are not required to purchase copies of their books upon printing. Contracts will be offered when full MS are selected.

 

QUESTIONS:

Have a question you need to ask us? Email us at nightwolfpublications@gmail.com  and we'll reply ASAP!

 

 

 NWP's Submission Guidelines are Simple

We love trees. We believe that once a tree dies and goes to its great reward, its matter is better used for printing books than for printing oodles of query letters and submission packets. When your MS is ready for one of NWP's submission categories, we want you to send it to us electronically. NO SNAIL MAIL SUBMISSIONS WILL BE REVIEWED. Period. Authors who can't follow instructions aren't fun to work with, so let's look at the rest of our instructions together.

If you have a story to tell, make sure you've completed the whole thing before trying to pitch it to an agent, editor or publisher.

Edit your story. Look for plot holes, info-dumps, weak characters, run-on sentences, lengthy passages of passive voice, inconsistencies, etc. Fix these things. Of course a publisher will assign an editor to work on your MS once it's accepted, but no publisher wants to take on a problem child. Publishers, including NWP, want to take on stories that are well-crafted and well-told. Part of that equation is grasping the language firmly and using it with skill.

Use only ONE SPACE after punctuation.

Make sure your complete, full, legal name appears with its correct spelling on the cover page/title page of your MS. Let us know if you wish to use a pen name, but be sure your complete, full, legal name appears spelled correctly on the cover page. The pen name is adequate for headers on subsequent pages. Page numbers are not important because this is electronic, but the name in the upper left-hand corner is helpful.

All text should be in Times New Roman, 12 point. Make sure you haven't put words or phrases in all caps or boldface type for emphasis in your work. If your words need exclamation points and capitalization to make them effective, then you've chosen poor words. Rewrite.

Night Wolf Publications is currently seeking MS for the special genres listed on this submissions page. Send synopses or MS as the instructions for each category require. If you have a MS that does not fall into one of these categories, please send only a query letter to nightwolfpublications@gmail.com to see if we would be interested in your current work.

 

  
 
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