Submissions are open for both Erotic Romance and Genre stories and books. Please check our guidelines often as they change as our needs for fiction change. If you bookmark our guidelines, use this page as the URLS for the erotic and genre guidelines change as they are updated.

We are a royalties paying publisher and there are never any fees charged to our authors.

To read our guidelines for erotic fiction go here.

To read our guidelines for non-erotic scifi, fantasy, horror, romance and mysteries go here.

General Editorial Guidelines are as follows:

Stories must be finished. No partials or proposals will be accepted.

Authors should send only one submission at a time.

No Bestiality, this does not include weres.

No necrophilia, this does not include vampires.

No Pedophilia! All characters must be 18 years or older, there are no excptions! Period!

No scat, golden showers or sharp or dangerous things put into bodily orifices.

No felching.

No snuff.

Sorry, but we cannot accept fanfiction, even with characters in the Public Domain.

Formatting your submission:

Times New Roman 12 pt, double spaced.

POV changes marked by two line spaces between one character's POV and the next. Scene changes should be marked with three centered asterisks.

No headers, footers or page numbers.

RTF files only. No wordpad or .doc files will be read.

Authors must include their real name along with a pen name if used, as well as their return email address.

Submissions should be sent as an attachment in RTF format.

We do not accept snail mail submissions.

All stories submitted, including novels, must be in a single file, not broken up into sections.

Send your submissions and queries to:

Examples: Submission-Called by Power-Auburnimp-Barnette

Or: Query-Called by Power-Auburnimp-Barnette

Authors must be at least 18 years of age, or of a legal age to buy adult material in their state of residence. There are no exceptions.

Why submit to Shadowfire Press?

We are a royalties paying publisher. Payment to authors is 40% of net paid monthly, with no minimum before payment is made. We define 'net' as the balance of funds minus point of sale fees charged to us by our merchant services, or third party sales venues such as Smashwords or All Romance eBooks. Editors receive 8% of net, under the same terms. Artistís cover art payments are negotiable.

Authors work with our artists to create their cover art.

We edit all books submitted to us.

We provide your book's release date at the time the contract is signed.

Our contract is based on the EPIC model and is for two years. (Some anthologies may have 3 year contracts.)

There are never any fees charged to our authors.

We take only the rights we plan to utilize and have an escape clause that returns rights automatically should we go out of business or fail to publish your book in a timely manner. We define timely as within one year of the book or story being contracted.

We do not have a clause that allows us to sell your work as an 'asset' should the company be sold. Many publishers do.

Nervous about submitting your work to a new publisher? We are too. Why not try us with a shorter work if you're uncertain about us? We're willing to accept short stories of 5000 to 12000 words in the genres we are interested in publishing so you can try us out. Just make a note in your subject line of: Short Submission, and then follow the rest of the formatting instructions given above.

Thank you for your interest in Shadowfire Press, we look forward to reading your work.