Muse It Up Is Having Open Submissions Call

Now's a great time to get your spicy books. MuseItHot Publishing is having an open call for submissions. Check out the details:


MuseItUp Publishing is seeking romance erotica for our Short ‘N Spicey line up for 2012. Stories can be anywhere between 3000 – 20,000 words. Please send your full ms with a short synopsis as attachments to sub.musepub@gmail.com with Short ‘N Spicey on the subject heading. Stories can be in any genre but must include a romantic theme. Can be F/M, F/F, M/M.






Please include in your submission which of the three heat levels your story falls under:






Naughty but Nice: some graphic language and scenes






Naughty with a tinge of sizzle: might include some fantasy, spanking, toys, and f/f, m/m, with several love scenes






Sizzling HOT!: explicit love scenes and language, multiple partners, same sex relationships, toys…elements that are heavier than the above heat levels.






We're also seeking Christmas stories for our 2012 publication in both our mainstream and erotica divisions.






Thank you






Lea Schizas






Publisher






MuseItUp Publishing


Here are the submission guidelines:

Submissions


Thank you for your interest in MuseItUp Publishing.

Our submissions are now open.

MuseItUp Publishing opened its door to writers March 2010. We follow the motto: Building the team to achieve the dream! which simply means gathering writers who understand that a 'family' of writers in a house can achieve a goal when they work together.



We welcome new and seasoned writers to send us their manuscripts. Simultaneous submissions will be accepted provided it is clearly stated in your cover letter that another publisher is considering your work. Our authors do not pay a fee to e-publish their books with us. We provide editing and cover art for all our books, and assign the ISBN to your work.



We are open to the following genres:







Romance - everything from: romantic comedy, contemporary romance, fantasy romance, historical romance, paranormal romance, romantic suspense, western romance, sweet romance, sci-fi romance, time travel romance

Paranormal - Fantasy - we love vampires, ghosts, witches, werewolves and shape shifters...and dragons

Mystery - Suspense -Thriller - captivate us with the pacing of your novel. Hint: we love cozy mysteries

Young Adult - we're big fans of the Potter & Twilight series but seeking a unique voice for this target group

MuseItYoung – this division is for our tween crossover chapter books for 10 – 14 year olds

Horror & Dark Fiction - scare the living daylights out of us with your settings, dialogue, and characters - not with blood and gore and missing human parts. Use the power of your writer's voice to draw images that will leave readers sitting at the edge of their seats.

Science Fiction - do you have a fantasy/romance/paranormal/etc. set in another planet? Fleshed out your otherly world? Then give us a shout.





MuseItHOT imprint

Erotica submissions are open as well for our MuseItHOT! imprint. MuseItHOT Publishing is actively seeking erotic romance, whether naughty but nice, naughty and sizzling, or naughty and sizzling HOT, for publication as of January 2012. We would like to see well-developed stories and characters we can easily connect with. We’ll acquire erotic romance in all subgenres: Contemporary, suspense, paranormal, fantasy, historical, f/f, m/m, ménage (with people please, no animals!!) We accept stories from 3000 words and up, but prefer novella lengths ranging from 15000 to 25000 words.

The sexual relationship should enhance the storyline and character development, contributing to the forward motion of the plot.





We're seeking quality work, not first drafts, ranging from 3,000 words minimum to novel length. We are currently NOT seeking: short story collections or anthologies, Poetry, nonfiction, or stories written by more than two authors.



We are an e-publishing house with the aim of publishing e-books first and print books to follow an e-book release within a year (only novel length books of 45,000 and more will be considered for print.) If print is not published within a year of the e-book release, print rights are reverted back to the author and the e-book rights are still maintained until the duration of the contract.



Although we are open to all genres as stated in our guidelines above, we are actively seeking the following for MuseItUp and MuseItHOT:



young adult romance (for mainstream)

vampires and other undead creatures

cozy mysteries

thrillers

tween chapter books (for boys especially)

HOW TO SUBMIT GUIDELINES



On the subject heading place Sub: title of your work. Within the body of your email include the following in your cover letter:



your real name

your pseudonym, if any

email address along with your website link if any

title of your work and if this is part of a series

genre

word count

brief author bio

cover letter introducing yourself, and your work

Please attach the following with your cover letter introduction, making sure your manuscript includes your name, pseudonym, title, snail mail address word count, genre, and email address on the left hand side of the opening page:



your full manuscript in RTF or DOC (not docx),

and a brief synopsis in RTF or DOC (chapter by chapter is not necessary)

Name the file: TITLE_YourName - ex. SHIMMERING_JaneSmith

All our submissions are electronically based. We do not accept snail mail submissions. We're in tune with the times and also prefer to save you a few bucks. We will confirm receipt of manuscript and get back to you within 3 - 8 weeks.



THINGS WE WILL NOT ACCEPT:



any work depicting forced rape

abuse of children or any sexual tone with minors under the age of eighteen

bestiality

partially or incomplete and unedited manuscripts

necrophilia

incest

fanfiction

anything that includes bodily fluid (solids included)

FORMATTING:





Please use Times New Roman regular, font 12 pt

Use four * with a space in-between each like this: * * * * to indicate scene break - not ************************

Chapter headings in 14pt bold or use Heading 2

No page numbers

manuscripts should be 1.5 spaced

one inch margins all around

no headers or footers

do not underline but use italics for inner thoughts - ABSOLUTELY NO UNDERSCORES!

all telepathic communication must contain quotation marks and italicized (quotation marks italicized too)

send to sub.musepub AT gmail DOT com addressed to Acquisition Editors

Royalty and Contracts



Our books are published in digital format, and we pay a royalty of 40% of the download price from our bookstore. Consideration for print are for books 45,000 words and more only, which will receive a royalty of 20% net. Our contract is for three years.



Word Count & Pricing of our E-books



Short Stories



3,000 -4,000 = 0.99cents

4,001 - 5,000 words = $1.99

5,001 - 15,000 = $2.50


Novellas

15,001 - 25,000 = $3.50

25,001 - 35,000 = $4.50


Novels

35,001 – 60,000 = $5.50

60,001 – AND UP = $5.95


Thank you for your interest in MuseItUp Publishing.

MY NAME IS ERG AND I AM IN CHARGE!

My name is Erg, but you can call me EM, short for ELECTRO MAN!

I've been wired since I was a mere

spark in my parent's energy flow.

There was a lot of in-fighting when my charge first snapped into life. My grandparents,

Sixty and

Forty Watt, wanted me to be named in the family tradition, but my dad,

AC Current, literally flipped a

switch over that. Mom,

DC Mother Board, tried really hard to get them all to name me

Candle Wyke.

You should have seen the

bolts of raw power my grands sent out into the night sky over that one! I hear tell they shut down three-quarters of the Northern United States and half of the whole of Canada too. When Sixty, that's grandpa, gets

frazzled, he does cut a wide path across the

ether waves.

In a way I feel lucky. EM is so much better that what my sister got. I mean how does a female sparkler live up to being called

AMPS? All through school, the other currents tormented the devil out of her by adding  the G-R to the front of her name. It still burns her circuits every time someone calls her GRAMPS.

Most of us survive the static zing of childhood torment by reverting to intials, hence my being EM. I have a cousin who goes by "CB". No, his initials have nothing to do with

Citizen Band radio, though he did get relentlessly slammed with that all through

Cumulo-Nimbus High.

His real name is

Circuit Breaker, and although conservation of energy is honorable amongst our kind, other jolts of charge do not hestiate to tease, just like you human kids tend to tease and torment each other.

Oh hey, I'm not here to give you a bolt by bolt play on our species' momentary

fire crackings. I'm here to talk about Elliott Blakely and my role in his pursuit throughout L. J. Holmes'

IN FROM THE COLD, of the comely

Mari Donovan.

I've known Mari, well, forever! I was already firmly intermingling with the cabin Blakely bought back a ways. I remember

Hector and the feel of his gnarled skin upon my smooth young self years and years before Hector up and died.

I must admit my home, the well appointed fuse box is in the rear of

the cabin, so I was not a first hand witness to Mari jumping Elliot's bones. Man, what a sight that musta been. I had to hear about it from that stuck up bunch of bones, the moose antler trophy!

Let me tell you, those antlers need to be taken down a peg or two! Seriously! Their original owner had to

die AND be stuffed to turn them into a trophy...where I have been a sparkling powerhouse since my parents first

 crossed their wires! But those dumbass antlers act like they are the only part of the cabin that matters. I'd like to see them rub their forces together and create

LIGHT!

OOPS! I did it again.

Back to Elliott and Mari. If I keep this up I'm gonna end up with a bad case of the

frizzes.

I don't know why Mari jumped Elliot's bones. As far as I can figure, she never jumped Hector's bones. I doubt she was even tempted, but jumping Elliot's bones certainly did liven things up around here.

Once the bone-jumping bit happened, Mari just about dropped off the

face of the mountain. Oh I did see her, from a distance every so often, during the months prior to the bone jumping. When my new owner was gone from home, Mari'd slip out of her place, head high into the mountains and return long before he got back, her

wheelbarrow teeming with newly cut

wood logs.

But after the bone-jumping...

The shutters were closed ALL the time, and the wheelbarrow remained sequestered in the

tool shed.

I am not an eavesdropper, normally, but since parts of my life's blood travels through the cabin's

wiring system, I couldn't help but pick up on Elliott's increasing angst over Mari's disappearance.

When I was a little live-wire, I heard human

bone-jumping is a lot like taking two of our exposed wires, letting them touch and watching the sparks zing about: hard to resist.

Elliott was certainly acting like a guy who needed his zing back.

I don't honestly know how he figured out the best way to get that zing crackling, he's not the most...adept at house stuff...but "Holy Burn My Britches, Human" oooh what he did!

Oh My will you look at the time!

Sorry I can't stay long enough to tell you all about it. I guarantee it'll make your own circuitry go

"tilt-tilt-tilty-woohoo!"

But I got to get back to my box before Elliott gets home. Now that he knows who we are and

what we are, it's best he not learn how easily we travel.

Anyway, I had a real

charge talking with you. If you want to know more, well, L.J. Holmes wrote a comprehensive report on it all. It'll be available this coming June from

Muse It Hot Publishing.

And now I really must hop, skip, and sizzle my way back home.

Happy Sparking Everyone!

EM has left in a frying rush, but he left his business card behind.

He can be found prominently in IN FROM THE COLD available in June 2011 from

Muse It Hot Publishing as recorded by

L.J. Holmes, and...

CUT!

Great Interview everyone. What a whizz!

Check Out the current Releases!

All these great books are now available at our bookstore.


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Becoming NADIA



Book One in The NADIA Project





Author: Cyrus Keith





Genre: Thriller



Pages: 299



ISBN: 978-1-926931-54-8


Blurb:



“What’s one more little white lie?”



There's only one thing that pretty, popular TV reporter Nadia Velasquez is missing: her memory from before the explosion that killed everyone else in the room, including the President of Nigeria. But from the moment she meets FBI agent Jon Daniels, all hell breaks loose. Friends turn into deadly enemies overnight, and no one can be truly trusted.



When Jon and Nadia investigate further, they discover the living terror that is the truth behind Nadia's existence, a truth that could mean the death of millions.









Odessa



part of the Seraphym Wars series





Author: Rebecca Ryals Russell



Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Sci-fi



Pages: 272



ISBN: 978-1-926931-60-9


Blurb:



Myrna Ashlin Watts graduated from High School in Jacksonville, Fl just in time to find herself transported to a bizarre and primal planet corrupted by demon-dragons. And they want her DEAD. Her problem is she has been recruited to kill them, too.



18-year-old Myrna is drawn into the middle of an epic battle between Seraphym and Demons. An average High School student from Florida, struggling with inner demons resulting from a rape two years earlier, she wakes one morning on the Steampunk planet of Dracwald, home of the demon-dragons responsible for her brother’s recent murder as well as many other atrocities in the news. She meets Michael, who becomes her guide and explains that according to prophecy, Myrna must gather the remaining six Vigorios (teen warriors with special talents) then train with the Majikals on an enchanted island.



Reluctantly, and knowing it is her only way to get back home, she agrees to lead, battling dragons and monsters while crossing swamps and mountains, forests and seas. She wrangles with the old inner demons when three very different men join her quest—a seasoned demon/dragon-slayer who irritates but beguiles her, a tender and sweet mentor in whom she trusts completely and a roguishly handsome Scientist who sets her senses aflame. How is she expected to lead the others and keep everyone safe with so much inner turmoil?



Will love and lust, jealousy, greed, deceit and distrust break the delicate tie that binds these teen warriors called The Vigorios? Can a troupe of teens help the Seraphym finally defeat the massive empire of evil dominated for eons by the demon-dragons of Dracwald?









The Chameleon's Bite



Author: Erika Gilbert



Genre: Humorous Urban Fantasy



Pages: 202



ISBN: 978-1-926931-48-7


Blurb:



A part Greek goddess with an indestructible sword is hunted by a deadly Chameleon. Her biggest challenge, however, might just be the man she loves: the Dark Elf assassin sent to kill her.









Primordial Sun, Heart of the Amazon



Author: Karen McGrath



Genre: Paranormal Romance Mystery



Pages: 187



ISBN: 978-1-926931-62-3


Blurb:

Kylie Watson is a lawyer in Boston, MA, whose emotional life is in disarray. She’s entirely too dependent on her childhood pals. Her surrogate siblings step into protector roles for her when her universe is rocked by her missionary parent’s deaths in a plane crash in the Amazon - sending Kylie on a quest for personal freedom in her season of mourning.



In the midst of her loss and grief, someone is stalking her and leaving a trail of clues in their wake. Kylie is driven by chronic nightmares that begin the night of the accident.





Traveling to the world she left behind as a teen, Kylie runs to Brazil to be close to the last place her parents lived. From the historic town of Boston to the fish markets in Manaus to the tropics in the Amazon, she discovers family secrets, church corruption and international espionage.



As Kylie navigates the waters of Brazil and the streams of her heart, she encounters the three loves of her life; one whose presence makes everything right but seems just out of reach, one whose money and power can keep her but repulses her at times, and one whose fiery passion forces her to face reality and scares her to death.



Which man will pursue her and why? Were her parents murdered? If so, by whom? What was their connection to the new tribe translations that is strangely forbidden by the Missionary Alliance Board? What is it that Kylie really wants?



When all is said and done, worlds collide and produce a new reality for Kylie.



Nothing is what it seems.



Do you want the truth or something you can live with?



Primordial Sun, The Heart of the Amazon









Frozen



Book One in the Artica Lights series





Author: Kat Holmes



Genre: Paranormal Romance Erotica



Pages: 64



ISBN: 978-1-926931-46-3


Blurb:



Brent Larkin came to Antarctica to study penguins. He didn’t come looking for either adventure or romance. But when a freak storm blows in and he loses his way, that’s exactly what he gets. Attacked by some bobbing lights, he suddenly finds himself in a wintry forest surrounded by men with swords pointed at him. The next thing he knows he’s in a dungeon and chained to the wall.



Awni is the queen of Artica, a land of eternal winter. The daughter of a god, Awni’s cursed to never know the touch of another. Her icy skin is death for anyone who dares to touch her flesh. But, when a mysterious stranger shows up in her lands, she finds herself drawn to him. Eager to learn about his world, she invites him to spend time with her only to be shocked when he touches her and doesn’t freeze to death.



But Artica is a land ruled by tradition. Though she longs to keep Brent with her, the laws of the land force her to send him home. But without him, both she and the land begin to suffer. Now, Awni is facing the same peril as one of her ancestors. And if she perishes like her ancestor did, all of Artica will pay the price. Can Brent, returned to his own world, somehow find his way back and save her before all is lost?