Carina Press’ (Harlequin) New Adult Book Blitz with Xpresso Book Tours
New Adult at Carina Press
It’s submissions week at Carina Press! Every day this week,
we’ll have a new call for submissions. Friday will be a special
opportunity, for one week only, for all authors sending submissions to
Carina Press. I suggest holding your submission to send after you read
the blog post that day (but that’s up to you, don’t say I didn’t warn
you!) We’ve also updated our submissions guidelines, so please be sure to read the new information and guidelines before submitting.
Carina Press is now accepting submissions in the new adult genre. We
are looking for submissions with a strong story and fully developed,
very definable protagonists, 18 and above (or at an age eligible to
enter college), in their early to mid-20s. While at least one
protagonist should fall in this age range, it is possible the other
protagonist may fall in their upper 20s.
Story elements should be targeted to an adult, not teen audience, and
should contain adult contemporary themes, frank, modern language, high
relationship drama and intense conflict. Characters actions, dress and
dialogue should all be age-appropriate. Think of the relationship drama
of the college years and run with that!
Other elements that work in this genre (but are not required to be
considered for publication) include increased sensuality, love
triangles, protagonists with traumatic events in their background, and
protagonists who have celebrity status–actors, musicians, athletes, etc.
(Please do not use real celebrities).
Stories can be stand alone or part of a series. For those that are
part of a series, please also submit a series overview–a brief, one-page
outline of future books or plot elements.
As we are seeking romances, these stories should contain a happily
ever after or happily for now. If the relationship takes place over the
course of several books and the HEA will occur in a later book, please
submit a series overview as stated above.
We’re looking for manuscripts of 50,000 words and up and though we
are particularly interested in the contemporary genre, we will also
consider books in other sub genres as well (such as paranormal, post
apocalyptic, dystopian, etc)
Editors for this genre will be Angela James, Rhonda Helms and Mallory Braus.
For a further explanation of New Adult, please see this interview I
did on the Harlequin blog:
http://harlequinblog.com/2013/01/exploring-the-new-adult-genre/
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