Welcome to the combined Submissions Portal for Zimbell House Publishing, Chipper Press, and Temptation Press.
Whether you are submitting your work to one of our Anthologies or sending us your completed manuscript for possible publication … We have a few guidelines:
Submission Guidelines:
For Manuscripts:
- Formatting: Please submit your work in either Microsoft Word format or RTF. Double-spaced, 12 point font, with one inch margins. No Headers or footers and please use a simple font, our acquisitions editorial staff will appreciate it. (No hard copies will be accepted.)
- All submissions must be in English.
- Your Name, Pen Name, and Contact Info should be in the upper left hand corner of the document. Doing so makes it that much easier to contact you.
- Please only submit your best work. This means to be certain you have resolved most spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors before submitting.
- Please allow eight to twelve weeks for an evaluation of your work to be returned to you. Our entire acquisitions team needs to review your work before a decision is made.
For Anthologies & Literary Journals:
- Word Counts will vary for different anthologies. Please see the specific anthology for word counts to prevent auto declining your work.
- The work must not have appeared in print anywhere before (Yes, this includes electronic forms).
- All submissions must be in English.
- Each author may submit up to five (5) unique works per anthology or journal. However, they must be separate submissions.
- Submission must include a head-shot in .jpg format, and a brief bio (under 100 words).
- Work must be in Microsoft Word or RTF, double spaced, 12 point font (Times New Roman is best), one inch margins, and no headers/footers.
- Try to use Americanized spelling.
- Dialog must use double quotes, not single.
- Please note that submissions are not read until after the deadline is reached. Determinations will be made within thirty (30) days after the deadline.
Thank you for submitting. We look forward to reading your work!
At this time, Zimbell House Publishing is not accepting academic works or graphic novels.
Please Note:
- If you are submitting a Children's chapbook, or middle-grade novel, please use the Chipper Press: Children's Manuscript submission category.
- If you are submitting poetry, please use the Specialty Manuscript submission category.
- If you are submitting an illustration heavy/photographic intensive manuscript, such as a coffee table book or cookbook, please use the category for Specialty Manuscript .
- Only completed manuscripts will be evaluated. Our acquisitions team feels it is the only way to give an accurate evaluation of the work to writers seeking consideration for publication.
- Once a manuscript has been evaluated (approximately eight to twelve weeks), an offer may be presented to the author to enter into a partnership with Zimbell House Publishing to finalize the manuscript, bring it to publication, and jointly market the work.
Temptation Press is the erotica-romance imprint for Zimbell House Publishing.
Please Note:
- Only completed manuscripts will be evaluated. Our acquisitions team feels it is the only way to give an accurate evaluation of the work to writers seeking consideration for publication.
- Once a manuscript has been evaluated (approximately eight to twelve weeks), an offer may be presented to the author to enter into a partnership with Temptation Press to finalize the manuscript, bring it to publication, and jointly market the work.
Guidelines for consideration:
Temptation Press allows for a fair stretch of leeway when it comes to an author’s creativity, and will consider most storylines, but … we do have standards! The following list will not be published by Temptation Press:
- Pedophilia. This means that all characters involved in a sexual situation must be at a bare minimum of 18 years of age. We don’t care what historical period the story is set in.
- Necrophilia. No sex with a corpse please – of course, Vampires are not technically dead, they are undead. Snuff scenes will not be accepted, nor will erotic asphyxiation.
- Rape. It’s understood that rape may sometimes be used as part of a plot-line, or a character’s backstory, but if it is used for the purpose of stimulating your reader-we will decline your manuscript. Do not use descriptive rape scenes.
- Bodily functions. i.e. Golden Showers, toilet play, or anything closely related. Just no.
- Bestiality. As Vampires are not considered dead, Shape-shifters are not considered beasts. However, characters can not have relations unless they are in the same form.
- Incest. This includes step-relatives.
- Snowballing/Felching. Just no.
- Only completed manuscripts will be evaluated. Our acquisitions team feels it is the only way to give an accurate evaluation of the work to writers seeking consideration for publication.
- Please upload images as separate files.
- Once a manuscript has been evaluated (approximately eight to twelve weeks), an offer may be presented to the author to enter into a partnership with Zimbell House Publishing to finalize the manuscript, bring it to publication, and jointly market the work.
Please Note: Chipper Press is not accepting Children's picture books at this time. The only children's books we are accepting are Chap Books, for ages 8 and up, and middle-grade novels. If you have a YA (young adult) novel, please submit under the Novel section for Zimbell House Publishing.
- Only completed manuscripts will be evaluated. Our acquisitions team feels it is the only way to give an accurate evaluation of the work to writers seeking consideration for publication.
- Once a manuscript has been evaluated (approximately eight to twelve weeks), an offer may be presented to the writer to enter into a partnership with Zimbell House Publishing to finalize the manuscript and bring it to publication.