Novel Manuscripts
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 The following list will not be published by Temptation Press: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.
