Hard As Stone: Dwarven Erotica
Editor: Julie Cox
Publisher: Circlet Press
Deadline: March 1, 2014
Payment: We purchase first rights for inclusion in the ebook anthology for $25
In these modern post-Hobbit days, it is high time we as a culture acknowledged one simple truth: dwarves can, in fact, be smokin’ hot. From the deep, rich and remote places of the world come legends of these fascinating beings: earthen men and women, fae kings, great metal workers and miners, mighty warriors, they are compact but virulent mythological figures. Send me stories of your dwarven nobility, cloaked in jewels dug from the heart of the earth, balancing their riches with their lust for flesh. Send me miners and tinkerers, digging through the mighty rivers of ore, alone in the dark … or with another. Send us star-crossed love across the races, or faerie tales retold. Dwarves appear in high fantasy, urban fantasy, steampunk, cyberpunk, magical realism and more. Love is not always young, and tall, and willowy, and beautiful. Love can be robust, hearty, hardworking, bearded and short. And still beautiful, in its own way.
All sexualities and gender expressions are welcomed. (Please note: original characters and settings only. Please do not infringe upon Tolkien or any other copyrighted work.)
This ebook anthology is being edited by Julie Cox for Circlet Press. Julie is the author of Chasing Tail, as well as the online serial Capricious and many erotic short stories.
For submission details, read on.
Length: Preferred length for this book is approximately 3000 to 6000 words, but we will consider the range from 2000 to 8,000 words. Query if you have something outside those ranges that seems otherwise fitting.
How to Submit: All submissions must be made via email to Julie Cox, editor, at the following email address: jcox.circlet@gmail.com
*IMPORTANT SUBMISSION DETAILS FOR ALL ANTHOLOGIES LISTED:
Only email submissions are accepted. Submissions sent to other addresses/other editors at Circlet Press will not be considered. Standard manuscript formatting rules apply even though sending as an attachment (MS Word .doc preferred). Please note that this means your name, address, and email contact must appear on the manuscript itself and not simply in your email message. (If you’re not sure what a standard short story submission format should look like, Google is your friend.)
No simultaneous submissions (that is, don’t also send your story elsewhere at the same time, and don’t send it to multiple Circlet editors, either), and no multiple submissions – wait to hear back on the first story before sending a second.
All stories must include explicit sexuality and erotic focus. Romantic content is welcome, but in a short story remember to keep the details on the action and its effects on the main character’s internal point of view. We favor a strong, singular narrative voice (no ‘head hopping’ or swapping between different character’s points of view within a scene). For more details on our editorial preferences, see the general submission guidelines on circlet.com. We highly recommend reading the guidelines, especially the “do not send” list, to increase your chances of sending us something we’ll love. Try to avoid cliches. Fresh and direct language is preferred to overly euphemistic. Sex-positive, please, no rape/nonconsensuality/necrophilia or other purposefully gross topics. We do not publish horror.
Originals only, no reprints. We purchase first rights for inclusion in the ebook anthology at $25, with the additional rights to a print edition later for an additional payment of the same amount if a print edition happens. Authors retain the rights to the individual stories; Circlet exercises rights to the anthology as a whole.
