If interested in submitting, please keep the following in mind:

Accentuate is not looking for pornography, neither are we looking for romance. What we seek is something somewhere in the middle: romance with a heat level that sizzles, while still telling a great story!

What we want:

* Fantastic sex scenes
* A story that is compelling and punctuated with fantastic sex scenes
* Intimacy and sexuality
* Sizzling sexual heat levels
* Believable, complete characters and character development
* Believable, complete story and story development
* Quality writing that is well-edited and as close to publication-ready as possible

What's Acceptable:

* Consensual sex between adult characters
* Straight, gay, bisexual sexual activity
* Alternative sexual lifestyles or activity (BDSM, etc)
* Kink and intrigue or straight and narrow with heat
* Thinking outside the box (or in this case, the bed)
* Covertly 'illegal' sexual activity

What's not Acceptable:

* Non-consensual rape or physical/sexual absue
* Non-consensual sexual activity (including sex while drugged or intoxicated where consent is not obvious)
* Anything involving people below legal adult age (18 is minimum)
* Overtly illegal sexual activity

When writing, keep three main things in mind: Heat, Legality, Consensuality

We understand that, for some people, things like rape-play and fantasy scenes of violence and rape are perfectly acceptable sexual practices. However, for this particular anthology project, there should be absolutely no mistaking that all parties involved in any sexual activity are 100% willing and able to consent to that activity.

Payment:

Author will receive an offer for advance, ranging from $10 to $250 per story, as well as being offered a royalty paying contract based on the final edited word count percentage of their story versus the entire word count of the anthology. Author will receive royalty statements every quarter, for as long as the book is in print.

If you're interested in submitting, please click the link on the menu to read the Submission Guidelines, and send us your best work, following the guidelines outlined. We try to respond to all submissions within 6 weeks. Our goal is to put out one erotic anthology in 2009, two in 2010, and four in 2011 and beyond. Writers can use a pseudonym for their writing, but legal names will be required on the contracts. Legal names are not required during the submissions phase; we will only ask this information if we choose to extend a contract to you. The publisher and its managing editor are the only people who know your true identity. Sometimes, erotic writing requires decorum.