Inspiration - Publishers
You may have read my previous posts for where to find inspiration and thought, “Well, of course. I knew about those.” However, did you know that a great source of inspiration could be with the very people you would like to publish your work?
While wandering around publisher websites, as I am wont to do on occasion, I began investigating romance and erotica epublishers. While I don’t write romance and erotica exclusively, most of my pieces lately have fit squarely into that category.
As I checked submission guidelines and looked at authors who had already been published there, I started finding calls for submissions. One company was looking for stories that centered around ‘exotic’ romances with a heroine from the US…
Ding! Ding! Ding! Score one for fantastic inspiration.
I found a specific call for submissions and immediately an idea began forming in my mind. Now, I don’t know if I’ll have the piece done, edited and polished before the call is retracted, but that’s okay! For me, it’s just wonderful to be writing something that is almost writing itself.
As the final ‘P’ to the three ‘P’s of inspiration, I highly recommend you go to (and bookmark) as many publishers’ websites as possible. Not only will you narrow down possible publishers that you would like to submit your work to, you could just end up finding the inspiration you have been looking for all along.
Best of luck with your inspiration. As always, please let me know if you are being published. I always like to share good news.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Hey, you really surprised me with this one. Publishers, I’ve never thought about them as inspiration providers.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Hi Miguel. Thanks for stopping by. I was hoping to surprise a few people with this one, as it took me by surprise at the time.