Book Party!

Romance Rules!

If you haven't got plans for Sunday, drop by the Hearts Desire Press facebook page. We're having a party! There will be fun swag, some free ebooks, and some great choices in gift cards.

 

Here's the Link

 

We've got some great contemporary romances, romantic suspense, contemporary western suspense, urban fantasy, erotic romance, and some hot cowboy love to top things off. A little something for everyone.

 

We'd love to see you there!

 

 



 

Submission Call - Hearts Desire Press

PERMISSION TO FORWARD GRANTED

Overall, we’re fans of great storytelling, solid steamy romances, and powerful toe curling sexual tension regardless of whether the sex is on screen or behind closed doors. We’re open to romantic suspense, contemporary, paranormal, and urban fantasy, but there are a few things that we would love to see cross our desk:

 

• Everyone loves an athletic body and HDP is no exception to the rule! We crave romance that heats our blood and has us cheering like fanatics for the hero and heroine to score! Any sport will do! Football, baseball, hockey, and snowboarding are some of our favorite sports, but with summer coming up...we’re dying to see a romance that features a competitive surfer!

• Cowboys! Of course we’ve got a thing for great contemporary western romances with heart stopping cowboys. Give us a cowboy on the verge of losing everything and a heroine that can bring him to his knees.

• Paranormal or urban fantasy stories that feature angels, demons, witches, vampires, shifters, or Fae steeped in edge of your seat mayhem and romance that will leave us breathless.

• Military heroes! Some of us have grown up in military families and some of us are veterans. All of us are suckers for a man in uniform story.

• Time travel romance captivates us. Knights, Highlanders, or Egyptian Princesses showing up in unexpected places and discovering the love of their life in another time. We believe in everlasting romance.

As Hearts Desire Press does not publish young adult, new adult romance, or children's books, we will not be able to respond to submissions of such material. Please refer to the Hearts Desire Press Submission page for submission guidelines. This is an open call, there is no deadline.

 

We are a hybrid, royalty-paying publisher with unique offerings for authors. If you trust us with your work, and we contract it, here are some of the benefits you’ll receive as an HDP author. 

• Monthly payments/sales reporting so you can manage your writing business

• Royalty schedule that over time favors the author, not the publisher

• Author choice of digital only or digital and print, provided the work is at least 50k words

• Every title receives marketing/promotional support, commercial quality cover art, editing by industry professionals, formatting with premier industry design software, and will be published in a timely fashion. 

Authors these days need to have their stories in more than one venue to be successful. We get that. And we’re okay with it. Let us help you keep your career moving forward, in the direction YOU want it to go.

 Your success is our business!

Editors Required

Looking forward, 2014 is going to be an exciting year. Part of that excitement stems from the challenge and joy of building something amazing and working to make dreams come true. In that vein, Hearts Desire Press is looking to expand its team of Content Editors and Line Editors.

Content Editor Requirements: A solid understanding of GMC, POV and Grammar.

Line Editor Requirements: A thorough knowledge of Grammar and familiarity with the Chicago Manual of Style.

If you know of anyone who would be interested in becoming part of our team, and enjoy working with some fantastic authors I would appreciate it if you’d have them contact us.

Please put the position you are inquiring about in the subject line of your email. In the body of your email please give us a brief summary of your editing experience, the romance genres you prefer to edit, and how many authors you are willing to take on.

An application can be obtained by emailing employmentATheartsdesirepressDOTcom

Please feel free to share this with anyone you know who may be interested.

Wishing you happiness and much success in the New Year!

Hearts Desire Press

Just in case any of you are wondering where I’ve gone, or what I’m up to these days I can finally tell you! As my dream of working in the world of publishing continues to evolve, to that end I’m opening my own publishing company.

You can find it here:

Hearts Desire Press

Yes, we’re the new kid in this crazy ever-changing publishing world. And we’re a bit different. I wouldn’t go so far as to call us a hybrid, but I see our place in an author’s endeavor to build a writing career as one smoothly functioning part of a whole. Not the be-all-end-all goal of career building.

These days the smart, career focused author will have their eggs in many baskets, traditional publication, small press, and indie. I applaud that, and believe it’s entirely appropriate.

If as an author you find you like what we do at HDP, you’re welcome to publish with us for as little or as long as you like, but we understand that these days it takes more than one publishing experience to build a solid writing career.

Those of you who know me, know I’ve been self-employed for a long time. HDP isn’t my first trip around the business block. I know how hard you must to work to build success. And I can’t think of anything I’d rather do than work with those in the publishing world. So if you’re an editor, an author, or a marketing professional I’d appreciate it if you’d consider working with Hearts Desire Press in the future.

Beyond the Winner's Circle

Happy Monday, Everyone!

Just a quick note to let you know that the second book in my Cameron Motorsports series, Beyond the Winner's Circle (formerly known as Center Ring) is now available. It has a shiny new cover, it's been re-edited and spiffed up. Here's the new blurb:

BUY IT HERE

Two desperate souls entwined by murder, set free by passion.

After inheriting billions, auto-racing heiress, Julia Cameron, is under investigation by the police for the deaths of her adoptive parents. Growing up on the streets has given Julia a deep distrust of the law, now she’s determined to take justice into her own hands and find the real killer.

Scarred from a nasty divorce, ex-cop, Roane Jameson, is through with lying, scheming women. Assigned as Julia’s bodyguard, he believes she is just one more—this time trying to get away with murder. But the poor little rich girl turns out to be a smart, savvy woman who’ll do whatever it takes to protect those she loves, even allow a former cop into her life.

It isn’t long before Roane realizes Julia is innocent, there’s a murderer on the loose, and he’s coming after her. Now the race is on, and Roane and Julia must work together to find a killer. A happy ending doesn’t seem to be on track for these two, will they find love Beyond the Winner’s Circle?

If you enjoy romantic suspense, you might want to give this a try.