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Got what it takes to create a Choc Lit hero? Could you be our first Australian Author?
The competition is now closed, the winner will be announced in December. Good luck to all those that have entered!
We’re looking to add some Aussie heat and glamour to our tasty selection of fiction and we’d like to find the next Australian star author. Dream of being published internationally? Write romance with irresistible heroes? Then this could be for you.
All submissions must meet our submission criteria below and be received before 31st August 2012. The winner will be announced December 2012. To be eligible to enter our Search for an Australian Star competition, you must live in Australia.
Please ensure you read our Submission Criteria and follow our Submission Guidelines below before you submit to us.
Submission Criteria
Your novel must be:
romantic fiction which must include the hero’s (male) point of view
for an adult audience
70,000 to 100,000 words long
in English
completed – we can’t consider works in progress
previously unpublished
not currently accepted by any other publisher or agent
contemporary, historical, mystery, paranormal, etc.
professionally assessed, if you’re not a member of the Romance Writers of Australia.
We’re not looking for erotic fiction, although sex scenes that develop the plot are fine by us!
Submission Guidelines
If you meet the above criteria, please send us a synopsis in an email to submissions@choc-lit.com. Please do not send as an attachment as your email will be lost in our spam folder and you won’t get a response!
Remember that a synopsis provides the whole story of your novel in a nutshell – the main characters, their motivations and a summary of the plot, including the ending. Please also add a paragraph about yourself to include any writing experience, contests won, social media activity and web presence. It’s important to sell your story and yourself - you only get one chance! If you’re an unpublished author and not a member of the Romance Writers of Australia, please state the manuscript assessment service used.
Please do not send unsolicited submissions by post you will not get a response from us. Unfortunately, we do not have the manpower to read manuscripts by post or the time to respond. Please ensure you follow the procedures outlined above.
If we feel your synopsis has met our Choc Lit hero tastes we will request, via email, that you complete our Submission Form and submit this together with your complete novel in MS Word or RTF (text file). Please present these as professionally as possible – there are lots of pointers available on websites such as the Romance Writers of Australia. We also recommend Choc Lit author and creative writing tutor, Sue Moorcroft’s Manuscript Presentation Tips here. (All submissions will be reviewed in the first instance by our Choc Lit Tasting Panel, independent readers who can be quite picky about badly presented manuscripts. Don’t give them an excuse to reject.)
We will email you promptly to say we’ve received your submission. The winner of the Search for an Australian Star competition will be announced in December. The overall winner will be chosen with the help of the Australian Romance Readers Association’s members.
The successful candidate will go on to be published and join our team of Choc Lit authors. Choc Lit novels are distributed worldwide including Australia both in print and digitally.
