Choc Lit

Where heroes are like chocolate - irresistible!

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Flavours (Genres):

Authors

Choc Lit Authors
Juliet Archer
Christina Courtenay
Margaret James
Jane Lovering

Sue Moorcroft
Christine Stovell

Other Featured Authors:
Catherine Alliott
Jane Austen
Sally Beauman
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Barbara Erskine
Katie Fforde
Diana Gabaldon
Elizabeth Gaskell
Colleen Gleason
Winston Graham
Melinda Hammond
Thomas Hardy
Georgette Heyer
Linda Howard
Annette Curtis Klause
Carole Matthews
Stephenie Meyer
Melissa Nathan
Abigail Reynolds
Nevil Shute
Dodie Smith
Wendy Soliman
Lauren Willig
Josa Young

Choc Lit
Flavour of the Month Award

Give your feedback, review our books. Allocate a  Choc Lit heart rating. Tell us about any books you’d like to see featured here. Describe the hero in terms of chocolate and you could win our Flavour of the Month Award.  
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Previous Features

A Town Like Alice
All You Need Is Love
Blood & Chocolate

Breaking Dawn
Cotillion
Cry No More
Dark Angel
Eclipse
Far From The Maddening Crowd
I Capture the Castle
Jane Eyre
Love Letters
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Midnight is a Lonely Place
Midnight Sun
Moonshadows
North and South
New Moon
One Apple Tasted
Poldark
Pride & Prejudice
Pride, Prejudice & Jasmin Field
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Persuading Annie
Pride & Prejudice
Starting Over
The Importance of Being Emma
The Rest Falls Away
The Secret History of The Pink Carnation
The Secret Life of Evie Hamilton
The Tollgate
Twilight
Wives and Daughters
Wuthering Heights
 

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Got what it takes to create a Choc Lit hero?

UNFORTUNATELY WE’RE CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSION FOR CONTEMPORARY FICTION OUR LIST IS NOW CLOSED. WE WILL RE-OPEN EARLY 2011. HOWEVER, WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR HISTORICAL AND PARANORMAL ROMANCES.

Please follow the guidelines below.
 

Submission Criteria

We’re looking for more heroes to add to our collection!
If you have a good story with a romance and an irresistible hero and you’re looking for a publisher, why not send it to us for consideration? Simply follow our submission guidelines below.

We’re looking for novels that are:

  • romantic fiction
  • must include the hero’s 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  • previously unpublished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, paranormal, mystery, etc.  - a story with a romance!

We’re not looking for erotic fiction, although sex scenes that develop the plot are fine by us!

Submission Guidelines

Our submission guidelines are as follows:

Authors
We strongly advise that you have your novel assessed before you send it to us, so that you have a chance to correct any obvious problems with your story or style. There are many people offering manuscript assessment services, including the Romantic Novelists’ Association which has a New Writers’ Scheme.
 
Once your novel is ready to be submitted, please send us a synopsis in an email to submissions@choclitpublishing.co.uk. 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 include a paragraph about yourself.

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 the online Choc Lit Submission Form and submit this together with your 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 Romantic Novelists’ Association. We will email you promptly to say we’ve received your submission and let you know our timescale for responding along with the next steps. We will either then accept or decline to publish your novel, subject to our agreed contract terms.

N.B.: As we are potentially making a substantial financial commitment, we like to interview our authors to see if they’re the sort of person we could work with.

We also like our authors to be proactive and help us by meeting any agreed deadlines and actively pursuing marketing/sales opportunities.
 

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For perfect examples of what makes a Choc Lit hero read our novels.

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