Do you write Young Adult Romance? Sweet Romance? Christian or Inspirational Romance?
Then check out the new imprint in town.

Let’s start with a little Q&A. I interviewed Linda at Blue Swan Publishing.

What inspired you to start the imprint?

I’ve been exploring the possibility of starting this imprint for a number of years.  In the early day of epublishing, back when I started in the late 90’s, I had all genres available at our original store, Atlantic Bridge Publishing.  Ebooks just had not taken off and it wasn’t going to be for some year to come, that they would.  I knew sooner or later it would and just stayed the course, stayed conservative, and waited.  It became obvious after a few years, that like with many things on the Internet, it was best to focus on one specific area, specialize in it, so to speak.  Romance has always been the number one seller in books and it was also online, so I began an imprint for it.  However, the second largest selling genre is Inspirational and that is still the case.

What do you look for in the books and authors you acquire?

The story has to be one that grabs the reader from the first chapter.  But it’s more than that, it must keep the reader engaged throughout.  We look for strong characters, those readers will relate to and enjoy.

How do you support authors through the publishing process?

We assign an editor who will work with the author through the process of honing the book for production, but never edit out the author’s voice.  An author has input to their cover art.  We are available for questions and we keep communication open throughout the approximately four month process.

How do you promote the books in your catalog?

We encourage authors to promote themselves.  What we have always done is promote the company overall.  We further partner with other organizations that get our catalog in all the viable distribution outlets.  The absolutely best promotion an author can do is simply write another book.  In all the years of publishing and see the variety of promotional avenues taken by authors and us alike, the best route to becoming known and have a following is to be prolific in the books written and stay in the genres that sell the best.

Here are the Details!

Blue Swan Publishing is actively seeking Inspirational and Christian and Sweet themed manuscripts, contemporary to Historical to cover our romance genre at Blue Swan Publishing. Think Hallmark Hall of Fame, Janette Oke, Little House on the Prairie, etc. We are looking for sweet, traditional romance with strong, irresistible characters. Romance at its best with endless possibilities of love, life, and happiness. Manuscripts must be at least 15k.

Blue Swan is also looking for great reads that are not romance. We are also seeking Mysteries/suspense, Thrillers, Science Fiction, Fantasy genres that fall under that inspirational umbrella. Many of the End Time or Apocalypse books fall under the Science Fiction sub-genre.

And finally, we are also seeking manuscripts in the Young Adult category of all genres.
We will also consider previously published books.

Blue Swan Publishing is a full service, royalty paying eBook Publisher, an imprint of Ten West Publishing. Other publishing companies owned by Ten West include Atlantic Bridge Publishing and Liquid Silver Books. New imprint with an experienced publishing team to support you.

Blue Swan’s full service includes the following:

• Editing
• Final line editing and proofreading
• Cover art
• ISBN number
• Digital publishing

Our standard contract is for worldwide, English, digital rights for two years. We pay 40% royalties on net monies received from sales in all outlets. If you are interested in submitting your manuscript to Blue Swan Publishing, please take a few minutes to review the following and acquaint yourself with our guidelines:

Your Query Email Must Include:

• Cover letter.       Make it interesting, tell us why we’ll love your manuscript.
• Word count (15k or above), brief synopsis and information about yourself.
• Author’s pen name
• Author’s real legal name
• Snail mail address
• Phone number
• Website or blog link (if available)
• Email address
• Title

The entire manuscript must be sent as an email attachment in .DOC, .DOCX or RTF

For the submission email address and other additional information please check out their website: http://blueswanpublishing.com/