Got a great love story? Quirk Books is looking for you
Have you been sitting on the manuscript of a great love story?
Then it鈥檚 time to dust it off. Publisher Quirk Books is hosting a contest titled 鈥淟ooking for Love.鈥� The first place winner will have his or her book published by Quirk and will receive $10,000.
Quirk Books wrote on their website that they examined their catalog and saw one important genre missing: romance. The publishing company has previously released such bestselling novels as 鈥�Pride and Prejudice and Zombies鈥� and 鈥淢iss Peregrine鈥檚 Home for Peculiar Children.鈥�
鈥淟ooking back at all the weird and wonderful books we've published, we can't help but ask ourselves.... where is the love?鈥� the asked.
The contest is open from June 1 to Oct. 1 and contestants can be either previously published authors or newbies to the writing game. Manuscripts must be at least 50,000 words, in English. Paper copies (yes, these are required) should be mailed to Quirk Books. (To check out the other rules, take a look at Quirk Books鈥� .)
And note to 鈥淭wilight鈥� fans: There鈥檚 one other rule as well.
鈥�We鈥檙e looking for love stories that are fresh, fun, and strikingly unconventional,鈥� the publisher wrote of the contest. 鈥淏oy Meets Girl. Girl Meets Girl. Girl Meets Shark. Shark Meets Pirate. Anything goes! Except vampires. Sorry.鈥�
