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Please DO NOT send complete manuscripts unless we request them. If we do request a complete manuscript, it should be formatted in the same manner as stated above and also sent as a plain text (.txt) or rich text (.rtf) file.
Submissions not following the above guidelines will not be considered.
Response Time
Logical-Lust will send an email confirming that we received your submission, usually within a day. If you receive no confirmation email, that means we have not received your submission, for whatever technical reason. Please try again, or send a query to editor(at)logical-lust.com for information.
After the receipt of your initial submission, please allow a minimum of three weeks for us to review your submission and to reach a decision. If you have not heard from us in that time, please feel free to contact us for a status report.
For complete manuscripts, please allow eight weeks for a decision.
Marketing
Prior to the offer of any contract, we require a marketing plan for manuscripts we intend to publish. We expect contracted authors to be fully active in the promotion of their books. Click here for a sample plan.
Editing & Acceptance
Please closely edit your work before submitting to Logical-Lust, even if it means obtaining third-party assistance. Unedited, or poorly edited submissions, will be dismissed without further consideration.
If your submission is not chosen, you may request—without charge—general feedback from our editors about your submission.
NOTE: While editorial comments on rejected submissions are intended to help, they are not to be construed as being conditional to future acceptance. Logical-Lust must judge every submission on its own merits and any communications outside of a contract shall not be entered into. This general feedback is a one-time offer for those who request it.
Editing of submissions after acceptance is considered part of the acceptance, and the editors reserve the right to edit content and length of any submission prior to publication. However, it is not our intention to alter an individual’s writing or style. Editing would only be done if the editor felt it was in the author’s and/or Logical-Lust’s best interests. The editors reserve the right not to accept any submission.
In rare cases, where no final edits can be agreed upon and/or either party wishes to withdraw/reject the submission, only the rights to the submission in its ORIGINAL form are returned to the author. All edits done under contract by our editors are copyright of Logical-Lust and LL-Publications, therefor the rights to those edits remain with us and only the submission in its ORIGINAL form is the property of the author. Authors can, however, retain all of the edits by paying a standard editing fee. No partial edits can be purchased.
Rights
Logical-Lust (LL-Publications) will retain worldwide digital and print rights, which will be exclusive for 730 days from the date of publication, and will retain non-exclusive worldwide digital and print rights after this period unless the author chooses not to extend the contract. If the contract is extended, the author retains secondary rights to his/her work.
View our full contract wording
Payment terms
For novels/single author collections our standard royalty terms are:
Print: 22.5% of the cover price for books sold directly from our own sources. 7.5% of the cover price for books sold from sources requiring distributor discounts.
Digital (ebook): 55% of the retail download price for sales through our own sources. An equal share of the net income after discount for sales from sources that require distributor discounts.
For multi-author anthologies submitted by one person acting as a compiler and an agent for all the authors involved, we pay the royalty to that agent for the right to publish the material, while authors retain ownership of their work. The anthology agent must provide written proof of consent by all authors they represent, stating that they've granted the agent permission to include their work in the anthology. Responsibility for payment to individual authors lies with said agent, and not with us.
Content Restrictions & Requirements
Submissions containing story lines or factual events involving the following will not be accepted: rape or any non-consensual sexual acts, sex with persons under age 18, incest, bestiality, hate, racism, necrophilia, golden showers, scat/dirt play, or any other material subsequently deemed unsuitable for Logical-Lust.
However, these topics/issues may be related in reference to crimes or mentioned in passing as part of a character's experiences, but they may not be glamorized or vividly described for the purpose of titillation. Nevertheless, Logical-Lust reserves the right to reject submissions containing such material if we feel it's inappropriate.
All sexual content must have clear indication or implication that consent exists, especially in BDSM and role-playing story lines. Consent after-the-fact is not acceptable. Some erotic works can push boundaries and certain aspects of non-consent may be carefully included. But bear in mind, the editor’s decision will be final as to which submissions are acceptable. If in doubt, please send a query to editor(at)logical-lust.com .
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