Dorchester Books Actively Acquiring for New Line

Dorchester Books is actively acquiring for a new line of speculative romance aimed at a “younger, hipper audience.” Shomi books will debut in July 2007 and will feature paranormal, futuristic or fantasy romances with “a noir-like narrative voice and a heroine caught between realms.” The books have Manga-like graphic covers.

Senior Editor Chris Keeslar is editing the line. Books should be 85,000 to 95,000 words. Dorchester accepts agented and unagented material.

Please send a cover letter telling the genre, word-count and one paragraph summarizing the book, a synopsis of the complete book, and the first three chapters. The cover letter should be “short and sweet.” Some of the books they’ve already acquired for the line include a “post-apocalyptic trucker romance - set during a future time when the highway system is the only mode of travel” and a book dealing with “time travel and the consequences of time travel (think - the Butterfly Effect).”

Check out the website at http://www.shomifiction.com/index.html

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