Announcements

Please note: If you have not yet received a response for your submission sent prior to April 1, 2008, please inquire.

Drollerie Press will be closed to submissions from August 1, 2008 through January 1, 2009.

We’re working on getting more of our books out in print and releasing many of our books in audio format. As a result, and due to a large influx of submissions, we are having to close the submissions doors for a short period while we get caught up.

When we are open to submission, we accept:

  • Short stories from 5,000 to 15,000 words
  • Novelettes between 15,001 to 35,000 words
  • Novellas between 35,001 to about 50,000 words
  • and Novels, between about 50,001 to 85,000 or more words

We are strongly committed to publishing works by diverse authors for a diverse audience. We are eager to receive submissions from authors of all sexes, orientations, races, ethnicities, and religions.

Little Red Riding Hood

The final decisions have been made for the Little Red Riding Hood Anthology. If you have not received notification regarding your submission, please inquire to deena@drolleriepress.com.  We expect to release the ebook of this anthology in September and the print version in 2009.

Maiden Mother Crone

Submissions are closed for this anthology.  Responses will be sent out in mid-August.

Our Imprints

We have been honored to have added some truly dedicated and talented editors to our pool. We are currently accepting for our imprints based on genre. While your story must always contain some mythic fictional elements, please choose the most appropriate imprint editor to receive your submission. Please do not submit to more than one imprint editor. If an editor feels that your work is better suited to a different imprint, he or she will forward it to the appropriate editor. For additional submissions guidance by genre, please review the appropriate page linked in the navigation menu to the right.

Drollerie Press publishes our stories through a number of “lines” or “imprints” to help our readers better find the books they want to read.

Drollerie Press: For fantasy works, including urban fantasy, myths, legends, and fairy tales, please submit to submissions @ drolleriepress.com.

Chrysography: If you consider your work literary or poetic in nature, please submit it to submissions @ chrysography.com.

 Gauffer Press: If your work of mythic fiction resides primarily in the areas of suspense, thrillers and mysteries, please submit to submissions @ gaufferpress.com.

Grotesqueries: for mythic works of a horrific or dark speculative bent, please submit to submissions @ grotesqueries.com.

Quadrivium: If your work fits within the genre of science fiction, please submit it to submissions @ quadriviumpress.com.

Kettlestitch: If your work is intended for audiences between the ages of 14 and adult with sophisticated conflict and intelligent, engaging characters between the ages of 16 and 19, please submit it to submissions @ kettlestitchpress.com.

Pen Flourish: for erotica, that is works including explicit sexual content where the story is powered or driven by the sexual activity and the story would not be complete without it–a happy ending or happy ever after is not required–please submit to submissions @ penflourish.com.

Illuminated Press: for romance, that is works that may or may not include sexual content from erotic to fade-to-black, but where the focus of the story is on the development of one or more loving and romantic relationships and includes a happily-ever-after or happy-for-now ending, please submit your story to submissions @ illuminatedpress.com.

We are committed to publishing diverse works by talented authors regardless of race, sex, creed, religion or orientiation. Please feel free to submit your work with a strong point of view and we will be pleased to consider it for publication.

 If you have a story that does not fall within the guidelines of the imprints described above or you’re not sure where to send it, please continue to submit to submissions @ drolleriepress.com.

Please review the submissions guidelines carefully. We are still receiving works that are formatted with unusual fonts and spacing, without page numbers, author name, and title on every page, and that do not fall within our guidelines. Please note: We no longer read submissions that do not demonstrate that a reasonable attempt has been made to follow our guidelines.