Welcome to the Dorchester Publishing Spotlight Presentation

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Welcome to the Dorchester Publishing Spotlight
Presentation

• Presented by
• Chris Keeslar, Senior Editor

www.dorchesterpub.com
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WHO WE ARE

• An independent publisher of mass-market genre
  fiction, including Romance, Westerns, Thrillers,
  and Horror. Imprints include Leisure Books and
  Love Spell.
• Titles found wherever books are soldBN,
  Borders, Books A Million, Wal-Mart, Target,
  Kmart, drug stores, grocery stores, airports,
  etc.
• Dedicated to innovation
• A family of coworkers and authors, striving to
  give personal attention and the best marketshare
  possible to everyone on our list

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BUILDING BESTSELLERS
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WE ? NEW VOICES
In 2009, we have 12 first-time authors on our
Romance list
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Become Americas NextBest Celler
Dorchester has partnered with TextNovel.com to
award a contract to a romance author

• Register at TextNovel.com and post 500-word
  installments of your story
• Readers can subscribe via email or cell phone
  and vote on their favorites
• Must have at least 6000 words of a complete
  manuscript posted by Nov. 1 to be considered as a
  finalist
• See details at www.dorchesterpub.com.

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FOSTERING TOMORROWS TALENT

• New Writers Corner at dorchesterpub.com offers
  tips on how to avoid the slush pile, find a
  critique partner, or build name recognition
  before youre published.
• Editors will soon be offering a query critique on
  the Dorchester message boards. Stay tuned for
  details.
• Daily info on industry trends, news, acquisitions
  and new releases at Editor Leah Hultenschmidts
  blog, RomanticReads.net
• And for the absolute latest news, tune in to the
  Twitter feed at Twitter.com/DorchesterPub.

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WHAT WE DO
We publish just about every subgenre of romance
imaginable, and well quickly go over them in the
following slides, but Dorchester is especially
known for taking chances on things that are new
and different, combinations of various subgenres
that havent been done beforeor are being
presented in a new and different way.
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HISTORICALS
Medieval, Western, Regency, Native Americanyou
name it, weve been there
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PARANORMALS
From the light and quirky to the dark and
dangerous

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BENDING GENRES

Urban Fantasy Romance, Paranormal Romantic
Suspense, Historical Fantasy Ghost-bustingif the
book doesnt fall into a nice neat category,
well make one up
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FANTASY ROMANCE
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CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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Combining a clever whodunit with red-hot romance
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ROMANTIC SUSPENSE
Plenty of thrills and lots of heat
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Now accepting e-mail submissions!

• Email the full manuscript and a 3- to 7-page
  synopsis as Word or
• rtf attachments to submissions_at_dorchesterpub.c
  om.
• Body of email should include cover letter
• Manuscript should be 75,000 to 90,000 words
• Response time is approximately 6-8 months
• Visit the Submission Guidelines section of the
  website for further info

Find more tips online at our new Writers Corner!
www.dorchesterpub.com