“Damnation Books specializes in dark writing: horror, dark fantasy, thrillers, science fiction and erotica (in dark settings). We officially launch the company in September 2009 with twenty-five titles. After the initial opening, we will release twelve new titles every three months. This means our submissions are ongoing and not for specific time periods. All our books are available in ebook and digital formats. Novels and novellas also are released as trade paperbacks.

We accept unsolicited submissions. Multiple submissions are fine so long as you keep us informed of the book’s status and let us know immediately should it be sold elsewhere. Turnaround time is currently expected at four to six weeks. Please don’t inquire until that length of time has passed.

Word lengths:

• Short stories  5,000 to 10,000 words
• Novellas  10,001 to 60,000
• Novels  60,001 to 120,000

Our pay rate for short stories is three cents per word with a max length of 10,000 words. Novellas and novel length works are royalty based at 40% net. We are unable to pay advances at this time.  We ask for worldwide electronic, worldwide digital and North American print rights for a five year period from the date of release. There will NEVER be any fees charged to authors for being published by us.”

For more info, go to Damnation Books.