Writer's Submission Guidelines

Arrow Publications, LLC, a 28-year-old publishing company based in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, is the publisher of MyRomanceStory.com, a venture in romantic-suspense graphic novels started in 2005 that continues to grow in popularity among romance fiction and graphic novel readers.

In 2010, Arrow moved to publishing non graphic books on other platforms such as Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, the iPhone, iPad and other readers.

WHILE ARROW CONTINUES TO PUBLISH NEW BOOKS, WE ARE CURRENTLY NOT ACCEPTING ANY UNSOLICITED MANUSCRIPTS. WE HOPE TO REOPEN GENERAL SUBMISSIONS IN MID-2013.

Arrow is also not accepting new graphic novel scripts until further notice.

For future reference please see our novels and novellas (text-only) submission guidelines below.

Novels/Novellas and Selective Non Fiction

While Arrow distributes eBooks in all genres, we are currently only publish romance fiction and selective non fiction. One of the non fiction genres we do consider is women's issues.

Please do not send simultaneous submissions. Send your submission to us only if you have not submitted it elsewhere at the same time.

To submit a book for consideration, please send the following:

a query letter
an outline of your story
the word count for your complete novel or novella
a brief description of your submision
one chapter of the book
information on your promotional plans for the book including the URL of your author's website, Facebook and Twitter pages and details on any other planned promotional efforts.

Word Counts

Short novellas should be 19,000 to 24,000 words, novellas should be 25,000 to 55,000 words in length and novels should be 56,000 to 110,000 words.

DO NOT SEND A COPY OF YOUR FULL NOVEL/NOVELLA OR NON FICTION BOOK WITH YOUR INITIAL INQUIRY.

All outlines should be between two and three single-spaced pages. Your outline should include location descriptions and where in the story romantic interactions between the protagonists occur. Outlines can be sent in the body of an e-mail message or as an attachment. If sending as an attachment, we prefer that the file be saved as a PDF, Microsoft Word document (DOC) or Rich Text Format (RTF). Please e-mail your submissions to:

Submissions Editor at arrow_info@arrowpub.com.