Last Chance

What happens when a Tarot readers meets a skeptical cowboy? A wild ride.

Susan Pell escaped from a nasty relationship and found peace living alone (if you don’t count the two match-making ghosts who are the original owners). Just when she decides to enter the dating pool again, in walks Max Lancaster, a sexy cowboy who happens to be her neighbor. Max has been given a free reading in the hopes that Susan will be able to predict his future. The attraction between them is instant, but his obvious disgust with her profession makes Susan want to have her way with him then strangle him for being such a close-minded fool. No matter that the ghosts say he’s the one, Susan’s not buying it. Avoiding him doesn’t help, nor does dating someone else. When Susan vows to forget him, fate (with a little help from the ghosts) take matters into their own hands.

Author: Kit Wylde
Genre: Paranormal Erotica
Book Length: Novella
Price: $4.75
Book type: e-Book
ISBN: 0-9771314-3-2
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Who is Wild Child and Freya's Bower?

Let me introduce myself. My name is Marci Baun, editor-in-chief of Wild Child Publishing and Freya's Bower.

In 1999, I started Wild Child Publishing with my then-roommate because, at that time, there was very little well-edited, well-written, and entertaining reading material on the web. Our search for quality reading material hasn't stopped since that September, and we have explanded WCP from a magazine to an e-book publisher. We have been recognized by Writer's Digest for our quality as one of the 101 Best Web Sites 2005, and frequently receive emails from happy contributors thanking us for our editing suggestions and friendliness. Even our rejections are nice.

Why? Because all of us are writers or people who realize how difficult the writing profession can be. We don't think it's necessary to insult someone even if we do not accept their material. We firmly believe that if we help one another out, all of us will do better in the long run.

What's our editing style?

1. Praise what is working;
2. Point out what doesn't work, inconsistencies, etc;
3. Do our best to enhance the story, making it the best possible story it can be.

What we won't do:

1. Try to change your writing style because we understand it's style that makes all of our material unique. However, if we feel the style interferes with the telling of the tale, we will point this out and encourage you to find ways to fix it using your voice.
2. Rewrite the piece for you. Afterall, it is your tale.

Who is Freya's Bower?

We are strictly an erotica and romance e-book publisher. We are interested in quality stories that are:

1. Plot driven romances with happy, or at the very least hopeful, endings and varying degrees of sex, depending on the classification of the story.
2. Heroes and heroines we can relate to. We want to see an arc of development in the characters throughout the story. Shorter stories must be tightly crafted for this reason.
3. Sex scenes must be relevant to the plot and organic to the story. If a scene can work without sex, then the sex isn't necessary and best left out.
4. Light bondage. This is acceptable as long as all parties are willing.
5. Titillating, passionate, well-written gay, lesbian and heterosexual stories.
6. We prefer third person stories.

For more information on what we want in our submissions, please visit our submission guidelines.

I hope to see more of you in the future.

Marci Baun
Editor-in-Chief

Call for Submissions

Freya's Bower is compiling two collections.

The first collection is for speculative erotic romance stories from published authors. If you write about ghosts, werewolves, vampires, aliens, shape shifters, etc., we would love to peruse your material for our first established e-book author (print authors welcome too!) compilation: TRIALS OF FIRE.

Trials of Fire: Make it literal or use it as a metaphor. Perhaps your hero saves the damsel in distress from a fiery car crash. Maybe your protagonist has gone through a divorce that put her through pure Hell. Or perhaps you've got a character who likes to play with candles and hot wax? Hmmm...

Just remember, whether you write sweet sex stories or sizzling ones, the sex must be integral to the plot.

Word Counts: short stories should be no less than 3,000 words (if you're a little short on word count, that's okay, but it must be within 100 words or so of the 3K mark.) and no longer than 10,000 words. Gay/lesbian themes welcome.

And remember, this is for speculative fiction.

Collection number two, DREAMS AND DESIRES is for all you aspiring authors out there. Do you write erotica? Romantic erotica? Is your story sweet, tangy, or downright sizzling? Then why not send us your short stories?

Theme: A man or woman's ultimate desire. Maybe it's money or a dream home. Maybe it's being loved, or possibly it's something as simple as having someone to talk to about his or her hopes and dreams. Let your imagination run wild.

Just remember, whether you write sweet sex stories or sizzling ones, the sex must be integral to the plot.

Word Counts: short stories should be no less than 3,000 words (if you're a little short on word count, that's okay, but it must be within 100 words or so of the 3K mark.) and no longer than 10,000 words. Gay/lesbian themes welcome.

Submissions are open now until April 15, 2006. However, should that date arrive and a writer is not finished with his/her submission, but is close, email me and we'll make arrangements of a completion/submission date. Submit to submit@freyasbower.com. Be sure to include "Submission: Trials of Fire or Dreams and Desires" in the subject line.

Be sure to read our Submission Guidelines thoroughly before submitting.