Submitting to Orange Blossom Publishing

At Orange Blossom Publishing, our mission is to create unique books with a focus on quality with our stories and the physical look of our books. We welcome authors of all genders, ethnicities, and backgrounds and appreciate the opportunity to specifically share more female, LGBTQ, and neurodivergent voices. Our press caters to a mostly female audience, focusing on love, humor, and children's books. Please see below for which genres we are currently accepting. We use Submittable for all submissions. Do not email any submissions. 

Note: We are not a vanity press or author services. We are a traditional press. Authors will not pay money to be published.

Book Submissions:

• Currently accepting: young adult, middle grade, romance, and women's fiction novel manuscripts of any subgenre, series preferred for romance and middle grade but not required​
• ​We are closed to other genres at this point in time
• We are very selective about which projects we decide to take on. Any project we decide to publish must be in alignment with our brand about love, wellness, and/or humor or children's books.  These themes can be expanded, for example "love" includes self-love, love of family, romantic love, love of friends...

Art Submissions:

• We love seeing illustrator portfolios. Please send them our way!
• If we aren't currently in need of an illustrator, we will save your information for a later time. 
• Portfolios can be emailed to info@orangeblossombooks.com.

How I Met My Other: Volume Three
True Engagements, Forever Love

It's time for the next volume of HIMMO! For book number three, we want your crazy, funny, sweet, romantic, unbelievable, or unforgettable engagement stories. All kinds of love stories are welcome and we encourage everyone to submit. Volume three will be published in February of 2022, before Valentine's Day. Submission deadline: July 15, 2021. Questions? Email Arielle at info@orangeblossombooks.com. Looking forward to reading your work!

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Submission Requirements

• 3,000 - 5,000 words
• Piece must be previously unpublished
• Written as a narrative (We don't want to be told about what happened, we want to be shown--see what the person is seeing, feel what the person is feeling...)
• A true story or based on a true story.
• May be written in the first or third person and can be your own story or someone else in your family's.
• Submissions must be 12 point font, Times New Roman, one inch margins, indented but not tabbed. Author information to be included on the top left: author name, email address, phone number, word count. Pen names can be included in the by-line. 

Additional Information

• Authors will be notified if their story has been chosen for publication by July 31, 2021.
• There is no payment for contributions at this time but authors whose stories are selected will receive a free contributor copy and access to print copies near cost for resale at retail price.
• Orange Blossom Publishing will have exclusive rights for six months from the date of publication. Rights revert back to the author upon expiration of that period. Orange Blossom Publishing will maintain the rights to publish the story in the anthology as well as use excerpts for promotional purposes.
• Questions? Email info@orangeblossombooks.com​

Blog Post Submissions

We are always open to submissions for the Orange Blossom Blog! Topics can include the craft of writing, publishing, book marketing, children's books...and just about anything book-related. Posts can be anywhere from 500 - 1000 words, original works preferred. Send your post as an attachment to info@orangeblossombooks.com for consideration.