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. Response time 8 weeks.
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:
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, romance, and women's fiction novel manuscripts of any subgenre and nonfiction of interest to the female audience
- Series are encouraged but not required for romance
- We are closed to other genres at this point in time, including picture books and middle grade
- 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...
- 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.
- Post cards can be mailed to Orange Blossom Publishing, 2020 Geronimo Trail, Maitland, FL 32751
- Currently accepting nonfiction posts at least 500 words, preferably broken into sections with headings
- Topics include anything about writing or publishing, or aimed at our target audience of parents, educators, and women (no book or service promo)
- Original submissions preferred, writer retains all rights to their work
- Selected posts will have full bio with headshot and link at the bottom of the post
- Posts will be sent out to email list and posted on our social media
