Submitting to Orange Blossom Publishing

We currently have two submission opportunities open: How I Met My Other volume three, Engagements and Vibrations: Five Years After Pulse. Please scroll down for more information about those opportunities. 

Book Submissions:

• Currently accepting: young adult, middle grade and romance novel manuscripts of any subgenre, series preferred for romance but not required
  • ​Send your query and first ten pages to info@orangeblossombooks.com 
• ​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.  

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: June 30, 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• Piece must be previously unpublished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. Email submissions as an attachment to: info@orangeblossombooks.com
  

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​

Vibrations: Five Years After Pulse

A Mixed Media Experience

On June 12, 2016, 49 beautiful souls were taken from us and the reverberations of those we lost along with the survivors, first responders and all impacted echoed around the world. For the fifth remembrance of the Pulse nightclub tragedy, we’re asking you to reflect on how the tragedy has impacted your life and brought you to where you are today. We’re asking for genuine reflections of the significance of this event and how the (almost) five-year journey has affected you, your lifestyle, your thoughts, and your feelings. Give us the good, the bad, the everything. Give us the real.

Vibrations: A Mixed Media Experience will welcome a wide variety of artistic expression—creative fiction and nonfiction, poetry, photography, art, music, and performance. The final compilation will be shared in two formats: a printed publication with written pieces, photography, and art as well as a mixed-media web experience with music, performance, and other pieces not included in the printed publication.
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Newhouse Creative Group and Orange Blossom Publishing are thrilled to be collaborating on the first edition of Vibrations: A Mixed Media Experience with the onePULSE Foundation, the official foundation incorporated to manage the design and construction of the permanent national memorial and museum dedicated to the Pulse tragedy. All of the profits from this project will go directly to the foundation and will be available through the Pulse memorial kiosk and online store. As this is a charity project, individuals whose works are selected will not be compensated for their work.

Submission Requirements

All submissions will be considered for the final compilation. Due to the number of submissions, we will not be able to accept every piece. Individuals may submit no more than two works for consideration. Send your submission to submissions@vibrationsexperience.com as an attachment no later than 4/15/2021. Please use the following format for your subject line: Submission category, title, name. For example: Photography, The 49, Jason Walls.

Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry

Submissions must be original works, no more than 5,000 words. Format your writing using Times New Roman, size 12, double spaced, with one-inch margins. Place your name, contact information, and submission title in the top left corner. Attach as a DOC/DOCX file.

Photography and Art

Submissions must be original work of at least 300 dpi and no more than 2000 pix. JPG, PNG, or PDF files are required, and file size may not exceed 8 mb. Include your name, submission title(s), and contact information in the body of the email. Note that images must be printed in CMYK for the book.

Music and Performance

Submissions must be original work and under five minutes in length and sent as an MP4, MP3, GIF, or a link to a private YouTube upload. If emailing the original file, file size may not exceed 8 mb. Include your name, submission title(s), and contact information in the body of the email. 

For other submission types, email info@vibrationsexperience.com.

Rights

For all selected works, rights will remain with the creator. Individuals will be welcome to share their works in other places. We will provide a contract confirming permission to share the work in the book and web experience.

Questions?

Email info@vibrationsexperience.com for more information.

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.