Riverdale Ave Books to Host 2nd Annual NaNoWriMo Contest

By Maryann Yin 

Riverdale Ave. BooksRiverdale Avenue Books will be hosting its second annual National Novel Writing Month contest. The publisher invites NaNoWriMo participants to send in 50,000 to 80,000-word manuscripts to submissions@riverdaleavebooks.com.

The books can come in a wide variety of genres: erotica, erotic romance, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and LGBT fiction. The submissions should sent as word documents; contestants should also include a short author biography and a book synopsis. The deadline has been set for February 15, 2015.

Here’s more from the press release: “Later this month, the winner of Riverdale Avenue Book’s National Novel Writing Month contest book, Untrustworthy by Janet Gershen-Siegel will be published on Riverdale’ Avenue Book’s HSF and Magnus imprint…Winners will be notified by email by March 15, 2015. Each book chosen will be eligible for standard contract terms, including publication as both print and ebook. The winning books will be published in 2015.”