[Bench Press]: Sports Romance Novels

This is the novel submission portal of Bench Press. Please know what it is before submitting.

• Sports Romance novels and standalone Sports Romance novellas only.
• Doesn't have to be fluffy, and you can think outside the box, but it should have a sport, a romance, and a happy ending.
• Open to all styles, themes, relationships, identities. Love is love.
• Any length over 30,000 words.
• Any sport, broad categorization.
• Must be 18 to submit.
• We pay 30% net proceeds for paperback and ebook sales.
• Submit a cover letter that briefly explains your book, pitches or hooks, audience, special marketing ideas or connections you have for sales, sport(s), style(s) (spicy, sweet, etc.), tropes used (grumpy/sunshine, meet-cute, enemies-to-lovers, etc.), romance-readers groups you're part of, expertise with the sport(s), or anything else you think we need to know about you or your book. You can either attach this cover letter as part of your submission or paste it into the cover letter field.
• Submit your entire manuscript. Once we start reading, we won't want to stop!
• There is a $12 reading fee to support our press and pay our readers. Reading submissions takes an incredible amount of time, and charging a small reading fee allows us to give your manuscript the care and attention it deserves. We thank you so much for your support. Each submission comes with an ebook of our latest title, currently Sharp Edges by Olivia North (hockey romance, book 1 in the Fresh Ice Series).

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