Phaze
Phaze is the Erotic Romance arm of Mundania Press, LLC, launching in late 2004 with novel and novella length erotica in e-book and trade paperback formats. Phaze primarily publishes Erotic Romance and some women's Erotica, specializing in all sub-genres, including paranormal, contemporary, BDSM, historical, and sci-fi.
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Submissions
Phaze is always open to submissions. See the current guidelines. Review ALL submission criteria (content AND formatting) before submitting your work to Phaze.
Phaze sells fiction in the following lengths. Stories of 35K words and higher are eligible for print.
- HeatSheet: 5,000 - 12,000 words (short stories)
- Themed HeatSheet: 5,000 - 18,000 (stories with a special theme, 4-6 lines published annually)
- Photon: 12,000 - 30,000 words (novella)
- Comet: 30,000 - 60,000 words (category)
- Eclipse: 60,000 - 90,000 words (novel)
- Quasar: 90,000+ words (mega-novel)
Phaze classifies their erotic romance on a one to five scale:
- 1 - Exclusive pairings, heavy sensual to explicit scenes, mainly vanilla
- 2 - Exclusive pairings, explicit scenes, maybe some toys or daring situations
- 3 - Exclusive pairings and maybe multiple partners, toys, anal play, light bondage
- 4 - Exclusive pairings, multiple partners and/or menage, anal play, BDSM
- 5 - No holds barred, heavy BDSM, menage and more, fetishes
Contact
HeatSheet Promotions
Since 2005, Phaze has offered special themed HeatSheet stories. Selection of these stories are limited to 6-12 titles per promotion and are selected through limited calls for manuscripts:
- Sparkler - Summer theme (2005)
- Shiver - Halloween/horror theme (2005)
- Surge - Electric theme (2006)
- Samba- Latin/South America theme (2006)
- Snuggler - Winter/Holiday theme (2006)
- Fetish - BDSM theme (2007)
- Fury - Revenge theme (2007)
- Force - Law enforcement/Military theme (2007)
- Frontier - New territory theme (2007)
- Frost - Winter/Holiday theme (2007)
- Overture - Music theme (2008)
- Outlaw - Bad Boys/Gals theme (2008)
- Obey - BDSM theme (2008)
- Obsession - Obsessive behavior/fetish theme (2008)
- OZ - otherworlds/other realities theme (2008)
- Oh! Oh! Oh! - Winter/Holiday theme (2008)
Special Lines
Phaze also produces or plans to produce special themed lines, including:
- Umbra - Dark Erotica
- Phaze Fantasies - 4-6 author anthologies of erotic romance, primarily by in-house authors
- Urban Phaze - Erotic romance with metropolitan settings
- Coming Together - multi-author anthologies benefiting various charities
Authors
- Jenna Allen
- Piers Anthony
- Lily Ashford
- M. Barnette
- Will Belegon
- Mychael Black
- Iona Blair
- Eden Bradley
- Alessia Brio
- L.E. Bryce
- Estelle Byers
- Petula Caesar
- Shayne Carmichael
- Adrianna Dane
- Bianca D'Arc
- Vivien Dean
- Jayelle Drewry
- Tysche Dwai
- Leigh Ellwood
- Dreama Faire
- Jade Falconer
- Anna Fallon
- Eva Gale
- Philippa Grey-Garou
- Karen Harley
- Mara Kelly
- Cassidy Kent
- Kelly Maher
- Selah March
- Jude Mason
- Ava McKnight
- Bridget Midway
- Derek Musgrave
- Madeleine Oh
- Audra Price
- Stella Price
- Sapphire Phelan [1]
- Ann Regentin
- Robin Slick
- Devi Sparks
- Trixie Stilletto
- Emily Veinglory
- Jessie Verino
- Cassie Walder
- Trinidad West
- Emma Wildes
- Kate Willoughby
Staff
- Dan Reitz - CEO
- Kathryn Lively - Publisher
- Crystal Bright - Promotions
- Stella Price - Asst. Promotions
- Debi Lewis - Chief Cover Artist
- Alessia Brio - Anthology Editor
- Robin Slick - Editor
- Denise Jeffries - Editor
- Michelle Dowdey - Editor
- Jade Falconer - Editor
- Stephanie Ballistieri - Editor
- Kent Miller - Editor
- Leigh Ellwood - Webmistress
