They accept both unagented and agented submissions, and the guidelines had this note: “Avon Impulse authors may also be considered for the traditional Avon Romance publishing program.” Read the complete submission guidelines before submitting your book.

Here’s more from the publisher: “We encourage creativity, so feel free to impress us with what you’ve got! We also have our eye out for great submissions in the following subgenres: Contemporary, Fantasy, Futuristic, Ghost, Gothic, Historical, Magical, Time Travel, Western, Shifter, Small Town, Steampunk, Suspense, Vampire (and others).”

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Whether you love The Flame and the Flower or hate it, we’re still talking about it thirty years later. How many other romances will be able to make that claim? As I turned the last page of the book with a wistful sigh, I was humbled all over again by what a tremendous debt of gratitude we all owe Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. Brandon Birmingham and Heather Simmons are truly the grandparents of all the historical heroes and heroines who came after them. At the end of the book, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss shouldn’t have written The End, but The Beginning.

Woodiwiss’s passing comes only a few days before the Romance Writers of America hosts its annual convention, which starts tomorrow and runs through Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Dallas. It remains to be seen whether RWA will have any sort of official tribute, as the convention plans its program months in advance, but there’s little doubt Woodiwiss, and her influence, will be on the minds of many over the course of the week.

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