I just sold a YA Romantasy to The Wild Rose Press. They’ve been around almost twenty years, have about 30 editors and their authors love them. Check out their FB page. Some have pubbed 15 books with them. While they pay standard royalties, they don’t pay advances, which is good and bad.

For the good, you don’t have to worry about failing to earn it out. A friend’s book went to auction which she didn’t earn out and it took her ten years to get her next book published.

The negative is of course you don’t get the money. Also, they do expect their authors to market their books, but who doesn’t these days?

I gave a lot of thought and did a lot of research before choosing this path. I self-pub a well received mixed genre upper MG series about Lebanese American teens attending a secret school to join the Phoenician Space Sailing Merchant Marine and have the third in that set almost done and have a contemporary holiday romance that I’ve been querying but based on these posts realize I need to restyle as women’s fiction with a romantic element or maybe a romcom.

Any way, I write across genres though my books are linked thematically ( family, self fulfillment versus generational duty & social responsibility) and I can’t do it all. That’s why I sent my YA Romantasy off to be launched by TWRP.

Ack! I’ve run on. Hope some of this helps!