Win a Book Contract in This Year's NaNoWriMo Contest

Award-winning, innovative New York publisher Riverdale Avenue Books is holding a NaNoWriMo publishing contest, with a chance to win a book contract.

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is the national event wherein writers are encouraged to complete a novel in 30 days. Participants start writing their 50,000-word novel at midnight on November 1st and they have the whole month of November to finish it.

“I believe that NaNoWriMo books are good books—books worthy of publication. I know a lot of people think they are throw-away books, but Riverdale Avenue Books had a NaNoWriMo contest in 2014 and we published what I consider to be one of the best science fiction titles I’ve ever read,” said Publisher Lori Perkins. “Untrustworthy by JR Gershen-Seigel is an LGBTQ Hand Maid’s Tale. It is so good that I had to ask the author if she had really written it in 30 days, or if it was a work-shopped trunk novel she had submitted for the contest. ”

Submit your 50,000-80,000-word novel in the genres of erotica, erotic romance, romance, horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller and LGBT fiction to Riverdale Avenue Books by February 27, 2019 for consideration. Riverdale Avenue Books’ team of editors will evaluate the submissions and choose a title for publication by Riverdale Avenue Books.

The winners will be notified by email by April 1, 2019 and will be offered standard contract terms, including publication as both print and ebook. The winning book will be published in 2019.

Please submit completed novels in a word document format with a brief author bio and book synopsis to submissions@riverdaleavebooks.com.