Top Shelf

Romantic, erotic, exciting, fantastic -- Torquere's premier novel line is the imprint the press was built on. With stories ranging from fantasy to western, from contemporary to sci-fi, these novels are the best of their genre, full-length and pure entertainment.

Novels should be 50,000 words and up, featuring gay and lesbian characters, and have a romantic turn to them. Genre fiction is especially welcome.. All submissions must conform to the Torquere Press submission guidelines, found on our writers' guidelines page. We are currently reading for 2008.

Please put "Top Shelf Submission" in the subject line of all emails.

Submissions should be sent to submissions@torquerepress.com.

These stories will pay 35% of the cover price on all sales made on the Torquere Press site, and 25% of the cover price on all sales from our distributors' sites, paid quarterly. Distributor sales are not paid until we receive payment from that seller.

We do not accept material with underage characters, bestiality, or rape.