Qualifying Markets (listed below) received a questionnaire that included the following statements:
As a professional writers association, RWA stands firmly against any attempts to directly solicit RWA members to pursue vanity/subsidy publishing or other author-financed forms of publication. Publishing programs (lines, imprints or divisions) that directly solicit or refer writers to subsidy/vanity or other author-financed means of publication will not be allowed to participate in RWA’s annual conference as a featured publishing program.
“Subsidy” or “Vanity” publishing means the production of books in which the author participates in the costs of production or distribution in any manner, including assessment of fees or other costs for editing and/or distribution. This definition includes publishing programs that withhold or seek full or partial payment or reimbursement of publication or distribution costs before paying royalties, including payment of paper, printing, binding, production, sales or marketing costs; publishing programs whose authors exclusively promote and/or sell their own books; and publishers whose business model and methods of publishing are primarily directed toward sales to the author, his/her relatives and associates.
Management from the lines, imprints or divisions listed below certified to RWA that they have read and understand the above statement. They have attested that the publisher, line, imprint, or division they represent does not and will not refer RWA members to subsidy/vanity or author-financed publishing programs.
The following Qualifying Markets have completed the evaluation process and have expressed interest in various conference programs and resources. (Other Qualifying Markets are still in the evaluation process.) RWA will make every effort to allocate space based on publisher requests, but meeting space is finite. A preliminary schedule of events and sponsors will be available in the May RWR and on RWA’s Web site.
List updated April 26, 2010
Avalon Books
B & H Publishing Group
BelleBooks, Inc.
Bell Bridge Books
Baker Publishing
Bethany House
Bold Strokes
Dorchester Publishing Company, Inc.
Love Spell
Leisure Books
Ellora’s Cave
Cerridwen Press
Guideposts
Guideposts Books
Hachette Book Group
Forever
Grand Central Publishing
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Arabesque
Carina Press
Harlequin Blaze
Harlequin Presents
Harlequin Presents Extra
Harlequin Romance
Harlequin Superromance
Harlequin American Romance
Harlequin Intrigue
Harlequin Historicals
Harlequin Historicals Undone
Harlequin Teen
HQN Books
Kimani Romance
Kimani Press
LUNA
Mills & Boon Romance
Mills & Boon Modern
Mills & Boon Modern Heat
Mills & Boon Medical Romance
Mills & Boon Historical
Mills & Boon SuperHistorical
Mira
Silhouette Nocturne
Silhouette Nocturne Bites
Silhouette Desire
Silhouette Special Edition
Silhouette Romantic Suspense
Spice
Spice Briefs
Steeple Hill Love Inspired
Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense
Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historicals
Steeple Hill Love Inspired Classics
HarperCollins Publishers
Avon Books
Avon A
Avon Inspirational
Avon Red
William Morrow
Zondervan
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Aphrodisia
Brava
Dafina
Kensington
K Mass Market
Zebra
Loose ID, LLC
Penguin Group, USA
Berkley
Berkley Sensation
Heat
Jove
NAL
Putnam
Random House
Ballantine
Bantam Dell
Ravenous Romance
Red Sage Publishing, Inc.
Samhain Publishing, Ltd
Simon & Schuster
Pocket Books
Sourcebooks, Inc.
St. Martin’s Press - MacMillan
TOR Romance - Tom Doherty Associates (Tor/Forge) - MacMillan
United Methodist Publishing House
Abingdon Press Fiction
