About
Why Mocha Memoirs?
Our vision is to provide an outlet for outstanding speculative and romance stories that often fall beneath the radar of traditional publishing houses. We seek to provide quality stories that invigorate the reader’s literary palette like a good, strong coffee as well as evoke strong emotions that linger like a good memoir.
Mocha Memoirs Press started in 1998 and produced the online magazine, Mocha Memoirs Ezine of Short Fiction and Poetry, which published short fiction and poetry from 1998 to 2001. Mocha Memoirs Press transitioned to publishing e-books in 2010. After more than twelve years in electronic publishing, Mocha Memoirs Press is excited and poised to provide exceptional stories to the reading public.
Submission Guidelines
Mocha Memoirs Press, LLC is an electronic publishing company that seeks to add new flavors to the realms of speculative fiction and romance. We invite authors to submit works of 8k to 30k for possible publication in our catalog. Mocha Memoirs Press, LLC wants to see works that include excellent writing, superior storytelling, and fantastic creativity. We want our readers to lose themselves in the worlds the authors have created, and to care about the characters populating those worlds. Moreover, we’d like to see ethnic diversity in stories as well. We do not accept reprints at this time.
We do publish paranormal romance, science fiction romance, fantasy romance, and dark fantasy romance. We’d like to see submissions in these areas as well. Our interracial romance titles have been very successful, so feel free submit those also.
Please keep in mind that although a new company, we’re by no means accepting every submission or submissions that are poorly edited, offensive, crude, or sloppy. Please only submit your absolute best work. As a publisher, we’ll make sure you get the best from us in return. We have over 12 years of electronic publishing experience; so please don’t submit low quality or unprofessional work.
To submit your work to us, submit a cover letter, completed novel and synopsis/marketing history to mochamemoirspress (at) gmail.com. Remove the spaces and use the @ symbol in place of (at).
We do have an active open call for the following series and specific lines.
Beauty & the Geek Series
Stories in our wildly popular Beauty & the Geek series are erotic romance in nature. The hero must be the geek and the heroine the beauty. Outside of those restrictions, we’re pretty open-minded. Word count requirement is at least 10,000 words to 30,000 words. This series follows our standard submission guidelines in regards to the big No-Nos: bestiality, rape, hate-filled literature, or anything we find or deem degrading.
Steamy Mocha Shots Series
This series is for short shots of fiction—usually romance—but can be a mash-up of other genres. The focus of these stories is that they are short, but complete and steamy tales of romance. They can be erotic in nature, but the point is that they must absolutely be less than 5,000 words. This series follows our standard submission guidelines in regards to the big No-Nos: bestiality, rape, hate-filled literature, or anything we find or deem degrading.
Dark Mocha Bites Series
This series focuses on horror stories. As with most stories, we are not afraid of genre mash-up, but the overall feel of the story must be horrific. Stories in this series must be 30,000 words or less. This series follows our standard submission guidelines in regards to the big No-Nos: bestiality, rape, hate-filled literature, or anything we find or deem degrading.
Espresso Shots Series
These are very much like the Steamy Mocha Shots, but without the steam. In fact, these are bold blasts of a genre—science fiction, horror, or fantasy. These stories have all the hallmarks of those classic genres but add dashes of bold creativity. The other good news—espresso shots are only 6,000 words.We like to think of espresso shots as coffee (classic genres) with shots of espresso (bold eye-opening creativity). This series follows our standard submission guidelines in regards to the big No-Nos: bestiality, rape, hate-filled literature, or anything we find or deem degrading.
If you have questions, please query before sending your submission.
