Clarendon House Publications
Rapture: The Inner Circle Writers’ Group Romance Anthology 2018
This is about love. It can be love in a different historical era, love in a science fiction or fantasy setting, or love set in contemporary times.
But not sex. No sex scenes at all - this needs to be ‘family friendly’ love. Romantic relationships in fiction can achieve super-power levels without having a single sex scene. Think Austen; think Brönte.
What do I mean by ‘love’? C. S. Lewis describes four kinds of love (in his book conveniently titled The Four Loves): Affection, Friendship, Eros or romantic/sexual love, and Intellectual Love or Charity. This anthology is about the Eros kind, the love between one person and another which can lead to sex (and often does). Unfortunately, ‘Eros’ is the root word for ‘erotic’, and that, as I say, is precluded. But this is a big opportunity for romance writers everywhere - and I know that there are many of you.
Length: under 10,000 words. The due date for Rapture is July 31st.