Welcome, Authors! Thank you so much for your interest in having your book featured at Kiss & Tale™ A Romance Bookshop. We are looking for local romance authors to feature on our shelves!
Before submitting your form, please be sure you meet the following requirements:
- Your book must fall in the romance genre. Romance must be the entrée, not the side dish in your story. To be considered, the story must have an HEA (happily ever after). If it does not have an HEA and ends in a cliffhanger, the series must be complete before consideration.
- We are looking for authors to be truly local. To be featured in our local section, you must be from the South Jersey/Philadelphia area, OR your book must be set in South Jersey or Philadelphia. If you are within an hour drive from the bookshop, you’re probably local!
We will have 2 options available for local authors.
- If your book is distributed by Ingram and we select it, we will take care of purchasing it and selling it in our store. For this option, please fill out our Ingram Author Submission Form.
- If you are not distributed by Ingram, but we select your book, we will sell it on a Consignment basis. Please read the following requirements before filling out the Consignment Submission Form. If you meet the requirements, please see our Consignment Policy Agreement for details on how the Consignment agreement works.
Consignment Requirements:
- Book must be professionally bound with a clear title on the cover and the binding.
- Book must have usable barcode and ISBN.
- If we are interested in your book, we will likely ask for an advanced copy to read before making a decision.
If you do not meet these requirements, we are unable to feature your books at this time. Unfortunately, we have very limited spacing and are unable to feature every book.
We do read every author submission, but with a small staff it may take up to 8 weeks to hear back from us. We cannot respond to every request, so if you don’t hear back within 8 weeks, this means we have passed on your submission, but we thank you for your interest and wish you the best of luck!
We kindly ask that you do not send books to the store unsolicited. We don’t have the space to store them, or the time to read every book. We wish we could! We know how much money it costs to self-publish a book and would hate for you to lose any money on dropping a book off that we won’t have a chance to read or sell.
No matter what, you as an author are AMAZING! The fact that you are on this page proves you have passion and dedication. You have achieved something that so many people only dream of doing, and that is to be celebrated. So whether or not we feature your book, you are a success! We see you, respect you, and appreciate you!
Please check back in the future for updates on book submission policies. As we learn and grow, our policies may change.
Thank you again for your interest! We look forward to reading your books!
The Team at Kiss & Tale™ A Romance Bookshop