Qualifying Markets for Romance Writers of America's
33rd Annual Conference

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.

List updated January 16, 2012

Avalon Books

B & H Publishing Group

BelleBooks, Inc.
  Bell Bridge Books

Baker Publishing
  Bethany House

Blushing Cheeks Books

Bold Strokes

Boroughs Publishing Group
  Lunch Box Romance 

Coliloquy

Ellora’s Cave
  Cerridwen Press

Entangled Publishing
  All Entangled Imprints

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
  Harlequin Nocturne
  Harlequin Nocturne Bites
  Harlequin Desire
  Harlequin Special Edition
  Harlequin Romantic Suspense
  Spice
  Spice Briefs
  Love Inspired
  Love Inspired Suspense
   Love Inspired Historicals
   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 

Liquid Silver Books

Loose ID, LLC

Montlake Romance (Amazon)

Penguin Group, USA
  Berkley
  Berkley Sensation
  Heat
  Jove 
  NAL
  Putnam

Random House
  Ballantine
  Bantam Dell
  Loveswept

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