These guidelines are in addition to the general guidelines for The Wild Rose Press; please be sure to read and adhere to both.

Our Climbing Roses line is our Young Adult line. These stories portray young women of today, ages 14-18. While we still expect the stories to maintain the highest quality of reading material, they may not adhere to the strictest sense of the romance submission. This means that the stories might be a paranormal without any romance in it at all or one that is only vaguely implied. Think Harry Potter, Eragon, The Golden Compass, All American Girl and many of the current Nancy Drew books. Climbing Rose books may convey all types of messages and could encompass a variety of settings from mystery to inspirational, paranormal to historical.

The Wild Rose Press will not accept any manuscript that gives a negative or “mean girl” type of feeling. We will also not accept any paranormal that becomes too dark or negative.

In the Climbing Rose stories characters that are involved romantically should be on a PG13 type of scale. Meaning, nothing more than a kiss should occur between the hero and heroine.

The Climbing Roses line uses a teen focus group to review all queries. While the Senior Editor still has the final decision, the opinions of this panel of young women is crucial to the success of this line. The compilation of their opinions will guide the acceptance of the manuscripts and be given as feedback to the authors.

As this is a new line (just opened in the summer of 2007), we fully expect that this line will adapt and change during the upcoming months. So, please check back to review these guidelines and feel free to contact us and help these roses climb to new levels of adventure.

See main submission page for information on how to query.