Fifty Shades of Green MATURE CONTENT

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About

Fifty Shades of Green will be a collection of sexy gardening-themed stories, to be published by Greenwoman Publishing this summer. The idea came about when talking with friends about the success of that . . . other book. I thought it would be hilarious to turn the story around--make the woman the billionaire, the man the virgin college student who is required to be the "submissive." Since we are gardeners, those thoughts morphed into ideas about making the billionaire a gardener. We began coming up with ideas for humorous scenarios in the garden: salacious acts of bondage with the garden hose, whippings conducted with switches from favorite flowering shrubs,requiring the "submissive" to perform nude weeding, for hours, on hands and knees. The possibilities were endless! Those scenarios morphed into ideas for not just one story, but a variety of stories that were not all BDSM oriented--just some funny, or strange, or amazing gardening-themed stories with one connecting theme--sex. Fifty Shades of Green is what we came up with. It's going to be our feminist/gardener/literary answer to that . . . other book. And it is going to be hotter than the hottest pepper on the Scoville index of heat. And smart, not smutty. Well, maybe a little smutty.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: One-time publication
Print Publication Print Publication: One-time publication

Fiction Closed

Audience:

Adults.

Genres:

Erotica Open to all/most Subgenres, including: BDSM, Erotic Fantasy, Erotic Science Fiction, Historical, Paranormal
Romance Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Erotic Romance, Historical, Paranormal, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Fantasy, Romantic Science Fiction

Lengths:

Short Story: 1,000 - 5,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Humorous, Mainstream, Quirky.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Electronic submissions.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Multiple entries: Multiple entries are NOT allowed.
Media: Text.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026