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Hello all!
I recently submitted my whole MS to DAW's slushpile. It isn't with any other publishers and, when I saw their guidelines asked it to be an exclusive for something like at least two months, I thought, "Waiting will suck but I can offer that." So I did tell them it was exclusive in my cover letter.
Flash forward less than a week later and I realize PitMad is coming. Fast. I am sans agent now and that MS is solid, clean, and has a great query letter. So, obviously, I want to pitch it there. Really, really, really badly. So I figured, well, obviously I will just ignore or reply to publishers who might fav it that I cannot submit anything to them right now. This is about agent hunting, even as I kinda am leery of them after breaking up with my first one (hence why I subbed to DAW).
Anyway, when I told my hubby that publishers watch PitMad too, he freaked out. He insisted I had "entered an agreement" that would prohibit me from using that MS in PitMad at all and could "blacklist" me in the industry if DAW made the connection. I told him he was making a mountain of a mole hill, but I thought I *should* swing by here to ask the experts.
So...any editors have a take on this? My goal with PitMad, and I could Tweet as much, is to find an agent and this MS is spoken for right now publisher-wise. Would DAW reject me or think I'm dishonest for partaking in PitMad with this MS? It occurred to me I could even get their interest in the PitMad, which would be hella awesome, but hubby is all fears and...anyway, yeah. Any merit to this fear at all?
I recently submitted my whole MS to DAW's slushpile. It isn't with any other publishers and, when I saw their guidelines asked it to be an exclusive for something like at least two months, I thought, "Waiting will suck but I can offer that." So I did tell them it was exclusive in my cover letter.
Flash forward less than a week later and I realize PitMad is coming. Fast. I am sans agent now and that MS is solid, clean, and has a great query letter. So, obviously, I want to pitch it there. Really, really, really badly. So I figured, well, obviously I will just ignore or reply to publishers who might fav it that I cannot submit anything to them right now. This is about agent hunting, even as I kinda am leery of them after breaking up with my first one (hence why I subbed to DAW).
Anyway, when I told my hubby that publishers watch PitMad too, he freaked out. He insisted I had "entered an agreement" that would prohibit me from using that MS in PitMad at all and could "blacklist" me in the industry if DAW made the connection. I told him he was making a mountain of a mole hill, but I thought I *should* swing by here to ask the experts.
So...any editors have a take on this? My goal with PitMad, and I could Tweet as much, is to find an agent and this MS is spoken for right now publisher-wise. Would DAW reject me or think I'm dishonest for partaking in PitMad with this MS? It occurred to me I could even get their interest in the PitMad, which would be hella awesome, but hubby is all fears and...anyway, yeah. Any merit to this fear at all?