Angry Robot 2017 Open Door

Agreed Dryad -

I do expect a R, and have from the get go, because my draft was so raw. (It was all of five months old.) It's been through multiple revisions and betas since and is in better shape with each week. And i'm still not ready to query! But the process has been good and AW gave such helpful feedback last year. Yay to AR for spurring us all on!

Agreed with both of you. But I suppose I can continue to cling to some bits of hope since I didn't submit until well into December - and I can just hope mine hasn't made it very far along the very big queue yet. At least that is what I will keep telling myself

Wait, Jaine's hidden sun is coming out this September? I thought turn around from contact to pub was generally a year. They just announced. Is it normally that quick?

BlueLobster said:

Wait, Jaine's hidden sun is coming out this September? I thought turn around from contact to pub was generally a year. They just announced. Is it normally that quick?

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The date when a novel is officially announced is not always the date when the contract was actually signed - sometimes that was months earlier. Publication date may also depend on when they have an open publication slot, and things like how much editing was needed; so if it did not require much in the way of structural edits and only needed some minor tweaks then that could shave months off the process.

I believe she is previously published and the book has been years in the polishing, so it probably moved faster than it might for another author. (Also, she subbed early).

I'm wondering what that means for the rest of us entrees, since I'm assuming "last fall's Open Door" means 2017 since it looks like they didn't do one for 2016. That being said, it must have been damn impressive if they took up the offer that fast.

My read on her article is that AR was finally the right fit, after not finding that fit elsewhere. And i agree with Harlequin - she'd been working on it for years, at least that is how it sounds to me. Elsewhere yesterday I read of someone finding a publisher after 174 rejection slips.

I got my rejection today.

Oh well.

Arcs said:

I got my rejection today.

Oh well.

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Sorry to hear that Arcs.

Any feedback on the ms or just a form letter?

Just a form letter. I can't recall ever getting anything helpful in any rejection, probably because one person pass is another's acceptance, and they're all too busy to give feedback anyway.

Arcs said:

I got my rejection today.

Oh well.

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Too bad, Arcs. Onward and upward. It's a new day. Once more unto the breach... etc.

I bombed out yesterday too. Form rejection.

Sorry to see the R's Hopefully your manuscripts will find a good home elsewhere.

Yes - sympathies from me, too.

Sorry guys. For perspective, Hodderscape had an open submission in 2015 where they received 1500 submissions, and only 8 made it, or 0.5%.

In the end, this is a numbers game. Here's to hoping that at least one of us here make it, although the odds are against us.

On the other hand, "never tell me the odds!"

chracatoa said:

Sorry guys. For perspective, Hodderscape had an open submission in 2015 where they received 1500 submissions, and only 8 made it, or 0.5%.

In the end, this is a numbers game. Here's to hoping that at least one of us here make it, although the odds are against us.

On the other hand, "never tell me the odds!"

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And that's 8 full manuscripts they called in to read - not 8 that got published!

Sorry about the Rs!

Cheers all. Still have one other publisher looking at the full, and a quality agent interested. After that, I think it might be time for a genre change for me. Good luck to the rest of you!

Sorry for the Rs guys. DJ good luck with the other publisher/agent. Do you have some other genre stories you want to tell (or have already written?).

Sorry for the Rs, folks.

Condolences both x

crystal: I have two literary horror novels, for which I did gain a literary agent for, but he didn't manage to sell the first novel and I wasn't confident he could sell the second one either, so I left the agency. This was my first venture into SFF, but I've got a Southern Gothic fairytale started, and an outline for a psychological suspense thriller. Not sure which direction to take next...

Well hopefully whatever your next step it is one that is inspiring and fun for you!

Sorry to hear about the R's, everyone. As for the data, it's interesting that they seem to be reading through the entries in order of submission. Getting more nervous!