Tor Books currently open for short, dark fiction

[Katie-Ellen]

We need a 'yooo-hoooo!' prefix.

Sorry if it's been posted already and I've failed to spot it.

Any good for anyone?

http://www.tor.com/submissions-guidelines/

U.S It seems you may submit a novel, unagented here:

http://www.tor.com/submissions-guidelines/

 

[Karen Gray]

Ooh This might be one for you @David Steele and @Marc Joan!

 

[Marc Joan]

I sent one of mine to them a few days ago. They have a reputation for being very slow, and they don't like simsubs, so you have to be prepared for one of your stories to be tied up with them and them alone for six months to a year....And it will probably still get rejected at the end of that.
This must be the only business in the world where one party gets an exclusive right of consideration for free -- in most industries that would be a right that people would pay money for. But I can see why that would never work in the world of fiction...

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Good luck with that one, Marc. Doesn't seem equitable, does it, exclusive is OK if they can turn an answer round quickly.

 

[David Steele]

Ooh This might be one for you @David Steele and @Marc Joan!

Thanks, Karen. I'm not ready for this yet, and all my shorts are below 2,500 words at the moment.
Maybe next year!

I'm still not sure whether I'm going to go down the shorts route. Might just crack on with Book two... It would be useful if I could EVER stop editing my MS and write something new, though.

 

[Karen Gray]

Thanks, Karen. I'm not ready for this yet, and all my shorts are below 2,500 words at the moment.
Maybe next year!

I'm still not sure whether I'm going to go down the shorts route. Might just crack on with Book two... It would be useful if I could EVER stop editing my MS and write something new, though.

Book 2.... ... Oh Please please please PLEASE do that!

 

[David Steele]

Book 2.... ... Oh Please please please PLEASE do that!

You could always bribe @Jason Byrne for a spoiler.

 

[David Steele]

Good luck with that one, Marc. Doesn't seem equitable, does it, exclusive is OK if they can turn an answer round quickly.

I think "not equitable" sums up everything I've learned about publishing this year, Katie Ellen.

 

[Karen Gray]

You could always bribe @Jason Byrne for a spoiler.

Don't tell me you gave @Jason Byrne stuff and not me!? @David Steele ! That is sooooo unfair! Boo hoo wah... tantrum ensues... lol

 

[Jason Byrne]

**Spoiler:** It's gonna be pretty awesome.

 

[Karen Gray]

**Spoiler:** It's gonna be pretty awesome.

I friggin hate you....




pmsl. Ok I don't but still... WAH!

 

[Jennifer Stone]

I friggin hate you....




pmsl. Ok I don't but still... WAH!

You've got mine to keep you going for now, lassie.

 

[Karen Gray]

You've got mine to keep you going for now, lassie.

I know all of it mwahahahahaha!!!

I was thinking about yours actually. Will email you later but it's about still having the "trilogy" but releasing it as 1 book... will email you later tonight when I get a sec x