Thank you so much! It was the most extraordinary surprise, believe me. I was really nervous beforehand, thinkig everyone was going to hate it and rip it to shreds.Fantastic show. WELL DONE @Webbwalker , I am so thrilled you won
I enjoyed almost all of the submissions. I was particularly impressed by the Shelley tale, it was beautifully written, I thought.Fun show today! Lots of great submissions.
Congrats again! 
I’m more than happy for you to read more if you'd really like to, though the commune is over and done in the first chapter as the story moves on to ghostly stuff. I think I need to go to work on those chapters. I was blown away by my reception on pop-ups, I really wasn’t expecting the thing to be so well received. It was rejected 25 times last year, mostly form rejections; 8 agents simply never replied at all, so I’d assumed my writing must be terrible and only put it up for Pop-Ups in hope of finding out what was wrong with it. So I have to assume the problem is with subsequent chapters - unless my query letter is so dreadful, agents are not getting beyond it (but I don’t think it’s that).
Goodness gracious, thank you for that, that’s high praise indeed! I think (I’d have to check) I may have included a comparison to TLB in a query before. I usually research the agent, and try to find out what they like or who they already represent, and angle my pitch accordingly, so I’ve compared my novel to a fair few other books.
Lately I’ve been comparing it to The Goldfinch and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. And now I’m wondering if that might be a confusing and off-putting juxtaposition.
Thanks so much. I'm still getting over it.Yes, that was an interesting one as well. Yours was the standout, though.
Thank you!
LolLook forward to seeing you down thebearpitfulcrum of geniuscaff
