Fanfare! Submission Gong

[Alistair Roberts]

Then you have periods when you get sick of submitting? Guess self kicking time then ensues and finally you start the process all over again. It really is the preverbial brick wall but someone has to hit it!!

 

[Emurelda]

Then you have periods when you get sick of submitting? Guess self kicking time then ensues and finally you start the process all over again. It really is the preverbial brick wall but someone has to hit it!!

I haven't reached that yet. Still get a kick out of it..and the reciprocal kind that you mention

 

[Emurelda]

Oh yeah! It's come back to me.

One unconventional route is to turn unsolicited ms into solicited ms by writing to an editor and ask directly. If they don't respond then that's fine but if they do then it is no longer an unsolicited MS. I thought that was a neat fyi.

 

[Nicole Wilson]

In an effort to make me feel better about my last rejection, I've submitted another one. Yay!

 

[Emurelda]

In an effort to make me feel better about my last rejection, I've submitted another one. Yay!

Yey!

I'm trying to get my stuff together for fist physical submissions. Actually excited to shop for envelopes!

 

[Emurelda]

What a day!

Took me a while but after getting the labels, envelopes and the folders ready, I printed off the submission pack with a new letter inserted in each. I've also included a starter deck to show them it is completely ready for accompaniment to the first book.

4 submission; wham! bam! shazam!

2 conventional routes ie 2 agents
2 unconventional - of which one is a publisher that doesn't accept unsolicited MSS and the other is a major contact I already know but hadn't used before today. However, I think it is worth trying. He was very kind to me in the past and hopefully he might give me a few tips/leads or whatever he deems appropriate for the project. Assuming he's not too busy.

 

[Emurelda]

In the physical tester I must admit I am relying on the visuals to hopefully capture attention. How can they not love this guy for instance...

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Meet Gwyn the Welsh Penguin

 

[Karen Gray]

Hehe cute

 

[Emurelda]

Hehe cute

I printed him off onto a label and added SUBMISSION ENCLOSED under him. Stuck it at the top left corner of the package. Hopefully it quickens the speed to open up the goodies awaiting inside!

 

[Meerkat]

Dong, dong, dong. Submitted three stories this weekend.

I had more I had ready to submit, but the markets I had picked out wanted stories under 4k words, and all the rest were longer than that.

I'm not really expecting anything out of it. One has already been rejected twice. The second has been rejected once. The third is fresh.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Dong dong dong dong, two for yesterday, two for today. Not that I'm hopefully...

 

[Emurelda]

Good luck with your submissions! What a high!

Am in the wrong thread ...got another ...sniffle sniffle....excuse me.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

GONG! My first submission for a long time, let's hope the revisions pay off.

 

[Jason Byrne]

GONG! My first submission for a long time, let's hope the revisions pay off.

BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!
Big revision gongs feel the best.

 

[Emurelda]

GONG! My first submission for a long time, let's hope the revisions pay off.

Good luck! Am revising mine now. But I just can't seem to see what's wrong with my first 4 chapters...I might have to go back to the houses with them.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Good luck! Am revising mine now. But I just can't seem to see what's wrong with my first 4 chapters...I might have to go back to the houses with them.

You could pm them to me and i'll take a look. I'm not a professional editor or anything but I'll give it a read

 

[Emurelda]

Thanks Jennifer! I really appreciate it.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

Thanks Jennifer! I really appreciate it.

It's what we're all here for my dear.

 

[Emurelda]

It's what we're all here for my dear.

I think I'm panicking

 

[Emurelda]

Just sent...put on your agent eyes

 

[Meerkat]

DONG.

Submitted a story yesterday. This one was sent *gasp* snail mail. It took me all of Sunday to write that abominable cover letter and format the thing. I HATE COVER LETTERS.

 

[Jennifer Stone]

I shall ring a query gong, having just sent a query to Long Barn Books. Their submission guidelines say to query first. Hopefully they shall reply wanting to see a sample or maybe the whole thing.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

Dong! First submission of the all-new improved awesome manuscript! (trying to keep a little optimism here...if I say it enough times, maybe I'll believe it).

 

[Nicole Wilson]

Woo hoo! Good job, Robinne!

 

[Emurelda]

Well done ladies..a thrice gong attack. Good luck! Am editing MS to hopefully start the process again.

 

[Alistair Roberts]

Another sent out, after I edited it from comments on the next novel; thanks

 

[Robinne Weiss]

DONG! Another submission...snail mail this time...ooo! Haven't done that since the early 1990s when I was submitting poems from my mud hut in Panama! Getting them printed was a nightmare! Required a day's trip to the city to use the Peace Corps office computer (yeah, supposed to be strictly PC business...I surreptitiously printed my poems between drafts of the native tree propagation manual I was writing for PC)...ah, those were the days.

 

[Rochelle]

I think this is a good idea. I would also do the same as you if there were some Fantasy publishers out there that accepted direct submissions. They are few and far between. But that doesn't mean I won't keep looking So for now, I will ding that GONG for the David Fickling submission I did x

There are publishers that accept unsolicited manuscripts
https://joanyedwards.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/32-publishers-who-accept-unsolicited-manuscripts/
And a lot of those 32 take fantasy.

 

[Karen Gray]

Thanks for that @Rochelle , though i've since published my MS and am about to publish my 2nd in December and 3rd in May

Really useful info for some of the others though

 

[Emurelda]

There are publishers that accept unsolicited manuscripts
https://joanyedwards.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/32-publishers-who-accept-unsolicited-manuscripts/
And a lot of those 32 take fantasy.

That's brilliant..thx for this. Just going through it now.