Great news!!!

That's fab news Josh! Funny how it always comes at just the right time....

Now just try not to chew your fingernails down to the knuckle :D
 
Congratulations Josh. This year is somehow - even if it has been through terrible times - somehow looking better, isn't it? So do keep trusting in your MS and most importantly to your craft, as if they asked for a full, they must see something in it.

Just think about what happened with the HV competition and especially me and springs. I got among last five hundred and springs inside the hundred. And they still not finished with it.

So, stay positive because this is positive news. You got something that a group of people wants to read.
 
A very strange thing; the lady who replied is the principle editor of their YA imprint Strange Chemistry. At first, this concerned me, as many here said that there was a bit of a YA feel to the small sample I put up, but later on there is definitely some adult content.

However, the open door was through AR, and they specified they were looking for books for ADULTS (they even italicized it), not to mention what I sent them definitely had adult content in it (elf sex, violence, profanity).
 
WriterJosh said:
The funk was brought on by multiple rejections of short stories, including one I got yesterday from Tor.
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I wouldn't worry about that--it's extremely difficult to get into ANY of the pro-paying markets without prior pro-paying publications (and particularly Tor.com). That is, of course, a bit of a Catch-22, but that's unfortunately how it works. Living in Los Angeles and knowing a lot of aspiring actors, I can tell you that it works the exact same way for them--get one thing and others follow, even if the product you hawk isn't any different at point A or point B.

Shopping short stories around is just a painful slog and you just have to keep at it.

...and congrats on the good news!
 
Nerds_feather said:
I wouldn't worry about that--it's extremely difficult to get into ANY of the pro-paying markets without prior pro-paying publications (and particularly Tor.com). That is, of course, a bit of a Catch-22, but that's unfortunately how it works. Living in Los Angeles and knowing a lot of aspiring actors, I can tell you that it works the exact same way for them--get one thing and others follow, even if the product you hawk isn't any different at point A or point B.

Shopping short stories around is just a painful slog and you just have to keep at it.

...and congrats on the good news!
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Thank you. And as for Tor.com, in all our correspondence they were obviously not just sending form letters (they joked around with me and responded directly to things I'd said) so when they sent the rejection, I believed them when they said "It was clever and interesting, and very well-written, so we are confident you'll sell it elsewhere."
 
I'm not jealous or in the least envious. (Cough).
Really mate, well done and good luck.
 
Many crongrats. :D Fingers crossed for you.

Might I ask when you submitted? Just to give me an idea when my rejection will arrive.
 
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