Hodderscape Open Submission Window

[Hex]

This has puzzled me. How did we know Mouse was subbing?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

It is indeed very sad news - @Hex I think someone else mentioned she had.

 

[Hex]

Maybe we'll hear from them, then.

 

[HareBrain]

Behold the evidence of my unsurpassed technical wizardry and searching skills!

Add Mouse to that list...

pH

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Behold the evidence of my unsurpassed technical wizardry and searching skills!

Like an amazing mouse searching thorough a technological wizard's maze to find the cheese.

 

[chopper]

i must have missed something here - can anybody pm owt?

 

[ctg]

Cheryl asked:
November 20, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Just wondering if others are still waiting?

Anne Perry answered:
November 23, 2015 at 9:43 am
The short answer is yes – we’re finishing our first reads of all the submissions, and have not yet fed back on those we haven’t read yet (or those which we’ll be reading a second time).

http://hodderscape.co.uk/hodderscape-open-submissions-update/

Will they ask partials or full ones for the second round, is still an open question. I think it would be a progress, if they did.

 

[Gonk the Insane]

Does anyone else find the reply slightly confusing? Surely, if they've finished first reads of all submissions then there aren't any that fall into the category of "those we haven't read yet" - which would suggest everything that hasn't been rejected yet is up for a second read?

Of course, maybe I read it wrong (it's been a long day) and I've finally lost my fragile grip on reality

 

[Hex]

It's not just you. I think the issue is "We're finishing our first reads of all the submissions" i.e. have not yet finished.

 

[Gonk the Insane]

i.e. have not yet finished.

Ah. Totally misread it. Thanks!

 

[Hex]

I did too. Long day here as well

 

[Ray McCarthy]

I think the issue is "We're finishing our first reads of all the submissions" i.e. have not yet finished.

This why they buy books to publish and don't write them themselves.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

Write.

Um, I mean rite.

Um, or right.

 

[pambaddeley]

Sorry, can't now find who posted it as I read it yesterday before joining, but thanks to whoever pointed out that Anne Perry had put an update in a thread on their October post, as I hadn't thought of looking in the comments. So either they haven't yet read mine ... or it is on a second round.

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

This link was posted on another forum. Suzi Burrows on Twitter

Looks like we might hear something new next week.

 

[David Evil Overlord]

*crosses fingers*

 

[pambaddeley]

Thanks Kerry.

 

[Gonk the Insane]

we might hear something new next week.

Another week?
*Collapses to knees, raises arms, tips head back like that scene in Platoon and wails*
Noooooooooooooooo!
They were a little off with their initial estimate of when they'd be finished by

And, by a little I mean...
I could have gone on a little jaunt to a swamp, learned (if I hadn't already) how to be a jedi, ignored my master's advice (because nothing bad will ever happen if you do that), faced off against an armoured goth, discovered that

Spoiler

said armoured goth is actually my father

then, in a freak industrial accident lost

Spoiler

a hand

before, you know, generally sorting things out for the galaxy at large. And I'd still be back in time to get the Email of Infinite Doom/Awesomeness from Hodderscape.

*deep breath*
I am a writer, like my father before me...

 

[thaddeus6th]

"You have been drafted well, but you are not a novel yet."

 

[Ray McCarthy]

And I'd still be back in time to get the Email of Infinite Doom/Awesomeness from Hodderscape

More than one person wondered "which year".