Hodderscape Open Submission Window

Sorry to see there's been further R's. Please accept hugs of sympathy and imaginary chocolate...

The Brave Fallen:

Tirellan - Oct 22nd
Harebrain - Oct 22nd
Boneman - Oct 22nd
Ray McCarthy - Oct 30th
AnyaKimlin - Nov 3rd
Serendipity - Nov 9th
Jo Zebedee - Nov 18th
MemoryTale - Dec 10th
Jarshen - Dec 10th
Cynric - Dec 10th

The Brave who Fought On, but Fell:

Chopper - Mar 22nd
ctg - Mar 22nd
prizzley - Mar 22nd
pambaddleley - Mar 22nd
amicalia - Mar 22nd
David Evil Overlord - Mar 31st
Gonk the Insane - Mar 31st
Mouse - Mar 31st (probably this date)

May their pens rise like phoenixes to enchant us in the future...

The Valiant who Remain Standing:


Alc
Kerrybuchanan
vgunn
anthorn
E.Maree

Good luck!

PS I know someone thought Alc was also out, but having previously blundered, I thought I would err on the side of caution.
 
Mouse said:
However, TBM (a full of which is currently with the Donald Maas agency - I'm terrified, and expecting my rejection any time soon), got a super lovely personal rejection.
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I've probably missed you, @Mouse, but hi anyway and congratulations on the lovely personalised response. I dream of getting one of those -- although a request for a full would be even better of course!

Commiserations to all those who've gone out today and the other days. I am dreading the moment when I finally crack and ask Hodderscape for an update, only to discover I was actually rejected in the first round but the email got lost in the ether. This is the only submission I've ever kept a track of -- the others I just send and forget, but the atmosphere with this one has been electric from day 1. Enjoying the ride while it lasts. :D
 
I'm glad Mouse got personalised feedback, as did those at autumn, for some reason they decided that those in the middle weren't worth of more then a standard rejection. I respect them, as I respect you guys, but just a couple words could have been better than a standard rejection. It makes me think personalised rejection I received earlier. Especially the way on how my betas behaved - after reading a copy - before Chris did first round of a copy-edit.

I know that a lot of us know how to write a good fiction. Jo is just a star example from that collection. Not the norm that rest of us mortals seem to be falling into. If you made into the second round and received a rejection, they had to see some good, and possibly exciting things, in your writing. No matter what stage of edit you were into, when you sent in the sample, you were good.

Hodderscape wasn't what they were looking for, and even at the end, it's a business decision. Possibly to a section they think will bring most value over time, because whoever it is that gets chosen knows how to write. 1/1500 is pretty small number.

By now that chance has got higher. But I know, all of you know how to write. If not, then you're in wrong business.
 
By now that chance has got higher. But I know, all of you know how to write. If not, then you're in wrong business.[/QUOTE]

Gosh! Will you be my standard bearer. That was so rousing! <3
 
pambaddeley said:
that wasn't totally a standard email
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Ah, I'd missed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

I read between the lines to a certain extent so what I actually read was "You're so totally awesome we can't publish anything because the world might literally end."
Which is pretty much what they said, right?:whistle:
 
Commiserations and cups of tea for the lovely fallen folks.

@Mouse, that's some really encouraging, personalised feedback! Seems like we're on similar publishing tracks (I've got a full with DMA too!) so I'm definitely going to need to say hi on Twitter, I'm @emaree on there.
 
I just wondered who or what DMA are? I know I'm going to being going 'DOH!' when you tell me :D
 
Haha, yeah, I meant that agency! Sorry for the confusion, I get paranoid about being 'googleable' chatting about queries so I can be a bit vague talking about the query trenches.

My Hodder form rej came through yesterday at half past five. I am proud to be in the company of some really wonderful rejected writers. :) Onwards and upwards!
 
Commiserations, @E.Maree and you're right about the quality of the folks from here who've subbed and had Rs. I'm guessing Hodderscape must have a really tight list of what they're looking for in terms of story content, so they don't clash with their existing authors. There's no other logical reason why some of the writers on here would have been rejected otherwise!

I become more convinced with each passing day that my own rejection must have got lost in the ether somewhere -- or it's arrived and I've inadvertently binned it with a bunch of other stuff.
 
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