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[Singers]

I have two other friends who are still in the running too. Good luck to everybody x

 

[Serendipity]

Sorry to see another R.... loads of imaginary dark chocolate beign sent your way E.Maree

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
Alc- (probably) Mar 22nd
David Evil Overlord - Mar 31st
Gonk the Insane - Mar 31st
Mouse - Mar 31st (probably this date)
E.Maree - Apr 6th

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

The Valiant who Remain Standing:

Kerrybuchanan
vgunn
anthorn

Good luck!

 

[sinister42]

I actually submitted to this as well. Got a no. Sad face.

 

[Singers]

I actually submitted to this as well. Got a no. Sad face.

Hugs, Hugz & H. U. G. S X

 

[E.Maree]

Aw, sorry to hear it @sinister42. (But welcome to the club! We've got chocolate and tea!)

 

[sinister42]

It was a long shot - I sent them 25,000 words of a novel I hadn't (and still haven't) finished yet, and which just wasn't ready. Spent hours polishing the synopsis and getting the thing as close to ready as I could. I had heard of the contest a week before it ended, and just decided to go for it. Nothing ventured and all that, right?

 

[SPBSPEC]

Hi All, I've been hovering for a couple of months but only just joined up. Sorry for everyone who has received the rejections. Haven't received mine yet. Yet, being the operative word of the sentence.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Hi All, I've been hovering for a couple of months but only just joined up. Sorry for everyone who has received the rejections. Haven't received mine yet. Yet, being the operative word of the sentence.

Congrats for staying in, and welcome to the chrons forums.

 

[SPBSPEC]

Congrats for staying in, and welcome to the chrons forums.

Thanks Brian

 

[E.Maree]

Welcome and all the very best of luck, SPB!

 

[SPBSPEC]

Thanks good to be here

Welcome and all the very best of luck, SPB!

 

[ctg]

Welcome from me as well.

Haven't received mine yet. Yet, being the operative word of the sentence.

Why do you expect receiving a rejection? They are getting closer and closer for asking partials, or even full ones. To be honest, I would have expected them to ask more partials on subjects that fall within their interests. They know the material they've in their hands and it has to be good to compete with King, Heinlein, Frank Herbert and other big ones.

But, as I said, it's a business decision at the end. And I think Jo mentioned something about Harper Voyager winners not be seen anywhere. That their sale rank number was with six digits, not four or less.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Jo mentioned something about Harper Voyager winners not be seen anywhere

The winners from that are listed here:
HarperVoyager signs 15 in open submission fortnight | The Bookseller

But all their paperbacks cost £13.99, ie: Graynelore: Amazon.co.uk: Stephen Moore: 9780008120474: Books

That's only 450% more expensive than the bestseller Game of Thrones, published by the same company.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

The winners from that are listed here:
HarperVoyager signs 15 in open submission fortnight | The Bookseller

But all their paperbacks cost £13.99, ie: Graynelore: Amazon.co.uk: Stephen Moore: 9780008120474: Books

That's only 450% more expensive than the bestseller Game of Thrones, published by the same company.

They were set up to be primarily an e-book sales market, so I think reviewing the Amazon kindle rankings might be the best way to ascertain how successful it was.

 

[SPBSPEC]

Welcome from me as well.



Why do you expect receiving a rejection? They are getting closer and closer for asking partials, or even full ones. To be honest, I would have expected them to ask more partials on subjects that fall within their interests. They know the material they've in their hands and it has to be good to compete with King, Heinlein, Frank Herbert and other big ones.

But, as I said, it's a business decision at the end. And I think Jo mentioned something about Harper Voyager winners not be seen anywhere. That their sale rank number was with six digits, not four or less.

Just a lack of confidence thing really. The fact that I've survived this far feels like a mistake☺

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

They know the material they've in their hands and it has to be good to compete with King, Heinlein, Frank Herbert and other big ones.

I wish you hadn't said that....

Just a lack of confidence thing really. The fact that I've survived this far feels like a mistake☺

This is exactly how I feel too. I wonder how @anthorn and @vgunn feel about it. I see vgunn hasn't been seen on here since October last year, though, so I guess I'm unlikely to get an answer from that quarter!

 

[Droflet]

The Mouse is back. Yay!!!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Just a lack of confidence thing really. The fact that I've survived this far feels like a mistake☺

I think that's very normal. I'm published now and still astonished when anyone likes anything. I think, with time, though, confidence does improve.

 

[Singers]

I'm hanging on some news from literary mags. They are way past their usual deadline for contact. Apparently, this may mean it has gone to the Editor's Table. <.< And, to make everybody feel better, I have a very talented friend who is repped in Australia by one of the Big Ones with her first novel, and she didn't make it past the third reading either. So, this late on I don't believe it is to do with talent, just business x

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

So, this late on I don't believe it is to do with talent, just business x

That's rather insulting to those who are still in it.