Tor opening for short fiction 1st October

[prizzley]

Well, I've submitted my short story. It's only 2,000 words - Jo, please note - but I'm happy with it. Good luck everyone!

 

[ratsy]

Come to think of it, I may have something to submit here. May as well give it a try.

 

[Juliana]

I sent something in yesterday, it's around 3000. Not holding my breath; serious competition for a Tor slot, with lots of well-established authors in the mix. But hey, I figured I might as well!

 

[ratsy]

Yes, why not indeed. Trying to crack one of the top markets is something we should be trying to do, because you never know. I mean, look at all the cool things Chrons people are doing these days!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Well my first attempt confused most of the betas.

 

[yorelm]

I've recently joined and have been perusing the site and found all sorts of great material. I'm really glad I caught this one because I think I have just the story the might accept. Thank you for the info.

 

[BobPage]

I just sent em' a story rejected by someone else.

My pulse is now pounding, my blood pressure is now rising, palms sweaty & I don't know if I can take months of this type of suspense! AH!

 

[ratsy]

Yeah I wonder how long it will take them. On the Grinder, it says they currently have 86 pending responses, and that is just that one site. But to be fair, if they weren't open for submissions for most of those with an average of 110 days waiting, they wouldn't have replied to them.

Will probably be a long haul. I like how they say, send one, if it's rejected send another...This could take a while!

 

[yorelm]

Well, what's cool is that they allow simultaneous subs, so I plan to take advantage of that.

 

[Dan Jones]

Yes, most reasonable places realise you can't put your life on hold while waiting for your piece to be fished out of the slush pile.

Keep on subbing.

 

[ratsy]

I thought it said no simu subs?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I thought it said no simu subs?

I'm pretty sure they did, too

 

[yorelm]

I'm so glad that was caught early. Yes I made an error and confused it with another site I visited that same day. Tor's exact words were, "please don't."
Damn!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Well, I'm in. Let's see. In the meantime, I have a new short that needs writing, as well as that ol' book of mine to get back to.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Cheers for the heads up, and those posting about their own short word counts.

Might be able to submit something to this, although there doesn't appear to be a deadline.

Edited extra bit: should the submission be double-spaced?

 

[ratsy]

I went with Standard Manuscript form, so double spaced.

 

[thaddeus6th]

Aye, I ended up doing that [I'm impatient ].

Now I'm wondering if it's worth writing a novella and just keeping it somewhere for when that window opens (a follow-up to the Zodiac Eclipse serial could work nicely in that regard).

 

[LittleStar]

I submitted a 'short' for this a couple of days ago... My only worry is that it weighed in at a hefty 15k!

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

They did say potentially up to 17k didn't they?

 

[Juliana]

My only worry is that it weighed in at a hefty 15k!

They did say potentially up to 17k didn't they?

Remembering that Tor.com also has a novella imprint now... Not sure what the sub process is for that.