Tor Open Submissions for Novellas - May 2018 and July 2018

I'm a regular frontrunner compared to you slowcoaches. I'm only 157th in the queue now, so still a good few weeks to go.

I just said to Pete that when you see the raw numbers in front of you like this it does kind of hit home how slim the odds are of being picked up in this way. Which can be rather depressing. Ho hum. You gotta do what you gotta do what you gotta do, right?
 
Dan Jones said:
I'm a regular frontrunner compared to you slowcoaches. I'm only 157th in the queue now, so still a good few weeks to go.

I just said to Pete that when you see the raw numbers in front of you like this it does kind of hit home how slim the odds are of being picked up in this way. Which can be rather depressing. Ho hum. You gotta do what you gotta do what you gotta do, right?
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@Serendipity is up next re a response, then you. I got mine in 4 hours before deadline so it's expected that I'm a slowcoach haha!

Yes, the odds are slim but 1 in 738 is still better odds than 1 in thousands that agents and publishers probably get for their slushpiles of novels. Novellas aren't that popular a length (though now that I've written it, I do like it as it's longer than a short story but half to a third of the length of a full novel - good for stories that need to be short-ish but with rich worldbuilding details).
 
Yeah I agree. I've written three novellas now but this is the first time I've done something with any of them. I think they're a neat way of getting the experience of writing a series but without the brainache or sheer commitment to time that novels demand, and I definitely want to write a few more of them.

Plus, some of the greats have turned their hands to novellas over the years - Orwell, Lovecraft, Murakami, Coetzee, plus loads more of whom I can't think because it's too early in the morning - so the format must have something going for it.
 
A story length is the story length, short, novelette, novella, novel, trilogy, too many do count novels series... novellas are comfortable (IMHO) for being taster stories for one-idea-significant-impact themes. Not too short so the readers are left scratching their heads wondering what they have missed and not too long to stop readers getting bored with the finer implications.

For info, I'm sitting at 50 in the queue, eying toenails for biting as fingernails now nonexistent.
 
Well done to everyone who subbed. Commiserations to those out of the running. Fingers crossed for those still in the race! Unfortunately, life hit me in the face with a frying pan, so my WIP became a whimper. There's always next time...
 
I can confirm it's not the Moksha system being down as by quirk of fate I have another story subbed to another market going through that system. So it's Tor.com... maybe having a group hug somewhere?
 
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