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submissions season
Feb. 22nd, 2015 10:21 pmI've been busy this weekend. The story at Musa isn't offically reverted until the 28th, but I sent it off to an editor friend on Friday night, followed by the reversion letter once I had my mitts on it on Saturday morning. Since it's a reprint this will probably come to naught, but I'm not going to have the time or energy to do anything about self-publishing it for some months, and it may come in useful if she needs a short at short notice.
I then spent some considerable time wrestling with Word 2013, which is the iteration installed on my new computer. It isn't much like Word 2010, which is the version I occasionally reluctantly prodded with a stick on the old machine, and is utterly unlike the Word 2003 I am obliged to use at work, let alone my dearly beloved Lotus Word Pro. I think I could eventually get used to it, but it was a somewhat traumatic experience getting the other two items for submission into a modern file format. Auto-format did some decidedly odd things to the novella file I'd exported from Word Pro to Word 2003 file format. Importing the individual chapter files in .txt format for the novel submission went moderately smoothly once I'd worked out what the file import command was called and where to find it in the shiny new (to me) ribbon.
The novella was the new thing I've been whining about for the last month. It did eventually creep to the 20k mark, but I've still sent it to the market I was eying when I thought it was going to be 17k. Contemporary m/m erotic romance, and oh so hurt/comfort.
The novel... The novel last went out on submission as treeware to a couple of mainstream SF houses. The novel also got an agent's attention prior to that. The agent said he couldn't sell it, but he wanted to see the next thing I wrote. The next thing I wrote was a romance novel. And the next one after that. And... you can see where this is going. The novel has romantic elements, but it is not a romance. Then I got the extended bout of medical issues and stopped writing at all for some years. And in the meantime more small presses have come along, and one of them looks like it might be a good fit. So that went off as well today.
And now I should get back to the novel I was 30k into when I felt the urge to fiddle with the novelette and turn it into a novella...
I then spent some considerable time wrestling with Word 2013, which is the iteration installed on my new computer. It isn't much like Word 2010, which is the version I occasionally reluctantly prodded with a stick on the old machine, and is utterly unlike the Word 2003 I am obliged to use at work, let alone my dearly beloved Lotus Word Pro. I think I could eventually get used to it, but it was a somewhat traumatic experience getting the other two items for submission into a modern file format. Auto-format did some decidedly odd things to the novella file I'd exported from Word Pro to Word 2003 file format. Importing the individual chapter files in .txt format for the novel submission went moderately smoothly once I'd worked out what the file import command was called and where to find it in the shiny new (to me) ribbon.
The novella was the new thing I've been whining about for the last month. It did eventually creep to the 20k mark, but I've still sent it to the market I was eying when I thought it was going to be 17k. Contemporary m/m erotic romance, and oh so hurt/comfort.
The novel... The novel last went out on submission as treeware to a couple of mainstream SF houses. The novel also got an agent's attention prior to that. The agent said he couldn't sell it, but he wanted to see the next thing I wrote. The next thing I wrote was a romance novel. And the next one after that. And... you can see where this is going. The novel has romantic elements, but it is not a romance. Then I got the extended bout of medical issues and stopped writing at all for some years. And in the meantime more small presses have come along, and one of them looks like it might be a good fit. So that went off as well today.
And now I should get back to the novel I was 30k into when I felt the urge to fiddle with the novelette and turn it into a novella...