YA Forum Quick Update (wip,submissions etc)

Becca C.

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ARGH okay so I've now sent 30 queries total, with 15 rejects, 3 full requests (1 rejected), and 2 partial requests (1 rejected). 10 queries pending.

I feel like such a failure but it's really not such a bad request rate so far, is it? I'm bad at math, but I think it's a 25% request rate on all the answers I've heard back.
 

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WIP:
Somehow You're Sitting Here (NALS #1) - YA Contemporary - 60,000 words

Dependent on Sales:
Holding On (NALS #2) -- YA Contemporary
As We Go (NALS #2.5) -- YA Contemporary Novella
Somehow There's Still Sunlight (NALS #3) -- YA Contemporary
The World Is Ending (NALS #3.5) -- YA Contemporary AU


Percolating in my brain:
Project: Ventana -- YA Contemporary in Verse
10 Rules for Dating my Dying Daughter -- YA Contemporary
Project: Lucifer -- YA Paranormal
Project: Allyson (SS #1) -- YA Contemporary
Project: HOB&W (SS #2) -- YA Contemporary / Paranormal
Project: Ghosts -- YA Contemporary / Paranormal
Electra Heart -- Jukebox musical, inspired by the music of Marina Diamandis
 

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I'm currently editing my first novel, which will be YA. Not sure when it will be ready to query, but the process is going well so far.
 

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A Diamond for You (Fancy Love #1)

WIPs:
Unearthly
The Hotel Kincaid
Black & Gold


Outlining:
Veruca Starship
The Forgotten Life of Desiree King
Bargirl
 

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I Have No Name (Book 1 in trilogy) (Yeah! So happy to be finished!)

WIPS
Book 2 (No Name Trilogy)
Book 3 (No Name Trilogy)

Mulling in Brain
Fantasy - Jane Eyre meets Assassins Creed meets Lunar Chronicles
Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic/Sci-Fi - X-Men meets Red Dawn
Sc-Fi Re-telling - Science Fiction re-telling of Last of the Mohicans
 

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On Submission:
I Have No Name

WIP:
Untitled - Sc-fi inspired by Last of the Mohicans

Percolating in my brain:
Lot's of stories, but they become heavily muted when I'm concentrating on a story. It's pretty much all I can think about.
 

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Submitting news: still waiting for final line edits from agent, once that's done it's going on sub.

WIP: revising FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN. Good feelings about this one.

Next on deck: three projects grappling for my attention! A YA historical, another YA family-centric contemp, and randomly, an adult fantasy-romance novella. Weirdness.
 

IdrisG

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The Forgotten Life of Desiree King
The Hotel Kincaid

Outlining
Beyond the Sea - YA Poseidon Adventure
The Love Spares - NA Contemporary LGBT
 

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WIPs:

1- Secret titled science fiction set in Scandinavia

2- Untitled science fiction set in a space station. This one has been especially challenging for me; the MC has a mild form of Spina Bifida Occulta, so research is a must! I wrote a good chunk of the story before the MC suddenly had SBO (don't you hate when they throw something at you?) so now I'm going back and adding it all in!

Nothing else on my plate at the moment!
 

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Girls Chase Girls - LGBT short story

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The Love Spares
Punk & Mozart
 

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Revising my YA Fantasy, hope to query by the end of May.

Outlining another YA Fantasy-- initial idea was assassain heavy, trying to see if it works with a healing type instead.
 

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Currently working on a revise and resubmit for a great publisher, but sort of hoping to land an agent before sending back to the editor. This novel has been killing me lately, but I'm hopeful that I've just reached a turning point!

I have another (shinier, newer, more beguiling!) WIP, but am forcing myself to put it aside to finish these revisions.
 

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Hey everyone, great thread.

I recently released my YA Fantasy book on Amazon. Here's the UK link, but it's available everywhere in the world.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01A3L1PS6/?tag=absowrit-21


The lonely and grieving Evan Umbra is the newest Venator to enter Veneseron, the school for demon hunters.

A Venator is a wizard, a spy and a demon hunter rolled into one. They’re taught how to wield their sorcery and enchanted weaponry by Orcs, Elfpires and Aliens alike.
Their missions range from battling monsters and saving countless lives in the multiple worlds, to the more peculiar, like finding stray dog-dragons and calming down drunken Yetti’s.
In their free time Venators enjoy goblin soap-opera’s and underwater bubble travel, but they also understand that every new mission they’re given could be their last.
Whilst learning how to manipulate the elements, summon creatures to fight for him and shoot Spellzooka’s, Evan encounters a dangerous rival and meets a girl who makes him feel nauseous; but in a good way. He makes the first friends he’s ever had in the carefree Jed and the reckless Brooke. But it soon becomes apparent that Evan is more than just a Venator. Everyone wants to kill or capture him, from demons to Dark-Venators and even people he’s supposed to be able to trust.

Evan reckons he probably won’t survive his first year at Veneseron.