Angry Robot Books 2 month open sub!!

Good luck to everyone who submits!

Good luck to everyone! I love Angry Robot, just wish I had a book ready.

wish I could write faster. The only book I have ready is the one I submitted to them the last open sub, which they rejected.

Oooh, good to know. I don't have one finished now, but am (almost) in the middle of an UF right now. Let's see if I can finish, beta, and polish it up in time.

Bummer. Yet again you open while I'm stuck on a deadline for somebody else. Curses!

**runs about flailing**

**sings** "It's the MOST. Wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeeear..."

*twitches*

This is what I get for looking at the New Posts button....

I could completely finish editing my MS in two months. It's just the nitty gritty stuff like finding 'that' and fixing dialogue at this point. But...but...*passes out*

I just gave myself the worst case of the butterflies. Eep.

cool I should be finished by then! Think I'll try find an agent first though.
Good luck to everyone else.

I laughed at this on their submission page:

You’re open until the end of the year, huh? Cool – I’ll send you my Nanowrimo book.
Hmmm.

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I've got a quick question please, if I may. I'm working on a sci-fi manuscript, and I was considering popping it into the Strange Chemistry YA open slot, but even had I finished it in time, I didn't think it would quite fit.

Basically, my main character is ten years old, and your guidelines say that younger protagonists should go to SC - but it's not a kids book, or YA. It's a novel for adults, just with a kid as the main character. Is it still something you're willing to look at?

When does this open door officially start? I didn't catch a definitive date on your website.

I do have a real masher for you--urban fantasy, ghost/thriller/time travel--four books condensed into one, meaning four different character plot lines at 100 pages apiece that merge at the end.

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Debeucci said:

Why does it have to be one before the other?

I didn't.

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I'm a bit worried that an agent will be less inclined to represent me if my manuscript has been shopped around.

Going to one publisher isn't shopping around.

I subbed my book to AR's 2011 open door period. I got a revise and resubmit, so after I revised, I queried agents. Because I had existing interest I went to the top of the pile and was read quickly. I got an agent 2 days before the publication offer, and my agent negotiated me a better deal. It worked out pretty well!

(I subbed as adult but it ended up being shuffled over to their at-the-time new YA imprint, Strange Chemistry).

Okay, so anything after Friday, I assume, is a safe bet.

I both wish I had something completely finished and edited to send off right now, as well as...well...the idea of submitting for publishing still scares the crap out of me cause I just feel like I'm so in the dark on everything that I'll be laughed out or something. I don't know, stupid stuff.

I probably should do something like this, but I'd imagine the time table might make it so I wouldn't have things finished to send in.

Hmm I don't know....we'll see I suppose. I know I need to be making myself get past this block by doing stuff like this, but, it's super easy to just write write write and do only that.

Thanks for the heads up. If nothing else it's something to be thinking about.

I knew absolutely nothing about publication when I submitted. You're ahead of the curve by being on here already.

lauralam said:

I knew absolutely nothing about publication when I submitted. You're ahead of the curve by being on here already.

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I know that logically, but the rest of my head likes to screw with that.
Not to get into it and clutter this up much but I had a traumatic event, something happened with a loved one that was essentially the one handling the me getting published side, so it's kind of tied up in that particular block.

So logic vs irrational mind.

It'll make a good story someday lol

I have no idea if I'm capable of getting what I'm working done and ready in time to submit for this, but I'm gonna try to use it as fuel for the fire if nothing else.

AW has been and awesome find. Glad I ran into it, the places I had found through google searches were so sadly horrible it was depressing.

Viciouspen said:

I both wish I had something completely finished and edited to send off right now, as well as...well...the idea of submitting for publishing still scares the crap out of me cause I just feel like I'm so in the dark on everything that I'll be laughed out or something. I don't know, stupid stuff.

I probably should do something like this, but I'd imagine the time table might make it so I wouldn't have things finished to send in.

Hmm I don't know....we'll see I suppose. I know I need to be making myself get past this block by doing stuff like this, but, it's super easy to just write write write and do only that.

Thanks for the heads up. If nothing else it's something to be thinking about.

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You're going to get laughed out of something in this industry, or criticised or broken down and if it isn't by a publisher its will be a critic or a reader, or a crazy person who thinks real people should have real jobs- no matter how confident you are in your writing. If it doesn't happen here it will happen in some other area. Damned if you do, damned if you don't, so you might as well go ahead and do it and come stand in naughty corner with the rest of us, and we can laugh at each other

That kind of stuff isn't what bothers me. I mean one of the first wins I got was the college writing contest that erupted into a big arguement over the short story I had submitted. Half of the english department loved it, the other half wanted it tied to a stake and burned
So that stuff I'm fine with.

It's more the idea of just wandering in and being some rube that doesn't know things they need to know, because I have no idea that I don't know them, then screwing something up cause I don't know.

It's not a logical thing, it's just a voice in the back of my head being stupid.

I have no idea if I'm capable of getting what I'm working on done enough to submit a manuscript in time, but I'll be using it as a goal if nothing else, so either I'll get it done and do it, or the worst case scenario is I get more done and then I just do something someplace else later.

Can I just say I love the comments section of that post?

jjdebenedictis said:

**runs about flailing**

**sings** "It's the MOST. Wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeeear..."

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Best use of a carol in a non-holiday thread.