Skywatch submissions
Feb. 8th, 2013 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anthimeriaThere is stuff going on IRL that's been messing with my writing concentration (including being sick), so today I stared at my Netflix account and then decided I was well enough to accomplish something other than finishing the third season of West Wing.
So I got together all my research, double-checked it for accuracy, and spent the day specializing and sending out query letters for Skywatch.
It's about bloody time. Seven so far. A fellow aspiring writer at WisCon suggested sending out a new query for every rejection or assumed rejection I get, and I think that's a good plan--so I'll always have seven query letters out. It's a little bit odd sending one piece around--I did it for The Novel, but it was a while ago and I have a lot more experience submitting short stories, which are pretty much always single submissions.
Now, since I did get a rejection letter for The Novel from HarperVoyager, I need to get started researching agents to submit queries for that book as well. It's been going on three years and two significant revisions since I last submitted The Novel, and I have a lot more confidence in it now than I had then, so.
Wish me luck!
So I got together all my research, double-checked it for accuracy, and spent the day specializing and sending out query letters for Skywatch.
It's about bloody time. Seven so far. A fellow aspiring writer at WisCon suggested sending out a new query for every rejection or assumed rejection I get, and I think that's a good plan--so I'll always have seven query letters out. It's a little bit odd sending one piece around--I did it for The Novel, but it was a while ago and I have a lot more experience submitting short stories, which are pretty much always single submissions.
Now, since I did get a rejection letter for The Novel from HarperVoyager, I need to get started researching agents to submit queries for that book as well. It's been going on three years and two significant revisions since I last submitted The Novel, and I have a lot more confidence in it now than I had then, so.
Wish me luck!
Good Luck!
Date: 2013-02-09 05:15 pm (UTC)It's great to hear that you're submitting stories and I wish you the best of luck. Also, speaking of The Novel, I'd like to read your newest draft, if that's OK. I'm curious about the changes. :)
And if it makes you feel any better about not being productive, I've been marathoning the West Wing for the past few weeks (and am currently in the middle of season 5). It's so good! :)
Re: Good Luck!
Date: 2013-02-10 02:36 am (UTC)And yeah, SO GOOD.
I'll send along The Novel's latest draft.
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