Hodderscape Open Submission Window

Droflet said:
I had a word with Glitch last week and he said that (hopefully) people with start to be emailed this week. If that's true, you only have to hold your breath till Friday. With my entry I won't waste the energy.
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Droflet, I'm not connected with Hodderscape. My reply was referring to submissions for Kraxon Magazine.
 
And here was I hoping to get Zodiac Eclipse made into a series of novels :)
 
Finally: be polite.
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Be professional. If you receive a turn-down from us, please don’t respond by attacking our taste and judgement. This isn’t just good manners, it is also good sense. Publishing is a small industry and, if you stick with writing (and we hope you do), we may all run into one another again.
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all of this, all the time.
 
On rudeness: there was a great Goodreads group, sadly short-lived, called The Source [if memory serves]. The prime mover behind the group moved on to her own site, The Veritable Fount, but it seems to have become defunct after she got some abuse from an idiotic author. Angers me quite a lot, to be honest, as the lady in question (whom I knew only slightly) seemed to have both good judgement and her heart in the right place. The aim of The Source was to give authors (unsure if it was entirely SP) some objective reviews to help sort wheat from chaff, and it (and TVF) was something much needed given the explosion in publishing recently.

One of the best aspects of writing is the co-operative sentiment that pervades (here, at least). Not only is being aggressive a moronic attitude, it harms your own work.
 
Now a chilly, foggy, 1st of October (2015), probably be clear, bright and hot later as yesterday was. Perhaps they will notify the successful first and then the rejections, alphabetically.
 
Maybe they'll get rid of all the obvious rejects first (the ones with no grammar and spelling and submitted in Brush Script MT size 2 font, purple, single spaced with 2mm margins), then winnow out the rest of us until they are left with a few hundred half-decent MSS and some real crackers.

Speculation helps while away the hours before the rejection arrives. Ducks the slap and runs away - but I'm not looking for sympathy or reassurance. The fact remains that I know I'm not good enough yet to be picked up by a trad publisher. It doesn't mean I don't think I'll ever be good enough -- if I thought that, I'd just give up now. I intend to work hard, keep subbing, keep learning, and one day I will be good enough. I just think that's a few years off yet.
 
With Harper Voyager, there was a sort of double cull - they culled a lot in the first readthrough and then carried the others forwards for more detailed review. But, as Chopper says, Hodder have indicated they will be responding in order of submission - since I was an early sub I expect to hear quite soon (but I said that about Harper :rolleyes:) However, if people behind me start to hear first it might indicate that they are culling as a first run, which would be the more normal practice (because they don't want to accept me on a day one sub and then find 50 they like more later. Ergo, it's easy to reject but harder to accept on a first run.)
 
chopper said:
i heard it would be in order of acknowledgement,
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I may put my feet up and relax then: mine went in at the eleventh hour and the acknowledgement came after the closing date. I usually just submit and forget, but for some reason this one has got to me and stayed in my mind. Not like me to be checking constantly like this!
 
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