Gollancz open call January 2016

I submitted to Gollancz on a previous open door and the drill was 'if you don't hear, assume you didn't succeed'.
 
Thanks, @pambaddeley**. :)

(And it means that we don't have to indicate in our wills who owns the rights to the manuscript if Gollancz replies positively years later, after we've passed away. ;))


** - By the way, is your username a slight reworking of 'pam bad delay' and thus a "tribute" to a previous experience with Gollancz? :whistle::)
 
Really tempted to send away for this, but I remember the hassle of postal submissions back in the early noughties and have very little desire to go through that again.
 
E.Maree said:
Really tempted to send away for this, but I remember the hassle of postal submissions back in the early noughties and have very little desire to go through that again.
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I chose not to for mostly the same reason.

Mostly, in the sense that I don't mind printing off etc but I recall from a post somewhere that Gollancz's way of dealing with their slush pile is to work through it as and when, supported by team meetings. I worry that this will become just one huge slush pile.

But, also, a few other things put me off. Gollancz have always been open to submissions. They're one of the few that have been. (Daw is another, and let's not get started on their turnover time...) So the open window seems a little misleading.

Anyhow, they are notoriously one of the slower houses (perhaps unfairly, but I have seen this in various places) and they'll be inundated - even if paper reduces the submissions a little - and I think this will just go on for a long time and I can't face another like that.

I honestly think getting an agent would be the better way of getting picked up by Gollancz.
 
Completely agree about the agent being the wisest route here. If the Open Door was for electronic submissions, I'd understand it being an event, since I don't think they've ever taken electronic subs from unagented writers. But a postal open door just feels like what I was doing a decade ago.
 
Jo Zebedee said:
Gollancz have always been open to submissions. They're one of the few that have been. (Daw is another, and let's not get started on their turnover time...) So the open window seems a little misleading.
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They used to be, but not for some time (though I don't know how long). I would have subbed to them several months ago if they'd accepted non-agented subs then.
 
As I said upthread aways, the last time I submitted on an open door to Gollancz, the drill was "if you don't hear, assume you weren't successful" so there won't be any definite rejection. Not tempted to go down that road again.
 
Hi,

Read the link. One question - does anyone know why they don't want submissions from authors with agents? It may just be me but it seems a little sus!

Cheers, Greg.
 
psychotick said:
Hi,

Read the link. One question - does anyone know why they don't want submissions from authors with agents? It may just be me but it seems a little sus!

Cheers, Greg.
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All open windows are for unagented authors only - those with agents are submitted in a different way, from the agent to the individual editor and given priority. :)
 
Of all the open doors and their accompanying threads, this has to be the most intriguing, not only because of the opinions surrounding the style they've adopted, but also because of the fact that just as every agent has a reputation, so do the publishing houses.
 
My oar has been stuck in with Uncharted. I sent the package away today. Come what may, a thanks to the many chronners who gave some great feedback/advice for the various hoops which needed to be jumped through.
 
I've been writing & editing about 8 to 16 hrs a day of last 2 months with a few days off. So submitted I think improved cover letters and 1st 50 pages of two novels. In the post 3pm today.
Now to take a break tomorrow and then work on something new for a while to forget about this.
 
pambaddeley said:
I submitted to Gollancz on a previous open door and the drill was 'if you don't hear, assume you didn't succeed'.
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I was surprised to get a no-thanks card this morning. (A physical card! They really are doing this the old-fashioned way. Or they're trying to use up a generous postage budget.)

Anyone else heard anything yet?
 
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