Angry Robot 2017 Open Door for Unagented Authors

[Serendipity]

Angry Robot's 2017 open door for SF novels will be 1st Nov until 31st Dec. Details -
Open Door 2017: Send us your novel! – Angry Robot

I'm not sure if there is another thread been posted elsewhere - if so, could Moderator please merge - many thanks.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Watching this one.....

 

[EJDeBrun]

Curious. I'd be curious to know how going through a group like this vs an agent would be... anyone have any experience or stories to share?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Curious. I'd be curious to know how going through a group like this vs an agent would be... anyone have any experience or stories to share?

Wesley Chu. Pete McClean, just got representation with Jennie Goboly and going great. Anne Lyle, went on to get rep with Zeno.

AR would be a great outcome for any writer, agented or non agented

 

[EJDeBrun]

Wesley Chu. Pete McClean, just got representation with Jennie Goboly and going great. Anne Lyle, went on to get rep with Zeno.

AR would be a great outcome for any writer, agented or non agented

Thanks for the tip! I'm in the US so I've never heard of them. (Also not too deep into the sci-fi scene. I know, very weird.)

Doing the research, I'm going to give it a shot even though it's going to kill me to get this manuscript ready in time...

 

[E.Maree]

I was gearing up to enter this, but it looks like plans are changing.

*drifts off mysteriously...because nothing is final yet so I can't actually be less vague *

 

[Serendipity]

Am starting to have cold feet about entering this open door, not because of Angry Robots I hasten to add....

 

[Amelia Faulkner]

What I'm seeing is a month and a half to produce a 120k novel.

*Cracks knuckles*

Oh no, wait. That's how my arm got screwed up in the first place...

 

[Stephen Palmer]

24 days at 5k per day. Do-able.

 

[Cathbad]

24 days at 5k per day. Do-able.

!!!

~passes out~

 

[reiver33]

Not given my day job!

 

[Stephen Palmer]

!!!

~passes out~

I would need to be on holiday for those 24 days!

 

[Amelia Faulkner]

Just don't screw up your arm u_u.

 

[EJDeBrun]

Suddenly a long vacation somewhere tropical sounds really appealing...

 

[The Bluestocking]

Suddenly a long vacation somewhere tropical sounds really appealing...

I live in the tropics. You do NOT want to be here writing. It's heatwave after heatwave we're battling right now. Everyone's sweaty, sticky, and sleepy. UGH!

 

[Parson]

I live in the tropics. You do NOT want to be here writing. It's heatwave after heatwave we're battling right now. Everyone's sweaty, sticky, and sleepy. UGH!

It is really hard to feel sorry for someone living in the tropics. But I'll try.

 

[The Bluestocking]

It is really hard to feel sorry for someone living in the tropics. But I'll try.

Yes. Try imagining living in 35 - 40 degree Celsius temperatures all the time. UGH!

 

[Parson]

Okay, I'm imagining, but when I think tropics, I'm thinking south sea islands. With those figures I now see Brazilian rain forest or some such. ---- my pity meter has moved your direction.

 

[Amelia Faulkner]

Don't worry @The Bluestocking. I sympathise. I fancy neither the heat nor the humidity!

 

[PeteMC]

It worked out ok for me

I've had three books out with Angry Robot since getting in with them through this process a few years ago. I'm now agented and have a 2-book deal with Ace/Roc at Penguin Random House in the US and Jo Fletcher Books in the UK.