I got a no today from Angry Robot, for those of you keeping track at home. Still, it was nice to be under consideration at that level.
Remember the contemporary YA I wrote this past summer, Misfits? It's revised now and I sent the first batch of five queries out to agents Friday night. I've already received three responses: two rejections--and a full request. So that's almost made up for my rejection today.
I don't know what I'm going to do with Bell-Men, to be honest. There's one more publisher I can send it to, although I want to revise it again first, but if they say no I'll probably just sit on it for a while. I've almost completed the sequel and I've always planned to make it a trilogy, so maybe I'll just wait until I've finished all three books to my satisfaction. And maybe by then I'll have sold something else and have an agent who can send it out to all those publishers who don't take unagented submissions ever.
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Sorry to hear about the Angry Robot rejection, but as you said, fantastic that you got to that level. I believe Strange Chemistry (Angry Robot's YA arm) are opening to unagented submissions shortly.
And squee, for the full request. Fingers crossed.
I've heard that too, and wish I had something they might be interested in. Ooh, I bet you do! You definitely need to sub!
Angry Robot's loss is someone else's gain. Hopefully your readers, someday. ;)
Good luck with the full.
Now I just have to finish writing the next two. But I have no deadline!
Too bad about Angry Robot. Maybe next time you can submit to Friendly Robot?
Friendly Robot probably only publishes board books. :)
Nuts. These idiots don't know what they're missing.
I meant to compliment you, by the way: I liked Goldie better than anything else I've read from you. It was superb, and I was really disappointed when I ran out of book to read.
Thanks! I enjoyed writing it, although I think it's going to be my only foray into steampunk.
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