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Posts Tagged ‘Submission’

Fantasy-Faction Anthology Starts Releasing Long List

October 1, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

The Fantasy-Faction Anthology has begun releasing it’s long list of 30 stories from which the six for publication will be selected.  The anthology received about 1,700 submissions.

The first five titles for consideration were released yesterday, and over this week the remaining 25 will also be announced.  And no, my submission Second Chances did not make the cut as of yet.  With so many submissions, the odds were never really in my favor, but I thought I would try anyway.

So far, the fist five titles on the long list are:

You Have Only One Chance by Vasso Christou

Winter Unicorn by Rose Taylor

Alderwood Bodies by Steve Erdal

Ninety-nine Macaws by Leslianne Wilder

The Dealer by Miah Saunders

Categories: Getting Published, The Writing Process Tags: Alderwood, Anthology, Faction, Fantasy, Fist, Macaws, Miah, Odds, Rose, Saunders, Second Chances, Submission, Submissions, Unicorn

When bowing just won’t cut it – there’s obeisance!

August 6, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

obeisance
noun \ō-ˈbē-sən(t)s, ə-, -ˈbā-\
Function: noun Read more…

Categories: General Things, Writing Style Tags: Acknowledgment, Adjective, Adverb, Homage, Ly, Noun, Obeisance, Submission, Superiority, Token

Three Most Common Reasons For Manuscript Rejection

July 26, 2012 Mathias Leave a comment

So, I have been picking the brains of friends of mine who are authors or are/were in the publication field (literary agents, editors, etc). I have been doing this because I see a lot of people compiling lists about why manuscripts get rejected. I read these lists because I want to give myself the best shot I can at getting published.

But what I seem to be finding is that a lot of those lists are really bunk, or at least these lists are subjective and often contradict one another. Don’t start your story too fast. Don’t start your story too slow. Too much description. Not enough description. Too many characters. Too few characters. Too much dialogue. Not enough dialogue.

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Categories: Getting Published, Good Stuff, Publishers And Agents, The Writing Process Tags: Best Sellers, Biases, Blah, Brains, Dialogue, Editors, Hand Knowledge, Literary Agents, Manuscript, Manuscripts, Personal Preferences, Pitfall, Publishing House, Queries, Rejection, Step 2, Submission, Think Big
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