Submission Care Group 14

Woohoo!

Angel66

You aren't hearing this here, but your fab host Dee and I both have new releases out today at...um...that other place. (check my website if you really wanna know ). Check them out--gives you something to do while you wait. lol

Speaking of wait...I have to send off my more-than-a-year status check pretty soon...not looking forward to that.

Have a great day, all!

Good going Dee and Avery. Welcome Johnny.

Avery - went to visit your website and read the excerpt.  Loved it and the cover.

Dee - Went to the publishers website and found your book too, read the excerpt.  Again, loved it and the cover.

I want to have both in my tbr pile very shortly.  WTG girls.  Keep it up! (I mean that for your writng not as a pun for reference to your heros) LOL

You're awesome Avery! Best of luck with your release!

Oh, and if anyone is curious, I redesigned my site finally. Sigh. I just love butterflies! Alas, this is also edits week and Open House is kicking my butt--which is why I've been sparse here--but I wanted to be sure y'all got the new room you needed.

Here's hoping it has some good luck in it because it was born on a release day. :)

Dee

Hee hee, believe me, that particular hero doesn't need my help fighting gravity. :)

Thanks, gals.

Hey Johnny - I hope I got your name right as I'm having memory blanks right now! Welcome, and I agree, nice to have a man in the room :)

Just had a spot of good news, this seems to be a good week for me. I pitched a ms to Melissa Jeglinski of The Knight Agency at our conference back in August, and she requested the partial. She just emailed me to ask for the full as she's interested! This is the same manuscript that I just did revisions on and sent back to the Romance line. Wriggling with excitement right about now!!

Soraya 

I should be so lucky! But thanks for the positivity Jax :)

Your website looks incredible! I love the butterflies. So pretty in that colour. And your new release sounds very sexy :)

 Soraya

Soraya, congrats on the request!  MJ is my agent.  If you want to know more, you can email me at newtonwriter AT gmail DOT com :)

Donna, woohoo on the progress!

Dee and Avery--Release Day!  (Throwing confetti and blowing tootie horns for you!) The new webbie is bee-yoo-ti-ful, Dee!

Have a great writing day, folks.  I'm heading for the cave.

Steph

That's awesome Soraya. You're firing! Hopefully some of your great progress will rub off!! So great that you're pursuing the agent route as well!

Dee your website looks way cool. Of course, I didn't see if before but it looks fantastic. I didn't realize you had so many books! I wanted to rush right out and get them all.

It still has that new website smell to it, too! I love the shiny.

But I mostly wanted to come in and crow for Avery...guess who's book debuted at #8 on the other place's top ten? Nice open, doll!

Dee

(who is SO being the naughty hosty, but Avery SO deserves this. Here's to rocketing up the list!)

Aw thanks, Dee! I saw your name on there too...  

Congratulations to Avery and Dee!!

WTG, Soraya! Good luck!

All the best,

Gail Fuller

Once I have finished my work for the week I am going to go over to that other publisher's website and buy the new releases on offer.

K

Congrats Dee and Avery!!!! I've been grooming my one of my own stories for the other place as well!!!! Hopefully I'll be as lucky too!

Marianne

I love the layout of your site, Dee, and the covers - woo!  So intriguing.

Congrats Avery on making top ten over there.  Talk about sexy!

My fingers are crossed for you Soraya - and toes and even eyes on occasion  :)

Three days since my submission for an anthology at that other site.  Should know something by the 16th.  The days can't go by fast enough.  At least the muse has decided to sit on my shoulder again.  She's been knocking at my brain since late last night.  Will have to give into her tonight or suffer some major brain bruising.

Is it ok to ask in the cover letter if we can get a response by email?  Or should I just suck it up and enclose the SASE?

Good luck with your submissions!!!! Hope they love them. Now, since we're in a new room and I can't readily scroll back to look, are these submissions for contest wins or editor pitches or agent requests? So sorry I can't remember. I have so much info for my revisions stuffed in my head that everything is blurring at the moment. No matter what, I wish you the best.

These are 2 fulls from a pitch at the NJRWA conference.  The story is a little convoluted.  One of the two was submitted back in May after a workshop, where ALT said she'd pass it on to Krista if she thought it was appropriate.  I never got the postcard back, and have since revised, so Krista told me I could resubmit and she'd talk to ALT about who would look at it.  Krista also has the beginning of that one from a contest.

The second one is fresh and new to Krista, though Diana V. saw it (and didn't seem impressed) from a different contest. But Krista liked the medical setting, so I have hope.

The books are also part of a 3 book series.  Let's just say I didn't make this easy, lol.

All my fingers and toes crossed for you - so exciting!!! Good luck with them both.

 Soraya

Whoever has submitted would probably know..If we are planning to submit a brief or a bite..through email, what should be the content of the email ?

Name - full name or pen name or both? What if I want only my pen name ot be used everywhere?

Any publishing history - (in my case - none)

Author blurb? Is this needed before they choose us for publication ?

Synopsis of story needed ? Since its only 15K or less..If yes, then how long ? One paragraph, two ?

Word count?

Any help / suggestion is welcome :)

I don't know what other people's experience has been but I know that each time I submitt something the clock starts over. No credit for prior waiting.  In fact, I'll soon be going on two years of waiting for one story between the partial, full, and rewrites. If I were you, I'd drop your ms's in the mail and move on to a new project. You'll find as your excitement for the new project grows, you'll stress less about your submission.

Congrats Dee and Avery!

Welcome Johnny!

Brilliant news, Soraya! *fingers tightly crossed here*

Good luck Quinn

*Fingers crossed* for you too Jennifer. Can you make room on the couch for me? Just sent off my requested full to Desire *eeek*