Novel Submission Update · 6:05pm Aug 27th, 2019
All right readers! Update here! So, many of you may recall a few months back at the beginning of summer how I spent two weeks working on an unsolicited Halomanuscript sample? Which I fired off at the 343 folks?
Well, as of yesterday, I have an official response. They’re passing on it. In fact, they’re not even open to looking unsolicited manuscripts. Their process (mostly) is to tell their current publisher they want a book, wait for that publisher to pick an author from their internal stable, and go from there. So they automatically deny unsolicited manuscripts.
Why post about it if it’s just (effectively) a rejection? Because I know from comments that a number of you were really curious about it and looking forward to news on it. Well, I’m sorry to bring sad news to you, but the offer has been passed on. The rights holder isn’t interested, and that’s that.
Well, that's lame of them, though I kind of understand why they don't make time to read "random submissions".
Still, no shortage of works from you on the horizon. Looking forward to seeing others' reactions to Jungle, in particular.
And I have a couple of suspicions as to which work [REDACTED] might be...