Baen finally speaks!
Jan. 10th, 2008 07:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperI suppose this lets me off the hook now for sending them that postcard asking them what's up with my submission, huh? *^_^*;; (Yeah yeah yeah I know I should have sent it before now, but well hey, y'know, cancer.)
Anyway, I got an email back from them tonight and they say no. However, it's another fairly positive rejection letter. Here's the money quote:
"This is a nice straight forward urban fantasy. We flat don't have room in the schedule for anything not extraordinary, and this doesn't quite reach that point. Shop it around to other publishers, though. Someone will want it."
Now I need to think about what to do about this, and to whom to query it next.
Elapsed turnaround time from submission to rejection: one year, three months, 25 days!
ETA 8:52pm: And, undaunted, our heroine fires off the novel to Juno, who sound like they may be a good fit for it as they are looking for "fantasy with a focus on the female". Fingers crossed.
Anyway, I got an email back from them tonight and they say no. However, it's another fairly positive rejection letter. Here's the money quote:
"This is a nice straight forward urban fantasy. We flat don't have room in the schedule for anything not extraordinary, and this doesn't quite reach that point. Shop it around to other publishers, though. Someone will want it."
Now I need to think about what to do about this, and to whom to query it next.
Elapsed turnaround time from submission to rejection: one year, three months, 25 days!
ETA 8:52pm: And, undaunted, our heroine fires off the novel to Juno, who sound like they may be a good fit for it as they are looking for "fantasy with a focus on the female". Fingers crossed.