So this is a thing that's happening.
Harper Voyager, the global science fiction and fantasy imprint of HarperColins is accepting unsolicited manuscripts for the first time in ten years for two weeks from 1st-14th October 2012 in the following genres: adult and young adult speculative fiction for digital publication, but particularly epic fantasy, science fiction, urban fantasy, horror, dystopia and supernatural.
Obviously, I'm going to submit my stupid thing. It's basically all of those genres, and it's a complete manuscript, and when am I ever going to get another chance like this? HARPERCOLINS, GUYS! So even though it really, really isn't ready- like first-draft-there-are-some-parts-i-haven't-reread-since-I-wrote-this levels of unready- I'm doing it. Excuse me whilst I ahhhHhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
I know it's extremely unlikely to go anywhere but even just the possibility of other people, professional book publishing people, looking at my stupid thing, is freaking me out. So far the people who have read it completely are my mum, Abbii, Sarah and Steph. Am I being stupid, sending it in this early? I mean, it's the first time they are doing this in a decade, if I miss this opportunity I have to go the long route of getting an agent and drafting and redrafting and blah blah. So I'm doing it. It's a thing.
Consequently I've spent the last week frantically redrafting, and I can't even write this entry without betaing the hell out of it in my head. I'm so sick of the first few chapters right now, guys. I can't tell if they are any good at the minute.
Sooooo, anyone want to read the first few chapters and give me feedback? I would really, really appreciate it, and I'm trying to catch as many errors as possible (funny how they never run out however many times we go over it). My mum and Katie and Abbii and Sarah are being real troopers in helping out (Katie has read half of the entire thing in one night, she's a power machine) but the more eyes the better, etc, etc. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE POTENTIALLY INTERESTED IN HELPING EDIT A THING I WROTE IN LESS THAN A WEEK, GUYS!
In other news, it was midterms this week, so that's a fun combination of things to try and do together, also I have the worst case of fresher's cough ever known to man. Last weekend I went to my first American Football match, which was boring and also boiling hot, but I got to hear a rendition of the American National Anthem which was something I wanted to check off my bucket list.
I also went to my first frat party which was TERRIBLE because it was really empty and awkward and got shut down at 1am. So, meh. Before that the guys made loads of brazilian cuisine for us, so I tried brigadero which is fabulous and Pao de Queijo which was also great and and brazilian tequila type shots which everyone made a fuss over being really strong but weren’t as bad as vodka. Anyway that was cool although as everyone got progressively drunker they spoke more and more in Portugese and I found myself listening intently, like if I tried hard enough I might be able to understand. I started a jewellery making course on Thursday, which was GREAT, and my brother just started uni at Nottingham Trent! He's settling in well and going to Oceana and prelashing and stuff and I'm just :') my baby is all grown up all over him.
Not gonna lie I'm going to go listen to the new Mumford's album another ten times tonight, that's a thing that I do now.
Obviously, I'm going to submit my stupid thing. It's basically all of those genres, and it's a complete manuscript, and when am I ever going to get another chance like this? HARPERCOLINS, GUYS! So even though it really, really isn't ready- like first-draft-there-are-some-parts-i-haven't-reread-since-I-wrote-this levels of unready- I'm doing it. Excuse me whilst I ahhhHhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
I know it's extremely unlikely to go anywhere but even just the possibility of other people, professional book publishing people, looking at my stupid thing, is freaking me out. So far the people who have read it completely are my mum, Abbii, Sarah and Steph. Am I being stupid, sending it in this early? I mean, it's the first time they are doing this in a decade, if I miss this opportunity I have to go the long route of getting an agent and drafting and redrafting and blah blah. So I'm doing it. It's a thing.
Consequently I've spent the last week frantically redrafting, and I can't even write this entry without betaing the hell out of it in my head. I'm so sick of the first few chapters right now, guys. I can't tell if they are any good at the minute.
Sooooo, anyone want to read the first few chapters and give me feedback? I would really, really appreciate it, and I'm trying to catch as many errors as possible (funny how they never run out however many times we go over it). My mum and Katie and Abbii and Sarah are being real troopers in helping out (Katie has read half of the entire thing in one night, she's a power machine) but the more eyes the better, etc, etc. LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE POTENTIALLY INTERESTED IN HELPING EDIT A THING I WROTE IN LESS THAN A WEEK, GUYS!
In other news, it was midterms this week, so that's a fun combination of things to try and do together, also I have the worst case of fresher's cough ever known to man. Last weekend I went to my first American Football match, which was boring and also boiling hot, but I got to hear a rendition of the American National Anthem which was something I wanted to check off my bucket list.
I also went to my first frat party which was TERRIBLE because it was really empty and awkward and got shut down at 1am. So, meh. Before that the guys made loads of brazilian cuisine for us, so I tried brigadero which is fabulous and Pao de Queijo which was also great and and brazilian tequila type shots which everyone made a fuss over being really strong but weren’t as bad as vodka. Anyway that was cool although as everyone got progressively drunker they spoke more and more in Portugese and I found myself listening intently, like if I tried hard enough I might be able to understand. I started a jewellery making course on Thursday, which was GREAT, and my brother just started uni at Nottingham Trent! He's settling in well and going to Oceana and prelashing and stuff and I'm just :') my baby is all grown up all over him.
Not gonna lie I'm going to go listen to the new Mumford's album another ten times tonight, that's a thing that I do now.