Re: Story Submissions: 4 of them

[Vodstok]

My first rejection letter in 2 years:
Hello:

Thank you for submitting your work. We've carefully considered your
submission but have decided to pass. Please consider us again in the future.

---------------------------------
Michael H, Editor
A n t i M u s e



i submitted Justice (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=justice), the Safe (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=safe), Bearwood (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=bearwood) and Father Dillon's Funeral (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=shamb)



I fell like i actually accomplished something because rejection means they at least read them. I need to work out some rewrites,I guess. I had some great suggestions about Bearwood and the Safe down in the horror writer's forum

[stubbornforgey]

My first rejection letter in 2 years:


i submitted Justice (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=justice), the Safe (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=safe), Bearwood (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=bearwood) and Father Dillon's Funeral (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=shamb)



I fell like i actually accomplished something because rejection means they at least read them. I need to work out some rewrites,I guess. I had some great suggestions about Bearwood and the Safe down in the horror writer's forum

don't just stop with them...
send copies out to every publisher you can find.
and good on you..:D

[Vodstok]

Any suggestions from anyone (I'm looking at Rod, in case he isnt completely tired of people asking him to comment on their stuff) for suggestions on how to make them flow better, maybe my punctuation makes it read akwardly, the characters need more depth, etc.

Ah hell, here's all o fmy stuff. Feedback needed, I am looking to push heavily at trying to get published:

i already posted 4 of them, but here is the whole shebang:
Justice (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=justice)
the Safe (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=safe)
Bearwood (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=bearwood)
Father Dillon's Funeral (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=shamb)
Abuse (http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25947)
Absolution (http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26114)
The Eating Tree (http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25578)

Now, i dont want anyone to think that i am not addressing previous suggestions. In Absolution, there will be more torture. This was requested, and i admit, it is a bit light considering the circumstances.

Rod had suggested an identity of somesort for the narrartor in The Eating Tree. i am still mulling this one over. I like the fairy tale feel of it, but i may do a rewrite with an assigned POV and then people can let me know which flows better.

I loved Haunted's suggestions for Bearwood, and I think they will help clear up some underlying issues i always had with it.


LEt me know what you think, though. This isnt just another simple pimping on my part (its a complex pimping :D). But i really would like some useful feedback.

[Vodstok]

And I almost forgot this:

Gloom Prelude (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=prelude)
Gloom Chapter 1 (http://scaredyet.org/art.aspx?aid=chapter1)

here is a discussion on it by good ol' Stingy Jack (we miss ye, pumpkin head)
http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8185

Also full o fsuggestions that i should get off my ass and accomplish.

[urgeok]

who did you send to ?
i thought it was impossible to get anything through to anyone without a literary agent ?

[Vodstok]

who did you send to ?
i thought it was impossible to get anything through to anyone without a literary agent ?

A lot of magazines and websites take independant submissions. This one was easy because it only required an email. So far i havent gotten off my ass in a LONG time to send out any hard copy submissions, but i am gearing up for that right now.



Edit: Sorry, it was a website called "Antimuse". It is sort of a counter-culture site.

[urgeok]

A lot of magazines and websites take independant submissions. This one was easy because it only required an email. So far i havent gotten off my ass in a LONG time to send out any hard copy submissions, but i am gearing up for that right now.

when i was sorting my books i was suprised to see i have a good sized stack that deal with getting books published.
i imagine they go out of date fairly quickly but some seem recent.

its something i definately want to look into sometime ..
(as if i'll ever have the time :rolleyes: )

[ShankS]

This site is probably not the sort of thing you're after :confused: http://www.lulu.com/uk but there may be a US equivalent. It's a site for 'on demand printing'.... If someone's interested in your writing, they'll print a copy and send it out. It could be a good way of getting your work seen. You can upload any manuscript and cover art you want to have published free of charge then people order 'said' book through the webiste, they print it on demand and then take the printing/binding costs out of the selling cost and you pocket the rest.

[Vodstok]

This site is probably not the sort of thing you're after :confused: http://www.lulu.com/uk but there may be a US equivalent. It's a site for 'on demand printing'.... If someone's interested in your writing, they'll print a copy and send it out. It could be a good way of getting your work seen. You can upload any manuscript and cover art you want to have published free of charge then people order 'said' book through the webiste, they print it on demand and then take the printing/binding costs out of the selling cost and you pocket the rest.

I'm looking at it right now. Thanks :)


WEEEEEIRD.... I have no recolection of signing up, but i already have an account with my email address and regular password..... creepy.

[Roderick Usher]

I'll get on those shortly.

[Vodstok]

I'll get on those shortly.

Thank you, as always, your feedback is extremely appreciated.

[Vodstok]

Which one is your personal favorite? That is what I will read first. Believe it or not, I am actually a writer too. I should have one of the two novels I'm working on finished up in approximately 1-2 months judging by the previous rate.

Right now I would say Abuse. Father Dillon's Funeral is an old favorite of mine (the first i ever submitted), but it is pretty derivative; it's more of a guilty pleasure than a serious effort.

[Nchantress]

Justice is one of the most imaginative, and involving stories I've ever read. And I'm not just saying that. It's really one of a kind, it doesn't follow what we've seen in books and movies in the last years.

He's good.


Love you!

[Roderick Usher]

Justice is one of the most imaginative, and involving stories I've ever read. And I'm not just saying that. It's really one of a kind, it doesn't follow what we've seen in books and movies in the last years.

He's good.


Love you!

Another unbiased critique:D

[Zero]

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[Vodstok]

Another unbiased critique:D

She's great isnt she? :D

Although i havent been able to track they guy down in close to a year, I was approached by a French film student/commercial director who wanted to make a short film out of it. He was supposed to start production in March, but I lost his email address because i switched hosts for my site and lost all of the damn emails we had traded (plus quite a few from Cheeba and kpro)

It is one of my more proud accomplishments....

i have some sci-fi that i am working on right now that i hope to finish in the next couple of years (time permitting). i am working on a section of my site that will let people watch the progress of it as i go along, not to mention it will make life easier for me to be able to reach it from anywhere. more on that as it progresses.

[Vodstok]

http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q108/zerohdc/monkeyicecream.jpg

Dont talk to my wife like that .... :)