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More musings about the future of Project E
Dec. 6th, 2016 09:18 pmI keep going back and forth about what to do. Technically I'm down 5 rejections and waiting on 1, but I'm paranoid that that 1 agent left lost my query or something.
I've decided to query 1 more agent—but that agent's agency is closed for December, so I have to wait until January. Argh. I initially didn't query that agent because I was trying to avoid agents who submitted to ebook imprints and small/indie publishers, i.e. Dreamspinner and Riptide, and I know that agent had sold a M/M book to Riptide before; however, given Riptide's restrictions on their open submission calls, it might be worth getting an agent if they can sell my sci-fi book to Riptide. (Assuming the agent offers rep, of course.)
I mentioned that I wanted to submit to Dreamspinner because (a) they don't have Riptide's restrictions for open submissions, and (b) they offer paperbacks, foreign language translations, and audiobooks (I'm not sure what you need to do to get an audiobook for your book, but they have quite a few audiobooks). However, my concern with Dreamspinner is that most of their books have sex (even though it's not a requirement per their submissions), and given that, unlike Riptide or Ninestar Press, DSP doesn't indicate "heat level" for their books on their website...I worry that DSP's readers would mostly expect sex from DSP's books.
(I could seek DSP publications, a Dreamspinner imprint that has less emphasis on traditional [sexual] romance conventions I believe, but I'm not sure. I remember hearing somewhere that DSP doesn't do special/different advertising than regular Dreamspinner, and it seems less well known to me—though I could be mistaken on that.)
Because of that, I've been eyeing Riptide and Ninestar Press more, since both of those publishers seem to publish more books that have varying heat levels and genre fiction with LGBTQA characters & romances, rather than mostly (?) LGBTQA romances that might have trappings of other genres. However, the fact that Riptide seems to be moving away from LGBTQA speculative fiction and focusing mostly on contemporary romances does worry me a bit. As for Ninestar, I love their message of wanting to focus on the other letters in addition to the LG (and the Executive Office series they published), but they don't directly sell paperbacks, which is a bummer, and they don't seem to produce audiobooks either (though I hear they do contract for audiobook rights).
Sigh. To sum up, my current plan is: query 1 more agent in January, and if everything's a rejection, then submit to Dreamspinner, I guess. (Unless Ninestar starts offering paperbacks and audiobooks soon, in which case I'll consider them, though I doubt that's likely to happen.)
I've decided to query 1 more agent—but that agent's agency is closed for December, so I have to wait until January. Argh. I initially didn't query that agent because I was trying to avoid agents who submitted to ebook imprints and small/indie publishers, i.e. Dreamspinner and Riptide, and I know that agent had sold a M/M book to Riptide before; however, given Riptide's restrictions on their open submission calls, it might be worth getting an agent if they can sell my sci-fi book to Riptide. (Assuming the agent offers rep, of course.)
I mentioned that I wanted to submit to Dreamspinner because (a) they don't have Riptide's restrictions for open submissions, and (b) they offer paperbacks, foreign language translations, and audiobooks (I'm not sure what you need to do to get an audiobook for your book, but they have quite a few audiobooks). However, my concern with Dreamspinner is that most of their books have sex (even though it's not a requirement per their submissions), and given that, unlike Riptide or Ninestar Press, DSP doesn't indicate "heat level" for their books on their website...I worry that DSP's readers would mostly expect sex from DSP's books.
(I could seek DSP publications, a Dreamspinner imprint that has less emphasis on traditional [sexual] romance conventions I believe, but I'm not sure. I remember hearing somewhere that DSP doesn't do special/different advertising than regular Dreamspinner, and it seems less well known to me—though I could be mistaken on that.)
Because of that, I've been eyeing Riptide and Ninestar Press more, since both of those publishers seem to publish more books that have varying heat levels and genre fiction with LGBTQA characters & romances, rather than mostly (?) LGBTQA romances that might have trappings of other genres. However, the fact that Riptide seems to be moving away from LGBTQA speculative fiction and focusing mostly on contemporary romances does worry me a bit. As for Ninestar, I love their message of wanting to focus on the other letters in addition to the LG (and the Executive Office series they published), but they don't directly sell paperbacks, which is a bummer, and they don't seem to produce audiobooks either (though I hear they do contract for audiobook rights).
Sigh. To sum up, my current plan is: query 1 more agent in January, and if everything's a rejection, then submit to Dreamspinner, I guess. (Unless Ninestar starts offering paperbacks and audiobooks soon, in which case I'll consider them, though I doubt that's likely to happen.)
