-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Marian de Haan maya@multiweb.nl Aan: unlisted-recipients:; unlisted-recipients:; CC: B7L blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Datum: vrijdag 26 januari 2001 20:28 Onderwerp: Re: [B7L] Editing
Julia Jones wrote:
No, I wouldn't submit to an editor with that policy, either. Although
I'm starting to wonder about the one with the A and B avatars that I submitted to a pro publisher nearly two years ago...<
I've only got experience with Dutch commercial publishers who, if they're not interested, are never ever going to reply. OTOH, if they *are* interested they'll respond very quickly. The criterion seems to be that it you haven't heard from them within a week, you can forget it. But as said, that only applies to publishers here in the Netherlands (Holland).
Maybe you could try telephone the publisher, Julia? Here that's the only way to get a reply, as they don't respond to letters, faxes or email.
Success!
Marian
In message 004301c087ce$7f67dda0$f28c49d5@marian-de-haan.multiweb.nl, Marian de Haan maya@multiweb.nl writes
Maybe you could try telephone the publisher, Julia? Here that's the only way to get a reply, as they don't respond to letters, faxes or email.
To be fair, the website did warn that responses could be a long time in coming. My biggest concern was whether the manuscript had got there safely - so a few months after sending it I emailed to check, and got a "yes, it arrived safely" within a day or two.
Looking at Circlet's website, it appears that the anthology that I submitted to has been delayed by at least a year, so I'm not too bothered about not hearing anything from them yet. There's no restriction on submitting to magazine markets in the meantime (not that I'd have a clue where to submit it), so it's not as if they're sitting on material and stopping it from being submitted elsewhere. Actually, my biggest bitch about Circlet having to cut back on their publishing schedule was that I wanted to buy one of their forthcoming non-fiction books, and it *still* wasn't out last time I checked.
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Marian de Haan