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Discussion in 'The Welcome Lounge' started by Vampyrecat, Jun 14, 2008.

  1. Vampyrecat

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    A publisher asked me to send up my manuscript!!!

    :eek:

    See I've been writing this book for about a year, it's actually one of three books, and I've finished the book, and I was in contact with a lady from Pan MacMillan Australia and she told me to send it up!

    :eek: So I'm very excited. I sent up my manuscript about a week ago....so now I just have to wait...and wait........and wait....


    But in the mean time, I've started writing the second book in the series!

    The whole Trilogy is about a woman whose mother is brutally murdered before her eyes, and she runs away before she knows what actually happened, this all happens while she is only about my age. At the same time, she is kind of Unofficially betrothed to her childhood friend, except because she runs away, they never get married.
    So after she runs away she gets seduced/kidnapped by this creepy old creatures who instructs her in the ways of dark magiks. She starts to destabilse the empire etc etc, causing havoc and killing people for fun along the way.
    During this time, her betrothed, Markl, begins to receive visions of her, and he sets out to rescue her.
    Because the King has sent out spies to betray this woman so she fails her goal of bringing forth a new empire, Markl decides his best way to save her is to be on the King's side to manipulate his love AWAY from falling into the traps the king places. So...yeah.
    And at first she doesn't believe him, but then he'll take her home (to the place her mother was murdered) and I'm still thinking about what'll happen then.

    But yeah! I'm Psyched!
    (!!) (!) (!!) (!) (!!)
     
  2. davo-man

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    OMG, that's awesome! I'm so happy for you and will be buying your books as soon as they come out :grin:
     
  3. Helen

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    I hope that silly critics in the UAE will let your books get through to be sold here! CONGRATULATIONS TESS! I'm also very happy for you ^_^
     
  4. Vampyrecat

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    Thank you! I'm pretty psyched about it. I had a look at their site for submissions, and it said that it could take up to 15 weeks...so I might not get a reply until the end of term three/beginning of term four...but hey! If they accept it then it's all good! ....If not, well I'll rewrite it and resubmit it. :grin:
     
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    Good luck Tess! Fingers crossed....

    Or try a different publisher?
     
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    Oooooh! And they asked you to send it in? That sounds quite promising...hope you get a positive response! :icon_bigg
     
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    Congratulations Tess! That's so exciting!
     
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    Congrats that sounds really awesome!!!!
     
  9. Congrats!!!! Thats's awesome!!!
     
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    Hey that's awesome! Hopefully they'll accept it. Good Luck!
     
  11. Omg that's so great! Congrats!
     
  12. Vampyrecat

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    Well I would...If I had an extra thousand bucks to spare. All the other publishing houses in Australia require Solicited work. Pan MacMillan is the only one which doesn't.
    I went and researched...unless I wanna publish in the UK or somewhere else overseas, I don't think there's much luck in that department. If worst comes to worst, I can legally publish it myself through Luludotcom, but I wanna be paid to write, instead of having to pay to write...(you know what I mean??)

    I'm still researching though... but yeah.
    Now I'm Waiting.:eusa_whis and twiddling my thumbs.
    With a capital "W"
     
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    Good Luck Tess :slight_smile:

    I hope they like it!

    -Luis
     
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    WOW!! That's exciting!!!!

    Finger crossed!!:slight_smile:
     
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    woooooooooooohooooooooo *crosses fingers*
    the plot sounds awesome! good luck :grin:
     
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    zomg!!!

    im so sorry i would've replied way earlier but i havent been on much and only just saw this thread..anyway CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! im really excited for u!!!!! :grin:
     
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    Oh, wow, congratulations! My novel's not much past the planning stages at the moment.
     
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    Yay, good for you. Don't hang around waiting you will go mad. Get on an write the second part to keep your mind off things.

    (!)(!)(!)(!) Some dancing bananas to keep you going !
     
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    Well you have me here, I'll read it.

    It's gotta have a gay relationship though ahhahah.
     
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    congrats...
    can i get a signed copy when it comes out??