So I’m at the waiting-for-response stage of submission.
Everyone who’s submitted stuff to an editor goes through it, you submit and wait and wait. I have some sympathy for anyone sending scripts unsolicited through the post to the slushpile, a slushpile I may even have art still in the bottom section of (certainly I got given a gig from a con while my art was in the post)
I’m hoping professional courtesy means Tharg looks at my sub quickly and doesn’t just curse my name – I think I’ve sent him a couple of Dredd ideas in the past that were rejected fairly quickly (and I sent a James Bond script idea to an editor I’d just finished drawing a bond book for and got an almost immediate no – so quick, in fact, there’s no way it was read.)
I like a quick no. It’s good, move on, almost no pain.
I’ve talked to a few people about the submission I’ve sent and they like it, so that’s pleasing (even my old mate Gordon got excited about some of the possibilities for it).
I do know one writer who’d sent a submission in, got accepted and then proceeded to post large chunks of it online, and then founds their idea had gone from yes to no, if you’re wondering why I’m being a little circumspect even now, to you, my most secret of chums.
Will let you know if I get anything tomorrow.