M-Keys: Hi ,I have a question please?? I submitted my first YA manuscript for consideration to a publishing house in Melbourne , Aus and have just heard back from them with the following "... is currently assessing the potential of your manuscript "Kahuku for placement into our publishing program. Our internal evaluation of the manuscript by our editors and the team, at this stage, is positive. The team feels the need to commission an external independent editors evaluation report to add this to our own opinion before making a final publishing decision.The decision to commission an external evaluation by our team involves financial costs. We then ask the author to pay part of those costs that will enable us to come to a prompt decision. On this occasion, your portion of the cost is $330 Inc. GST. The evaluation will take approximately 7-10 days and the report will be emailed to you on receipt. Shortly after we add that report to our own opinions we will contact you to discuss the next stage. On your approval to us proceeding with the external evaluation, we will forward you an invoice." What do people think? has anybody had experience with this? I am on a disability pension and this is alot of money for me.. Do you think they are actually interested or I will pay this money out of a pension and get nowhere ... advice asap would be appreciated.. I'm new to this and my excitement over hearing from the publisher is fading fast |
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M-Keys: Iv had two phone calls from two separate publishers in the last 5 days. Both are considering my YA novel manuscript! Cross your fingers for me please. Hoping one of them likes it enough to want to publish it! Waiting is so hard! omgosh so excited and nervous at the same time |
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M-Keys: I have a question , I am working on a YA manuscript which I would love to submit to publishers. Just finished my first draft and the word count is sitting on 23,435 words. Somebody please help? what is the minimum word count usually for YA novels? Iv looked it up online and keep getting different answers , getting confused! Please help and thank you in advance |
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M-Keys: awww shux , thank you very much to everybody who voted for my entry <3 |
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M-Keys: Woops , sorry everyone just realised I hadn't filled in my profile details AND it said im a male .... I'm not :p updated quickly will finish another day , right now its 1:20am :) Night :) |
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M-Keys: Need advice please , does anybody know how long a manuscript should be for a children's picture book ? Working on one for submission to publisher and not sure how long it should be as they don't stipulate, thank you in advance |
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M-Keys: Hi everyone :) There is an ebay auction currently running , raising money for a charity called Angel Baby. I am secretary for this registered charity and last month MYself and another board member were privilaged to meet and talk with Award winning author John Marsden! John was awsome and talked to us about our charity before donating a copy of " A day in the life of me" and Autographing it for us so that we could run a charity auction. This auction started last night Please check it out and read about our charity and the work we do , please if you can support us , this is an awsome auction item! Just go to ebay and put in the following AUTOGRAPHED " A day in the life of me" John Marsden CHARITY AUCTION |
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M-Keys: i know i have some grammatical errors and im working on it , but am after other ideas on how to make my writing better not just how to FIX how badly im stuffing up my writing :( feeling a bit discouraged today . got new info from my specialist and new meds and hoping he can help with my new symptoms , hopefully it will help me sort my thoughts a bit. off to write some more :) |
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M-Keys: nice warm day here in sunny melbourne :) |
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M-Keys: Working on a short childrens book , one chapter at a time :) " Ducky's First day at childcare" . Hopefully it works ok :) |
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