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The Harlequin Historical Undone pitch contest results were announced today. I lost. 
Not only did I lose...there were only 20 entries, 5 of which were chosen to win an online pitch session with an editor. I didn't make it. Only 20 entries! Ack! Meaning I didn't even make the top 25%.
Not happy. I thought my final pitch was a good one. Maybe my idea just doesn't work for their line. Or do I suck, and I just don't know it?? I don't know. I can still submit through normal channels, but I'm not sure I want to. My idea was to hopefully get published with Harlequin and eventually write Undones on a regular basis. Since they're so short, I'd have time in between to write full length stories to indie publish.
So I guess I'm torn now. Because, knowing the indie business as I do, I know that if I submit my story to Harlequin, it could take six months or more to hear back...during that time, if the story were indie published, I could be making money on the book. Then again, if I were going to risk "wasting" time and possibly money by submitting the story, doing it with a short story would make more sense, since I have less time invested in a short story vs. a full story, and short stories are probably less likely to make as much money if I published it myself than a full story would.
*sigh* Hard to decide.

Not only did I lose...there were only 20 entries, 5 of which were chosen to win an online pitch session with an editor. I didn't make it. Only 20 entries! Ack! Meaning I didn't even make the top 25%.
Not happy. I thought my final pitch was a good one. Maybe my idea just doesn't work for their line. Or do I suck, and I just don't know it?? I don't know. I can still submit through normal channels, but I'm not sure I want to. My idea was to hopefully get published with Harlequin and eventually write Undones on a regular basis. Since they're so short, I'd have time in between to write full length stories to indie publish.
So I guess I'm torn now. Because, knowing the indie business as I do, I know that if I submit my story to Harlequin, it could take six months or more to hear back...during that time, if the story were indie published, I could be making money on the book. Then again, if I were going to risk "wasting" time and possibly money by submitting the story, doing it with a short story would make more sense, since I have less time invested in a short story vs. a full story, and short stories are probably less likely to make as much money if I published it myself than a full story would.
*sigh* Hard to decide.
