[Holbrook]

I promised a couple of folk to put this up so:


Zeno is open for submission, BUT please read the guidelines carefully.

http://zenoagency.com/news/zeno-now-accepting-submissions/

[PeteMC]

Thanks - I spotted this yesterday (not that I've been checking their page every day or anything :o ) but sadly they don't want what I have at the moment.

[Laer Carroll]

LOTS of agents are open for submission. What's so special about this one?

[Holbrook]

LOTS of agents are open for submission. What's so special about this one?

*Sigh*

Besides being a very good one with some big names in the genre on their list?

As this agent is normally closed to submissions for 95% of the year and when they are open it is for a very short window. I promised a number of people I would inform them, so to make sure to reach all of them I started a thread.

Also we don't have a thread here listing agents accepting submissions and I thought it might be nice to start one.

I can get Hobbit to take it down if you are "offended" by it.

Also it is my agent.

[PeteMC]

Not only that, but unless I'm looking in the wrong places there actually aren't lots of agents in UK that are interested in SFF.

[Ramirez]

LOTS of agents are open for submission. What's so special about this one?

They pay you with cookies instead of money. It's a five cookie per ten word ratio. Think of all the cookies! We can live like kings!

[MisterKeitel]

Thanks for posting this. It was fun to write a pitch for my story. I did send it in and they did read it and respond back to me, which was kind of fun.

Dear David -

Thanks for this enquiry. Alas I can't really see where this fits into the specific requirements we have as outlined on our web site so it's not a project we can consider at the moment.

Best of luck with your search for representation,

John Berlyne

On 2 December 2010 23:43, DAVID EVANS <misterkeitel@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Dear Zeno, Hi. I read on your website that you are open to submission. Therefore, I humbly submit the following pitch:

Rocket Girl is a comic, sci-fi fantasy where the old-time, black and white Flash Gordon film serial chaotically collides with Pleasantville and 21st century teenage snark.

When half-mad, pulp writer Horace Midlothian penned the swashbuckling space opera “Marooned in the Fearless Stars” in 1935, he unwittingly opened a gateway into a fictional reality awakening a malevolent super-being who yearned to break free. Shortly after that Midlothian disappeared - never to be seen again.

75 years later, meek and mild teenage brainiac and social outcast Lex Raymond watches in horror as her scientist father, her sole surviving parent, is abducted by raygun-wielding henchmen from a Golden Age sci-fi novel and promptly whisked away into a swirling vortex. Realizing that she is the only one who can rescue him, she hastily joins forces with an unlikely pair of allies, a treacherously brilliant boy genius and his heroically handsome, but not altogether trustworthy, roguish brother. Together they hijack a physics-defying “TranShip” and pilot it into the realm of the book’s rocket-gothic tale. There they encounter an insanely exotic world where the natives seem to possess a bewildering enthusiasm for kill-crazy violence - be it scheming serpentiods, misogynistic mermen, psychotic mad scientists, ferocious Amazonian hellcats or a nefarious, not to mention disgustingly lascivious, Oriental tyrant who plots cosmic conquest.

To save her dad Lex must become the hero of her own story, defeat the villains, liberate an enslaved planet, slay an immortal demon-god, try to keep the entire Metaverse from imploding in on itself and still find time to go out on her first date. What’s a girl to do?

Thank you for your time,
David Evans
Dayton, OH.



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[Marian Perera]

Thanks for the link!

[PeteMC]

Your story does sound fun but to be fair, Zeno were very clear on their guidelines page about exactly what they are looking for which is why I haven't even bothered querying them this time as they don't want what I've got.

I'm still waiting to hear back from the agent I really want anyway at the moment so I don't think I'll try anywhere else just yet.

[Fantasy-Faction]

I sent them something through... Just something I've been working on and wondered what kind of reception it would get.

My main reason for doing so was because they mentioned 'Peter V.Brett' and I feel my writing is quite similar to his in the sense it is a pretty simple story line that relies on good characters and a dark telling :)