Hi guys,
Has anyone sent any submissions off to Snow books recently? Just wondered what the 'average' waiting time was at present, I sent something over 2 months ago and am eagerly awaiting the 'one rejection fits all' reply!

Hi amiria,
I sent mine off mid July, so it's been over 3 months now, and I haven't had a reply yet. I don't know how long it usually takes, sorry.
Saz

Thanks Saz, At least we know not to take it personally! I always panic and start thinking things like 'did they Actually get my email?' etc etc. Patience is a virtue....
sigh.

You said it! I'll ww mail you if and when I hear anything so you know how long it took if you want. Good luck by the way.

I sent mine in May and haven't yet got any response. They did say on the blog that they're snowed under and apologised for the wait. I chased by email last week, but no response to that - so I imagine they're just not going to reply to things they don't want. As is the way of publishers across the board indeed!

Ah well.

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Anne,
May? My goodness! I had just started to think I was going to get an answer soon, but I guess I had best forget about it for a while!
Saz

I don't know, Saz - they might well prefer you to me, so don't give up yet! But what I'd also say is send out to at least another 9 people if you haven't already - no point in waiting for one set of people to get their act together!

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Anne,
I guess I should get my act together! I've only subnmitted it to 5 people in total, and those were one at a time. I thought I might try Legend Press. Have you tried them?

Yes, I did, but they didn't want the book I offered them at the time - no reason you shouldn't try though!

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BLOODY HELL! May??!! Enjoy the wait guys, at least we're all in it together. As soon as one of us hears, we must email the others to let them know there's hope in the pipeline! Cheers for replying and GOOD LUCK. :-)

Yep,
good luck guys. Fingers crossed and arms linked together. Shall we sing a song while we wait?

Yes, I'd like a song, please!! Someone out there might then hear us ...!

==:O

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Gah. I know, it's awful... here's a post I put on our blog in August which is still relevant:

"This post is for all those people who so kindly think of Snowbooks when embarking on the road to publication. Er, we are in a bit of a spin, submissions-wise. We have hundreds of manuscripts to read, dating back to 9th May, and are already at maximum work capacity. We really don't want to close the door on submissions, even temporarily, but this is an apology to those who've already submitted, and those who are about to, because it's going to take us a while to read through all the scripts. It's heartbreaking because we're pretty sure that, nestled in the hundreds of emails, are one or two gems, twinkling away. I just hope we get to them before their owners give up on us... so again, a plea to bear with us and an apology for it taking so long. You wouldn't believe how much work a publisher has to do... given that we don't write the books, physically distribute them (thanks to our distributor LBS) or run the shops that sell them, you'd think it would be pretty straightforward. If you're interested, the greatest drains on our time are cover design, editing, rights and permissions, proofreading, typesetting, marketing, sales (so much activity can be condensed into these two words!), data maintenance, image manipulation (that sounds bad, doesn't it), printer management and all the dancing that needs doing when a book comes back from the printer/sells well/gets a good review."

And to add to that - it is rotten that we take so long to get back to you, but it's not malicious. There are only so many hours in the day (and night and weekend), and most of those hours must be spent doing everything we can to make a success of the books we've decided to publish. We are one of only a few publishers who run an active open submissions policy, which inevitably leads to literally hundreds of submissions a month.

So: thanks so much for your patience, and for thinking of us, and I will make an extra concerted effort to get back to everyone as soon as I can.

Oh dear, sounds desperate indeed! Never mind, SB, we can all sing that song and cheer ourselves up!!

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Emma, I suppose this is the inevitable consequence of winning the award earlier in the year, and I understand how much it bothers you.

I'd love to be able to help, but you don’t use readers, do you?

Dee