{"id":505,"date":"2014-07-27T18:22:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T10:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2014-07-27T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T10:23:47","slug":"a-chock-a-block-future-program-means-we-have-temporarily-suspended-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/a-chock-a-block-future-program-means-we-have-temporarily-suspended-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"A chock-a-block future program means we have temporarily suspended submissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SorryClosedForSubmissions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-506 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SorryClosedForSubmissions-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"Sorry - temporarily closed for submissions\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SorryClosedForSubmissions-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SorryClosedForSubmissions.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Given the number of recent signings, which include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cold Faith<\/em> by Shaune Lafferty Webb;<\/li>\n<li><em>Foxing the Fandango<\/em> by Lesley Truffle; and<\/li>\n<li><em>ON<\/em> by Jon Puckeridge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>as well as the remaining program for this year which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Isis, Vampires and Ghosts &#8211; Oh My<\/em> by Janis Hill;<\/li>\n<li><em>Frontier Resistance<\/em> by Leonie Rogers; and<\/li>\n<li><em>Across the Bridges<\/em> by Ruth Fox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>we have regretfully decided to temporarily close for submissions. At this stage we do not anticipate re-opening until June 2015. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/?page_id=27\">contact<\/a> me to be informed by email when we \u00a0re-open submissions again.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, given that our release schedule is now fully committed to December 2015, not to close for submissions would raise false expectations in those submitting manuscripts. In addition, keeping submissions open would require me to provide valuable time to assess submitted manuscripts, time that could be better spent editing and marketing those we are already contractually committed to.<\/p>\n<p>No longer accepting submissions does leave a sour taste in my mouth, because when I established Hague Publishing one of my aims was to provide a channel for unpublished, or newly established authors to reach an audience. Now it seems I have become one of those many publishing houses (and agents) that seem intent on ignoring those many books deserving publication. Unfortunately both time, and capital prevent me from publishing all the books that do deserve and I am having to learn to say &#8216;no&#8217;. On the other hand, having to hang out a sign &#8211; &#8216;Temporarily Closed for Submissions&#8217; &#8211; is a mark of our success in attracting the manuscripts we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the number of recent signings, which include Cold Faith by Shaune Lafferty Webb; Foxing the Fandango by Lesley Truffle; and ON by Jon Puckeridge as well as the remaining program for this year which includes: Isis, Vampires and Ghosts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/a-chock-a-block-future-program-means-we-have-temporarily-suspended-submissions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[80,79,78],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writers","tag-submissions","tag-suspend","tag-temporarily"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}