THE FUNHOUSE
To earn freedom from a floating city that abandoned the world below, a "Hexed" prisoner named Sangre must descend into the monster-infested ruins of the old world to hunt the very beasts that nearly destroyed it
Iron Widow X The Blighted Stars
#sciencefantasy
@Linnaeus_Writer@RoweWriter Agreed! It felt like I asked an update for a submission that has only been out for a few months and she just dismissed me and told me to self publish .. nothing else :/
@SashaLysette Are you having a good experience with self-pub? That’s what I thought an agent would do as well… I feel like she’s had a lot going on in her personal life and took on a bit more then she can handle
@reesamguerra Sadly no, but my response to that email was me asking for a breakdown of who she’s sent each of my submissions to, and who I’m waiting for responses from …and now we wait 😅
@Ekaylasimpson Pt 2. Newest work was what the market was looking for, so I said that’s great and aligned with my newest submission!! Any interest yet? And she said no, try self publishing..that’s weird right?!
@Ekaylasimpson Pt 1. Agreed on the red flags!! Jan ‘25 she got my first work, July ‘25 my second (unrelated) and Jan ‘26 my newest. I’ve gotten NO interest in any of them so far (and only 3-4 rejections do the first two TOTAL over the year) she sent a client wide email saying the genre of my
@amsunshine_ That’s so interesting bc last night at a book signing another writer said the same thing to me!! I feel like I’m so far removed from the know haha
@amsunshine_ Not that I ever think self-publishing is bad - just the reason I went with my agent is bc she seems really confident in getting me trad published so I feel a bit blindsided :( she also has been very bad with giving me any sort of updates w the 3 stories she now has of mine
@Ekaylasimpson They put this newest work of mine on submission in January - so I don’t think all options exhausted yet? But I also asked for a list of who they sent it to and they couldn’t see to give me an answer so now I’m starting to doubt they ever sent it out :(