By Anne Perry

Posted on November 7, 2014 in Books, Film, Hodderscoop with tags The Forever Watch

All November we’ll be using Hodderscoop to round up the week’s NaNoDodo posts, as well as any questions that arose during the week’s Hodder Editor session.

• We introduced NaNoDodo, our daily NaNoWriMo feature!
• We shared an article about the science of Earth’s prehistory, explaining the issues that time travellers would have to contend with! (Briefly: oxygen.)
• Then we posted a roundup of all the awesome flash-drives you could possibly ever want.
• We posted the details of literary agency Conville & Walsh’s new Word of Mouth award!
• And then we shared an article about Women in Print, Unbound’s initiative to find new female authors.
• We brought things home with an article about miniscule robotic scallops that swim in your eyeball fluids (and a lazy nano pun).

And today on Ask a #HodderEditor:

Q: Response time on agented submissions?

A: We make every effort to respond to agented submissions within 21 working days of receipt.

Q: response time same for submissions from US?

A: I can’t speak to that, I’m afraid… but probably not too far off!

Q: brit writing book in UK set in America. General rule, American usage (vest for waistcoat) but UK spelling?

A: If the characters are Americans, use American terms and UK spellings. And try to find an American betareader!

Q: strong characters lyrical SF is keeping under 95k good plan or ok if ends 100

A: 100 is great… Longer books don’t seem to intimidate genre readers 😉

Q: even if you are hoping some mainstream crossover audience?

A: Yes – if it takes 100k words to tell the story, then so be it!

Q: Hi if short story already published, can I still include it in collection of new short stories and do I need agent to submit?

A: Yes; say that one is prev’y pub’d. We always suggest finding an agent to submit – start with the @Writers_Artists Yearbook.

Q: what’s it like constantly dragging that sled around The North?!

A: Hodor.

Ask a #HodderEditor runs every Friday from 11-12 – just use the hashtag and a Hodder Editor will answer!

And here’s what (else) we got up to on the blog this week!

We celebrated DiNovember by introducing you to a sampling of the best dinosaur webcomics out there, and then listed our favourite dinosaur films! We also tweeted that photo of Jeff Goldblum from Jurassic Park for the third time.

We reviewed the pilot episode of Gotham, the ‘young Bruce Wayne, young Commissioner Gordon (before he was commissioner, obviously) and lots of young villains’ show that started this season. We’re cautiously optimistic!

You figured out this week’s UnCovered pretty quickly…

Finally, we revealed the cover for David Ramirez’s follow-up to The Forever Watch: isn’t this glorious? It’s called The Black Disc and it publishes next year! And it’s going to be amazing.