What have you got to lose?

Have you got a genre novel tucked away somewhere? A manuscript that is perhaps a little bruised and battered from doing the rounds? Or maybe a shiny new work that needs a home? If so, you should head across to Angry Robot and check out their Open Door Month:

In March 2011 we will be accepting submissions from unagented authors for the first time. The clock starts ticking on March 1st, and we close the doors again on March 31st.

What they're looking for:

All our books are “genre” fiction in one way or another — specifically fantasy, science fiction, horror, and that new catch-all urban or modern fantasy. Those are quite wide-ranging in themselves; we’re looking for all types of sub-genre, so for example, hard SF, space opera, cyberpunk, military SF, alternate future history, future crime, time travel, and more. We have no problem if your book mashes together two or more of these genres, but they must have that genre foundation – no thrillers with the merest touch of SF, for example.

This is exciting stuff. Actual invitations to submit novels are few and far between. I'd write more about how exciting it is except I'm too busy heaving the first book of a space opera series that I completed long ago from the bottom drawer.

What the heck, it's worth a go.