The 2005 Rejection Slip Collectors' Club [Archive] - Page 3

AmyDoodle

10-23-2005, 12:35 AM

I hope you dont mind if I stop in here--finally I've found a place where I belong!

23 rejections if you want 'em, all humor and all this year, although one was a near miss. Sasee magazine said I very nearly made the cut (took 'em four months to say so) and said they'd put me on the list for next year's editorial calendar. They probably figured I'd just spend the check on something foolish like food. :)

Pat~

10-23-2005, 12:55 AM

...but it was a NICE rejection from Writer's Journal, with handwritten note about another market to send this "cute poem" to (they were overstocked). Sigh.

triceretops

10-23-2005, 04:26 AM

Richard Curtis Assoc. HC query--tat=6 days

Spectrum Agency. HC query--tat=6 days

Evan Marshall Agency. HC query--tat=6 days

Indiana Universtiy. HC partial--tat=7 months.

Onward and downward!

Tri

allenparker

10-25-2005, 01:09 AM

Chronicle Books... we want any genre you are not writing in, about, or connected with. TAT3 weeks.

So who wants steaming glass of pity?

Who's next?

Allen

BTW, we need a themed story to announce our rejections.... I think it would help if it could be a murder mystery story.

Alphabet

10-25-2005, 01:33 AM

Me Me!!!

I got a rejection today and I'm so pleased because I thought they were simply not going to respond at all... at least now I can send a new sub to them!!!

From tinywords.com, tat 80 days
'...but I do encourage you to keep submitting '

That's either nice form for me or nice form for them.

paprikapink

10-25-2005, 04:25 AM

short story to thedeepening.com, tat 3 days.

triceretops

10-25-2005, 04:37 AM

Lazear Agency--email query--TAT=3 days.

Next!

Tri

triceretops

10-26-2005, 05:27 AM

Dramr Publising--3 chapters TAT= 30 days

Zumaya Pubs--3 chapters TAT= 41 days. (They actually lost the submission, admitted it, but told me they were full up until 2008 anyway) Grrrrrrrr.

Tri

triceretops

10-28-2005, 06:41 AM

Firebrand Lit Agency--email query, TAT=4 days
Schiavone Lit Agency--email query, TAT=4 days.

Onward!

Tri

egem

10-29-2005, 09:15 PM

649-674
This year so far I've been rejected by 26 different online and print magazines for both poetry and short stories. I've gotten 1 online publication and 1 print publication, and I have 9 pending. I need to send out another round.

maestrowork

10-29-2005, 09:40 PM

Glimmer Train. My fourth rejections. *Sigh*

scarletpeaches

10-29-2005, 09:43 PM

676
One today from Campbell, Thomson & McLaughlin, query letter for Bird of Prey. Standard rejection letter.

Bummer.

Birol

10-29-2005, 10:17 PM

With Scarlet's and egem's counts, I think the total is up to 676. We're getting closer to 1500, Barb.

batyler65

10-30-2005, 04:10 AM

With Scarlet's and egem's counts, I think the total is up to 676. We're getting closer to 1500, Barb.

Woo-Hoo! Way to go, everyone! Keep those subs going out.

scarletpeaches

10-30-2005, 04:13 AM

Ah, I see what you're doing! I thought this was just a 'wallowing' thread. But you're counting. Even with rejections we have a target to aim for! :D

batyler65

10-30-2005, 04:18 AM

Nope, no wallowing here, Scarlet. This was a challenge I issued at the beginning of the year to the regulars in Weekend Progress Report. We've picked up other folks along the way. Our goal is to reach 1500 by year's end. (Of course, if we get a few acceptances along the way, well that wouldn't be such a bad thing either.)

Keep 'em coming!

Barb

scarletpeaches

10-30-2005, 04:29 AM

Eeeeeeeeee! I only have two in the post! First thing Monday I'm posting another handful, and working on that synopsis so I don't have to rely on query letters! :D

egem

10-30-2005, 08:15 AM

Glimmer Train. My fourth rejections. *Sigh*

I was rejected by Glimmer Train about a month ago. How long did they keep your work?

triceretops

10-31-2005, 03:59 AM

Lukeman Literary--sent query but received Delivery Notice Failure

Five Star Science Fiction--same as above

Hard Shell Word Factory--same as above

Rabid Press--Hard copy chapters--TAT=120 days

Next!

Tri

scfirenice

10-31-2005, 05:05 AM

Mary Sue Seymore TAT 4 weeks very nice rejection saying my work is "promising" but not right for her....lies they are all lies......

NEXT!

scfirenice

11-01-2005, 04:47 AM

The Vines Agency TAT two weeks sent my query back with a stamped rejection on it.....yuck.

egem

11-01-2005, 08:02 AM

The Kenyon Review :mad:

tiny

11-01-2005, 08:29 AM

Evan Marshal - 11 days
Donald Mass - 12 days
Meredith Bernstein - 15 days
Realms of Fantasy - six weeks, twice.

batyler65

11-01-2005, 07:32 PM

689

Sterling Publishing (full MS request) - TAT 3 months.

Next!!

VeggieChick

11-02-2005, 12:15 AM

Ok, I'm joining in. Expect lots of entries from me. :Shrug:

The Blue Review – 2 days – Liked article but didn't fit upcoming themes

Garden & Hearth – 2 weeks – formal rejection via email

Vestal Review – 4 months (after I sent follow-up email)

Wee Ones – 1 month – formal rejection via email

batyler65

11-02-2005, 12:22 AM

Welcome Veggie Chick! Bring 'em on!

scfirenice

11-05-2005, 11:48 PM

Bookends, LLC TAT 6 weeks very nice personal rejection.

triceretops

11-06-2005, 02:10 PM

Hellbound books--closed to subs, email query TAT=4 days

Permuted Press--email query TAT=2 days

Whose next?

Tri

batyler65

11-07-2005, 04:49 AM

697

Gallant Greetings. TAT 8 weeks.

dobiwon

11-10-2005, 07:16 AM

[First time caller]

I just started submitting; got my first 2 rejections:

Analog (29 days)
Asimov (45 days)

(I'm thinking I'll just turn them around and submit them each to the opposite magazine.)

I've delayed submitting anything for more than 15 years, but last month I took the plunge! It's amazing how much of a rush you can get when you receive the rejections. It was just the kick I needed to get writing again.

triceretops

11-10-2005, 11:30 AM

Go dobiwon, go! Once you're over the initial "no" there's no turning back for more! May the force be with you...

Tri

batyler65

11-10-2005, 03:43 PM

700!

Oatmeal Studios - Humorous Greetings - TAT 1 Month.

Birol

11-11-2005, 02:21 PM

A query I sent out over a month ago in response to a blind ad and never heard back from. It was one of those things where no answer means 'no thanks.'

NEXT!

triceretops

11-11-2005, 08:28 PM

702

What services are you looking for? What is your budget? Our company offers authors the ability to self-publish while retaining the copyright. We have a network of companies in all areas of publishing. We charge a monthly or project fee plus expenses. Let me know what you need and we can talk on the phone if there is a match. Thank you

I rejected Vincent Press! Stay away from this one, obviously.

TAT 4 hours on email query.

Tri

triceretops

11-11-2005, 10:43 PM

Aardwolf Press (no off-earth science fiction novels allowed) Novel query TAT 6 hrs.

Tri

triceretops

11-12-2005, 08:07 PM

Helm Pulblishing--email query TAT three days

Next!

Tri

VeggieChick

11-12-2005, 09:19 PM

705 & 706

I Love Cats – email query – 3 weeks (liked the story but had something similar in the works... Hmmm... Do I believe her?)

North Valley Magazine – 3 days – Nice rejection; asked me to please try again (please works for me, so ok)

Birol

11-21-2005, 07:40 PM

Weren't we up to 707 or 708 before the move? Or was it 715? Whose counts did we lose? Ray? Who else?

maestrowork

11-21-2005, 08:37 PM

I think mine was 718 (Mundania, "Vampires, Werewolves, Monsters" Anthology -- they canceled it).

triceretops

11-21-2005, 09:06 PM

Well I'm back on the internet, holding my head above water for now--don't know how long. What happened to the boards anyway?

I seem to remember my 707, which was email query to Aaron M. Priest Literary, TAT was two weeks

Tri

batyler65

11-21-2005, 10:05 PM

718

Unless someone can remember posting a higher number we will restart the count at 718 with Ray's rejection.

scfirenice

11-22-2005, 04:46 AM

The Literary Group, my nonfiction WIP, TAT 6 DAYS....Come on did they even look at it....jerks.

kristie911

11-22-2005, 08:32 AM

I posted one but I can't remember the number, so here it is again.

3 Seas Literary Agency - submitted partial - TAT 3 months 10 days

FOXTALE

11-22-2005, 09:13 AM

Put me down for 5 rejections; sort of! I track these in a submission log that I worked up in word. I write creative non-fiction, and occasionally fiction based on real events. For 2005 I've submitted 17 stories so far. There have been 5 rejections, 9 no responses (i hate that worse than the rejections) and 3 acceptances (1 of them from the publisher that rejected the same story last year. But, I challenged the rejection in a humorous e-mail and he retought his decision.)

FOXTALE

11-22-2005, 09:23 AM

you said you got a needed kick out of rejection notices. I do too! At first I thought maybe it was my ego, but I thought a lot of the rejections were hackneyed and trite in style. I had hoped for constructive criticism. But I showed some of them to other writers in a writing club I joined;, they agreed several were pretty poor writing especially from publishing houses. That was a kick for me.

Birol

11-22-2005, 10:15 AM

707 - Birol

Flashquake - Responded in the general time frame indicated by their guidelines.

708 - Triceretops

Aaron Priest Agency--email query--two weeks TAT

709 - Kristi911

3 Seas Literary Agency - TAT 4 months 10 days after submitting a partial.

710-715 - Sherri234

Romantic Short Stories, 4 poems, rejection time about a week
Oatmeal Studios (greetings) 2 batches, rejection time about 3 months

No reasons for rejections.

716-717 - batyler65

Query, Dutton Children's Books, 8 days.
Greeting Cards - Andrews McMeel - 7 days.

718 - maestrowork

Not really a rejection. Mundania canceled their anthology because they claimed there's no money in it. That after months (more than a year? I don't remember)! BUT, my piece was one of the final being "serious considered"... so go over to the acceptance thread, will ya?

[From this point forward, I am pasting the posts added since the move just to make it easier to keep track of the numbers.]

719 - scfirenice

The Literary Group, my nonfiction WIP, TAT 6 DAYS....Come on did they even look at it....jerks.

720-724 - FOXTALE

Put me down for 5 rejections; sort of! I track these in a submission log that I worked up in word. I write creative non-fiction, and occasionally fiction based on real events. For 2005 I've submitted 17 stories so far. There have been 5 rejections, 9 no responses (i hate that worse than the rejections) and 3 acceptances (1 of them from the publisher that rejected the same story last year. But, I challenged the rejection in a humorous e-mail and he retought his decision.)

There, that should bring us back up to speed.

triceretops

11-26-2005, 11:42 AM

Firebrand lit agency. email query--TAT one week.

Tri

batyler65

12-02-2005, 10:34 PM

726 & 727

Chicago Review Press - 1 week.

Gallant Greetings - 10 weeks.

MacAllister

12-07-2005, 12:55 PM

Fantasy Magazine (http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/) - 1 week

Sent the story to Aberrant Dreams (http://www.hd-image.com/aberrant_dreams/), the same day it came back from Fantasy.
I'll let you know when it comes back again. :)

triceretops

12-07-2005, 01:40 PM

Donald Farber
Susan Ann Protter
Psaltis Literary
Writers House
Belfrey Literary
Tachyon Books
Aardwolf Press
Helm Publishing
About Words Agency
Ralph M. Vicinaza, LTD

All were email queries with no answers back on Planet Janitor--30-days
Whoosh! Line em' up!

Tri

kristie911

12-09-2005, 10:09 AM

HQN books - TOT 35 days

batyler65

12-09-2005, 05:14 PM

Kristie -- LOVE the sig! ROFL!

Keep subbing!

Barb

batyler65

12-12-2005, 10:19 PM

740

Oatmeal Studios Greeting Cards: 1 month

Penelope

12-13-2005, 03:28 AM

Pulp Couture - 5 1/2 hours, at least it was quick and painless.

batyler65

12-16-2005, 07:27 PM

742 & 743

2 batches humorous greeting cards - Andrews McMeel, 1 week.

batyler65

12-20-2005, 08:14 PM

744

Stimola Literary Studio - Query - ten minutes. (Whew! Is that a record, or something?)

batyler65

12-21-2005, 01:46 PM

745

E-query - Writer's Digest - 1 week. (overstocked on features)

Hey! Where did everybody go? The year isn't over yet!

triceretops

12-21-2005, 03:36 PM

We have slowed down haven't we? I quit submissions entirely in an attempt to regroup. I've got two novels polished and ready. The first one has seen a pretty good blitz and I still have lots of markets for it. The second is new and I've only made a dozen subs so far and it got a little bit better response and I'm waiting on those. Dunno, I have no excuse other than I'm changing my tactics. When I start up again, I'm going to make sure each query/synop is PERSONALIZED to each source with intimate information that only that source would know. That means absorbing every fact about their website and their preferences. I've gone so far as to check the weather in their state and make mention of it. Call it an experiment, but I've found that it is working better than the generic sub. If I do this twice a week, instead of 10 times a week, I think I'll up my odds.

I've discovered another thing. A lot of small publishers have message boards with all their authors participating. So I jump in there and join--shoot the breeze, and then submit. And strangely enough, the mod or administrator is usually the publisher keeping a watchful eye on things. I laughingly refer to it as (deep penetration in stealth mode) and no, that's no a physical abuse crime.

How's everyone else doing? Brick walls out there? Or tis it the season to slow down?

Spy Tri

Pat~

12-21-2005, 05:18 PM

Got one yesterday from Christian Publications for book manuscript...

Birol

12-21-2005, 10:08 PM

We have slowed down haven't we? ....

How's everyone else doing? Brick walls out there? Or tis it the season to slow down?

It doesn't look like we're going to hit the goal Barb set for us, does it? I do have a couple of things pending and a few things ready to submit this week in preparation for whatever goal Barb decides is reasonable for us to pursue next year, assuming that she decides to do this again next year.

Onward and upward!

JenNipps

12-22-2005, 08:11 PM

This morning, I got in a rejection for the work-from-home book proposal query I sent to The Career Press.

Onward.

triceretops

12-22-2005, 11:21 PM

Bova agency--24 hrs, email query on Word Wars

Tri

lindafox

12-22-2005, 11:43 PM

4 all Email Query
1 - David Black Literary Agency
1 - Harvey Klinger, Inc

1 - Asking for submission - Children's Literarcy - I burned it.

batyler65

12-23-2005, 08:37 PM

753

Query - Martha Stewart Kids - All material generated in-house.

NEXT!

batyler65

12-23-2005, 11:26 PM

754 & 755

Highlights for Children - 3 months

American Girl - 1 week

Birol

12-26-2005, 01:14 AM

Aoife's Kiss - TAT 2 months 9 days

triceretops

12-26-2005, 02:52 AM

All were non-responders via an email query for PJ

The Knight Agency
Rights Unlimited
Heacock Literary

I hope this is the final end of the agent quest. Any other subs will probably be for the first novel to small houses.

Tri

CaptainCanard

12-28-2005, 09:55 AM

I thought I would catch up on my rejections now that we are coming to the end of the year. Here's what I remember:

McSweeney's (print), short story, 4 months
Opium, short story, 2 months
Monkeybicycle, short story, 3 weeks
Anti-Muse, short humor piece, 2 weeks

On a happier note, I was able to place one of the rejected short stories and the short humor piece at other publications.

batyler65

12-28-2005, 07:07 PM

Woohoo, Cap'n! Thanks for boosting our total. And congrats on placing previously rejected work.

Barb

batyler65

12-28-2005, 07:09 PM

764

Greeting cards - Teetersaw - Ideas previously held but now they have decided to pass on them. *sigh*. Oh well. NEXT!

Birol

12-30-2005, 07:00 PM

Short story submitted to Fantasy Magazine - TAT 23 days.

batyler65

12-30-2005, 08:12 PM

766

Humorous greetings: Smart Alex - TAT 24 hours. Positive rejection.

Pat~

12-31-2005, 05:20 AM

4 poems rejected; Alive Now; 3 months

batyler65

12-31-2005, 09:45 PM

Today is the last day to post those rejections for 2005.

Come on, gang! We only need *does quick math* Seven...er.. hundred... and thirty...

Um.

Okay. So maybe the goal was a bit high, but look at all that we accomplished!

Anybody want to push the number higher before the year ends?

allenparker

01-04-2006, 06:21 PM

So, what is it?

1500? 10,000? 50?

Allen

batyler65

01-05-2006, 04:26 AM

Okay, gang. 2005 is officially over. I'm closing down this thread. Those weekenders who have followed along faithfully, watch this week's Weekend Progress Report for a little something I like to call, The Rejection Pledge. Details to follow.

In the meantime, keep subbing and keep track of any rejections you have already received for 2006. You'll want to know the numbers. ;)