Perhaps a silly question, but:
I received a rejection from a nice journal yesterday. Luckily, it was one of those rejections with some encouragement; in addition to the standard form, the editor wrote in a line that said "Please send again."
At first I thought, as is usually the case, that they liked me but that the piece I sent didn't quite fit -- so they're open to another. This has happened before.
But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered if he meant for me to re-send the same story? It's a university publication, and since the form said they couldn't find a place in this issue I started to wonder if they thought it might have a place in another -- after the summer doldrum.
Of course, it's most likely that if this was the case, they would have said this explicitly, but I can't convince myself 100% one way or the other, for some reason.
Anybody encountered anything like this before? Any other examples of problematic submission responses?
I received a rejection from a nice journal yesterday. Luckily, it was one of those rejections with some encouragement; in addition to the standard form, the editor wrote in a line that said "Please send again."
At first I thought, as is usually the case, that they liked me but that the piece I sent didn't quite fit -- so they're open to another. This has happened before.
But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered if he meant for me to re-send the same story? It's a university publication, and since the form said they couldn't find a place in this issue I started to wonder if they thought it might have a place in another -- after the summer doldrum.
Of course, it's most likely that if this was the case, they would have said this explicitly, but I can't convince myself 100% one way or the other, for some reason.
Anybody encountered anything like this before? Any other examples of problematic submission responses?
