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Banned
Count me in with the Buzzy R massacre as well. My story was absurd fantasy about a crazy Rapunzel (my fractured fairy tale for Penumbra).
Congrats, Sai! What did they add? Did it come from Stephen Mazur or Gordon Van Gelder? How long did it take?
It's a story about Stuart Sutcliffe, a guy who played base guitar for The Beatles but left the band before they went supernova. In the letter the editor (Stephen Mazur) did the usual 'thanks for sending in this story', but this time he said 'thanks for sending in this Beatles story', so yeah, nothing big but it's something. I don't actually have the letter in front of me, it went to my parent's house and I had my mom read it over the phone. It was an 18-day wait, which is impressive for a postal only market.
Another form R from One Buck Horror.
Anyone know anything about McSweeney's? I know they are incredibly slothful, but mine just went In-progress and a batch just got R'd on DT. Are they slow before or after opening the file?
They seem to have gotten more reliable now that they're using submittable. Usually seems to be between 50 and 100 days.
4 day personal R from Shimmer.
Not too bad, but I'm gnashing my teeth about where to send that sucker next.
Weird Tales is open?! Nice. Sadly I have nothing finished for this theme besides a trunked zombie short that I'm not sure can be salvaged.
Looking over at the comments left by many a disgruntled writers on their site, I wouldn't be too hard on them since they're still adjusting. Yes they underestimated how long it'd take for them to get through the slush, and it'd would've helped to mention it on the site--but, I could say that about quite a few markets.Until today their homepage still read "Will open to submissions in mid April." They seem to be struggling under their new ownership and are running a leaky boat, to make a bad pun. Haha, ownership! Leaky boat!
The story I'd sort of written specifically for them was, naturally, just submitted to Midnight Echo, so my pockets are empty now. I got tired of waiting for Weird Tales' definition of "mid April."
Weird Tales opened back up today. An upcoming issue has an undead theme:
http://weirdtalesmagazine.com/2012/05/24/open-for-submissions/
Man, I just subbed something off to Midnight Echo too that might have worked for this. It's a vampire story, but I don't know if I should send it to WT if ME rejects it. It's the same story that I sent them last May, where they sat on it for a hundred and thirty days and then 'rejected' through a blog post when they changed editors and stated that everything in their queue was released back to the authors. Grrr. So I'm assuming no one ever actually read my story...it would be all right to send it again, right?
5-day from Clarkesworld. Totally expected. Don't you hate it when you write a story in one of those frenzied 3AM moments, read it through to check for punctuation issues, think you're a genius, submit it to a fantastic publication, and then sleep on it, only...
The next day: La-la-la-la-da-la, let me read my fabulous story again to give myself a boost. Hmmm...this isn't mine. What crazed sadist deleted my wonderful work and replaced it with this? Why is there a hurricane in a desert? Who are these characters, and why do they look vaguely familiar?
Lol...can you say revision?
Re: Weird Tales, I don't have a source for this, but I'm about 95% sure I've read somewhere that the new editorial staff is NOT carrying over submission/rejection history from past staffs. So, particularly for a story which was mass-rejected when the changeover occurred, I would think it would be fair game.