Rejectomancy

Ty Schalter said:

Whoooooooooops. In three years of doing this, got my first "deleted unread because you screwed up the guidelines" R: From Gamut, when I forgot to take my name out of the manuscript.

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That's such an easy mistake to make. I've sent stories in the wrong format, and it seems as though whenever I make a tiny, inconsequential change to a story before sending it out again, I inevitably introduce at typo! So three years and one mistake is great track record, IMO.

StormChild said:

66 day form nope today from Nature: Futures. Doubt I'll ever have anything of exactly the right length to send to them again.

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Sure you will! Just write another one.

18-day not-a-fit form from Gamut, which followed a 36-day R on a humor piece from Third Flatiron anthologies. So far, three Rs and no Acceptances in 2017. But two stories are scheduled for 2017 publication from 2016 Acceptances, so a good jump-start there despite the 0-3 January.

PastyAlien said:

That's such an easy mistake to make. I've sent stories in the wrong format, and it seems as though whenever I make a tiny, inconsequential change to a story before sending it out again, I inevitably introduce at typo! So three years and one mistake is great track record, IMO.

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Ha ha ha, thanks!

...also, for the record, I (correctly) subbed a flash piece at the same time, and it just got the ziggy at 19 days from editor Richard Thomas: "Unfortunately, the piece is not a good fit for us." He also form-thanked me for the opportunity and form-wished me best of luck. Will try the other story again next month!

Peace
Ty

Thanks Pasty, but I don't naturally write at flash length. If I ever happen to produce one unexpectedly, though, Nature will be top of my list.

One-day nope from Clarkesworld. This was the first outing for my January W1S1 piece, so she's officially underway!

Rs from Gamut (form but encouraging) and BCS (personal, but on one of those pieces I like more than others, yet is running out of markets).

Just got a 144-day form rejection from The Iowa Review.

A 48-day form rejection from New England Review. Has anyone checked them out? I think they are putting some really good stuff out there. I want to try them again soon. Just trying to decide which story to send. I want to hit them with my best stuff.

gettingby said:

A 48-day form rejection from New England Review. Has anyone checked them out? I think they are putting some really good stuff out there. I want to try them again soon. Just trying to decide which story to send. I want to hit them with my best stuff.

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I checked them out on The Grinder and it says they charge submission fees? If that's true, then that's all it takes for me to cross them off my submissions list. Even if they are legit, I'm not going to take the time to verify it when there are so many well-known markets without submission fees.

shortstorymachinist said:

I checked them out on The Grinder and it says they charge submission fees? If that's true, then that's all it takes for me to cross them off my submissions list. Even if they are legit, I'm not going to take the time to verify it when there are so many well-known markets without submission fees.

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So many places are charging a fee nowadays that it's hard to get around it. I was talking about New England Review as a reader of it and a writer. I think it's a pretty good publication that I hadn't come across until somewhat recently. I was just wondering if others had an opinion of it.

And another one -- 115-day form rejection from Salamander.

Form R mini avalanche. Quick disheartening Rs from Shimmer and Podcastle. Blah. I need a nice R now (or better!) to balance things out. Better get writing more, then...

6-day form R from Perihelion, and their form rejection is one of the nicest out there.

Sympathies on the avalanche, Mistri. I prefer those than the long weeks of crickets. Gettingby, thanks for the tip, I'll watch out for the New England Review. I'm on the lookout for a source of good, non-genre shorts as a reader because these days my reading seems to be overwhelmingly genre. I want to leaven that at least slightly.

mistri said:

Form R mini avalanche. Quick disheartening Rs from Shimmer and Podcastle. Blah. I need a nice R now (or better!) to balance things out. Better get writing more, then...

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Ooooooo, I hate it when they all come in at once! At least my 'mini-avalanche' stopped at two in one day. The one pushing 120 days is starting wear on me, though, when I know there's no end in sight on it.

gettingby said:

So many places are charging a fee nowadays that it's hard to get around it.

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I've heard this -- that lots of respectable lit mags charge fees. I'm glad I write mostly genre; I'm waaaay too cheap to pay fees! *squeaks off*

Just in. A 96-day form rejection from Baltimore Review, a 3-day form rejection from Threepenny Review and a long-awaited form rejection from American Poetry Review.

28-day form from Escape Pod here.

Nice avalanche, gettingby.

Reject-o-matics from Nightscript horror annual (12 days) and Deadlights horror magazine (19 days). Excellent markets for dark fiction, definitely will try them again.

From The New Yorker: 195-day form rejection. This one was for some poetry. For fiction, it says they only respond if interested.

Had a rejectolanche the other day. Then made a comment to my sister about expecting a rejection on just-subbed work, and she snapped at me for being pessimistic. I'm not sure why she was surprised; I've always been pessimistic >>

I am more cheerful today.

Form-ish rejection from Spirits Tincture encouraging to send more. It was encouraging enough that I'm not too sad about it, which is a win in my book!

PastyAlien said:

I've heard this -- that lots of respectable lit mags charge fees. I'm glad I write mostly genre; I'm waaaay too cheap to pay fees! *squeaks off*

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I had no idea, makes me glad I write genre, too.

Not a rejection exactly, but no response from Fantastic Stories, which just closed its doors.

DetectiveFork said:

Not a rejection exactly, but no response from Fantastic Stories, which just closed its doors.

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Holy shit. Well that really sucks.

JJ Litke said:

Holy shit. Well that really sucks.

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The publisher has fallen on some hard times. It's sad: http://www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com/message-from-the-publisher/