26-day form R from Apex. The more time I spend with this story, the more I'm unsure about it. Anyway, I have another market to try regardless.
26-day form R from Apex. The more time I spend with this story, the more I'm unsure about it. Anyway, I have another market to try regardless.
Hang in there, Phyllis. It took me many months to make a sale. Just keep reading what they publish, so you get a feel for the markets and sub to the best fits for a story. Then keep writing, and keep subbing.
I'm not sure what's happening in the markets lately, but the response times from markets seem to be dragging on hellishly long (for me and my nerves). I got a 99 day form R from Issues of Earth Science today - and it's not even my oldest sub. I've got many hovering around the 70ish day mark and I'm crossing my fingers *hard* that they don't all come in on the same day.
I sent a story to Interzone on 31 May 2016 - yes, almost a year ago. I chased it up on Thursday evening by email and had an apologetic reply on Friday morning. He read it and enjoyed it but didn't think it was right for IZ (doesn't surprise me - that's usually the case with something that's not accepted or rejected within a month or so).but for whatever reason the rejection email didn't get sent.
Oh well. I do have other places I can send this to, even for a story that's 13,000 words long.
I'll remind you in a second. I'm just gonna check the Grinder first...Ugh. Remind me to stop checking the Grinder so often.
Ugh.Also, quit checking the Grinder, SSM. *checks Grinder*I had a piece at Uncanny approaching their 45-day-please-query mark, so I checked Twitter to see if they had said anything, and they tweeted that all pending pieces were with the editors-in-chief (I interpreted this as a bump?) and I got all hopeful only to receive a form R from one of the other editors five days later. *sigh* I'd much rather just forget a sub is out until the R pops up in my inbox.
SQUIRREL! Hey, why did you just hit REFRESH? *is suspicious*"LOOK a squirrel!"
The Submission Grinder is aUmmm...what's a Grinder?
I'll remind you in a second. I'm just gonna check the Grinder first...
Ugh.Also, quit checking the Grinder, SSM. *checks Grinder*
It's really not healthy to check the Grinder so often, yanno.
(obscures other browser tab from people in thread, points in opposite direction, shouts "LOOK a squirrel!")
Urk. I have a piece still at Uncanny. *checks inbox* still there for now anyway.
I refresh the Grinder about 98 millions times per day.