Middling It

Oh sounds promising MHayes! I have my fingers crossed for you!

mhaynes said:

Hopefully, this is a prelude to Braggage... I received a note today letting me know that my current Shimmer submission was being passed along to the full editorial board. I don't know how often this happens, but it's the first time one of my stories has made it to that level there.

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Congratulations! It means you've made it past slush (sort of the equivalent of making it to round 2 at DSF)

Best of luck, Michael! When Shimmer rejected my story after passing it up to "the full board," they had the nicest things to say about the story and my writing. It made me feel tingly even though they were honest and firm about why the ending didn't work for them. It's the first time thus far that I've tweaked a story based on an editor's feedback. They seem to be great people.

The fingers on my left hand are crossed for you. (Sorry, the other hand's fingers are reserved for my special cricket.)

Thanks, all! We'll see what happens. From the Duotrope reports, it looks like it should only be a few weeks until I hear something.

(And, O'Dandelo, I'll use my left hand's fingers to cross for your special cricket and others' special crickets.)

Good luck, Michael!

So. Waiting on a response from Tin House. Anxious because a query ten days ago got a response of "With a reader, you should hear something in a couple of weeks." >_<

And, you know. The story at Tor.com is at 175 days. Only another hundred days or so before I can start worrying about it.

Good luck at Tin House, Aggy! I think it's promising that they've held onto it for so long. Jeez, Tin House - you must be on pins and needles.

I got a personal rejection from F&SF yesterday, from Gordon Van Gelder. Wooo! The last couple stories I sent there got higher tier form rejections, so here's hoping for a sale soon! Trying to decide where to send it next...

Good luck, Aggy!

I've got my fingers crossed for you.

Another submission just changed to "in progress." I keep checking my email. Fingers crossed.

Which market is it, gettingby? Because sometimes you'll be neurotically checking your email for a looong time. I've been "in progress" at a market for 27 days now. They'd had the story only 4 days when it went from "received" to "in progress." :/

Good luck with Tin House, Aggie!

Got an email from DSF to let me know a story made it into the final yes/no pile. Most everything else has been out for a while. It's a little dull round here.

O'Dandelo said:

Which market is it, gettingby? Because sometimes you'll be neurotically checking your email for a looong time. I've been "in progress" at a market for 27 days now. They'd had the story only 4 days when it went from "received" to "in progress." :/

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27 days! So they open the story, read it and decide to wait weeks before making a decision??? I don't get it. I guess it could make sense if it was being passed on to other readers or editors, but if it is a clear no, shouldn't it get a quicker response? Not that I want a quick no. I think the yes is worth waiting for. How does anyone avoid going crazy over this process? Good luck!

gettingby said:

27 days! So they open the story, read it and decide to wait weeks before making a decision??? I don't get it. I guess it could make sense if it was being passed on to other readers or editors, but if it is a clear no, shouldn't it get a quicker response? Not that I want a quick no. I think the yes is worth waiting for. How does anyone avoid going crazy over this process? Good luck!

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More like they downloaded it into a "to be read" folder, probably for slush readers, or to keep tabs of what/when they received a batch of stories. That's my guess, anyway.

And I have a story "in-progress" at Vestal Review for 50 days now.

Gettingby - yeah, the way the system I slushed for was like what defcon says. When it was assigned a slush reader, it would change to in-progress even if still in slush. Then we'd get to it when we got to it, which could take a while.

And Aggy - best with TinHouse! they're the dream. I tend to get close to 200 days each time, which sucks, but provides hope I guess.

I'm over 230 days now at a 30 day market, queried in Dec with no response, sigh. And also above the normal response time for another market. Gotta write more stuff to send out.

we do have the same market in common! But mine has been marked 'closed' since day one, and when I queried back then they said to ignore it, it's in consideration. That was about 200 days ago.

I'm waiting until the last 200+ rejection is off the duotrope page before querying again.

John Amen put about 1500 miles on the car.

goldmund said:

John Amen put about 1500 miles on the car.

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Lol, I got one of his spam poetry reading emails today...

Good luck MHaynes and Aggy!

Waiting really sucks. One of my submissions is in the red on duotrope. But when I log onto the publications website the status is still received. I don't feel right contacting them about something they obviously have not read. Has anyone else been in this situation?

My submission to Penumbra's dream issue was bumped to the 2nd-round. Anyone else in the running for that issue?

Now at 50 days in the queue for FFO. The 53-day form R just reported on Duotrope did nothing for my confidence...

Project Deadlight said:

Just got my second round bump from Penumbra for Dreams too. Happy because I wrote it specifically for them.

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Ah, cool. Good luck to us both, then! (I also wrote mine for their issue)