Rejectomancy

18-day form from DSF. Off to Apex.

44-day from Shock Totem. I have a lot of submissions creeping into the late thirties and forties, so I hope that this isn't the start of a rejectionlanche.

42-day R from Futures. Said they enjoyed the piece, but wasn't right for Futures.

Sai said:

I have a lot of submissions creeping into the late thirties and forties, so I hope that this isn't the start of a rejectionlanche.

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Heh, same here. I'm really twitchy about my Penumbra and Willy Writers subs.

And 27-day R from Buzzy, haha. Weird though, they pasted the text twice.

Maybe it will be an acceptancelanche, Sai!

64-day personal rejection from D.F. McCourt at AE.

But it said "absolutely love your writing style", so it almost feels like braggage. If I squint.

Sorry about all the R's people. I too am in the thirties and forties Sai, with only crickets. At least it lets me forget about my submissions and just focus on what I'm writing now.

W.L. Marks said:

Maybe it will be an acceptancelanche, Sai!

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Sometimes I look at all the stories I have out and think "Whoa, what if they all got accepted?" Hey, it could happen .

Congrats on getting a personal from AE.

defcon6000 said:

42-day R from Futures. Said they enjoyed the piece, but wasn't right for Futures.

Heh, same here. I'm really twitchy about my Penumbra and Willy Writers subs.

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Which Penumbra theme is your sub for?

defcon6000 said:

And 27-day R from Buzzy, haha. Weird though, they pasted the text twice.

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Two negatives make a positive, right?

oh, wait, this isn't math. Sigh.

sorry to hear about all the Rs. I've got something closing in on 200 days out there, the rest are newer as I get back into the groove. So expecting them, but not quite yet.

GreenRoom said:

Which Penumbra theme is your sub for?

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Native American, it's still in the final round. *knock on wood*

They tossed back my Poe sub, haha.

V1c said:

Two negatives make a positive, right?

oh, wait, this isn't math. Sigh.

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Wouldn't be great if it was?

Good luck with the new subs, maybe something will catch.

I'm in my fifties here, all crickets. D:

21 day R from DSF.

Form R from Nature, with a comment about attaching the guidelines for future reference.

Does anyone know if that's typically part of their form? I triple-checked everything when it came back with that comment, and it all seems kosher, from the content through the formatting. I seriously can't find anything, but I'm going to die of shame if I'm missing something stupidly obvious.

I have a story at Interzone that's halfway through its fourth month sitting there, and I'm getting rather antsy about it. It's well past any response times I've seen from them for my work or on Duotrope (for acceptances or rejections). They say not to query and to just move on if it's been too long, but that feels like such a final step, and then I'd never know if I should send something else to them or if that'd be a multiple. Has anyone heard anything from them lately?

sarahthegrey said:

Form R from Nature, with a comment about attaching the guidelines for future reference.

Does anyone know if that's typically part of their form? I triple-checked everything when it came back with that comment, and it all seems kosher, from the content through the formatting. I seriously can't find anything, but I'm going to die of shame if I'm missing something stupidly obvious.

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They did it for me as well. I didn't take it as an insult that I hadn't read the guidelines, haha, just part of their practice.

Nathaniel Katz said:

I have a story at Interzone that's halfway through its fourth month sitting there, and I'm getting rather antsy about it. It's well past any response times I've seen from them for my work or on Duotrope (for acceptances or rejections). They say not to query and to just move on if it's been too long, but that feels like such a final step, and then I'd never know if I should send something else to them or if that'd be a multiple. Has anyone heard anything from them lately?

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If I remember correctly, there was recently a 150ish-day acceptance reported on the Duotrope listing for Interzone. I've submitted to their sister magazine, Black Static. Same head editor who also does most of the slush. Very nice guy.

Their response times seem to run from 5 days to occasionally well over 100, so I wouldn't assume your story's been lost. And if you reread the guidelines, you'll notice they say to not CONTINUALLY query. So one query should be fine, especially since you've hit that 100-day threshold.

defcon6000 said:

They did it for me as well. I didn't take it as an insult that I hadn't read the guidelines, haha, just part of their practice.

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Oh good. I spent all morning feeling like a huge dork. Now I feel better.

18-day DSF. Surprised at this one. I thought I nailed their formula to a T, but I suppose one can never second-guess the inscrutability of taste.

O'Dandelo said:

Their response times seem to run from 5 days to occasionally well over 100, so I wouldn't assume your story's been lost. And if you reread the guidelines, you'll notice they say to not CONTINUALLY query. So one query should be fine, especially since you've hit that 100-day threshold.

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They once lost one of my subs, then lost it again when I resent. So I would def query.

Nathaniel Katz said:

I have a story at Interzone that's halfway through its fourth month sitting there, and I'm getting rather antsy about it.

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I'm at 109 days and checking the post every day. There's an acceptance today at 89 days and Duotrope has their average acceptance at 159!

So I think it is fair to say that we're being held for serious consideration - but it would be nice to hear.

By the way, submitting to UFO totally broke my rejection log jam. Have now had 16 day from DSF and 72 day from IGMS.

7 more to go but at least things are moving again. I totally recommend UFO as a fix if your pendings are threatening to bundle into a rejectolanche.

akaSylvia said:

I'm at 109 days and checking the post every day. There's an acceptance today at 89 days and Duotrope has their average acceptance at 159!

So I think it is fair to say that we're being held for serious consideration - but it would be nice to hear.

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And that acceptance from today was none other than the current hot commodity, Ken Liu.

akaSylvia said:

I totally recommend UFO as a fix if your pendings are threatening to bundle into a rejectolanche.

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Me, too

akaSylvia said:

By the way, submitting to UFO totally broke my rejection log jam. Have now had 16 day from DSF and 72 day from IGMS.

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Sorry for the rejections, but at least you aren't in limbo on those anymore.

0-day UFO! Tough nut to crack. Also, 14-day from Shimmer. Down to my core stories submitted, only 14 total.