So I'm having a bad day.
Got a nice little rejection in the e-mail box today (that isn't the bad part, stay tuned).
Immediately sent the story out to another rather large journal. Then I realized, while reformatting the story to .doc it made half the story a different font and completely screwed up the page number formatting (did I mention how much I hate the standardization of MSWord?).
I sent another email to the editor, apologizing for the formatting mistake and this time sending the story in email-format with the appropriate line-breaks etc.
Just rechecked my initial email to the editor on a niggling hunch, and guess what? I'd copied and pasted my cover letter from another submission and LEFT THE NAME OF THE WRONG JOURNAL IN THE HEADING.
I'm not going to bother this poor woman with another email. I'll just take my with-prejudice rejection and slink away.
How bad can one writer screw up a relationship with a journal, seriously?
Please share some stories and make me feel better
Got a nice little rejection in the e-mail box today (that isn't the bad part, stay tuned).
Immediately sent the story out to another rather large journal. Then I realized, while reformatting the story to .doc it made half the story a different font and completely screwed up the page number formatting (did I mention how much I hate the standardization of MSWord?).
I sent another email to the editor, apologizing for the formatting mistake and this time sending the story in email-format with the appropriate line-breaks etc.
Just rechecked my initial email to the editor on a niggling hunch, and guess what? I'd copied and pasted my cover letter from another submission and LEFT THE NAME OF THE WRONG JOURNAL IN THE HEADING.
I'm not going to bother this poor woman with another email. I'll just take my with-prejudice rejection and slink away.
How bad can one writer screw up a relationship with a journal, seriously?
Please share some stories and make me feel better