Talk about a TEASE

ccarver30 · May 14, 2007

I just sent my 2nd query letter and I looked in my Inbox to see a response already! OMGZ!

It was an auto-response to let me know they rec'd it.

I guess it's better than nothing! LOL

scarletpeaches · May 14, 2007

Heh. Wondering if emails have been received is part of the trauma. At least you don't have to worry about that.

ccarver30 · May 14, 2007

You're right!

Siddow · May 14, 2007

I thought this was going to be about Scarlet. Funny that she's the first to respond.

I got an email tease once, too. I sent a short story to an anthology and received an email two weeks later. I thought, man, that was fast. Just a 'we got it'. Still waiting for the actual response, but according to Duotrope, a lot of rejections just started going out. Fingers crossed, for you and me both.

Namatu · May 14, 2007

That man is so pretty.

scarletpeaches · May 14, 2007

I'm sorry to be so crude about it, but...I'd do him in the grass.

Siddow · May 14, 2007

The only reason I'd throw him out of bed is to do him on the floor.

scarletpeaches · May 14, 2007

Interesting that Nico says she'd like to wake up next to him. I mean...'wake up next to' suggests she'd actually get any sleep???

scottVee · May 14, 2007

What's that Nico guy doing up there? My tired eyes thought it was David Duchovny at first.

Anyway ... those auto-responses are nice, and I wish every publication would send them to let us know our work was received. The alternative (no auto-response) means we could sit here for months never knowing if they even got it, wasting valuable time (& stress). Email is not guaranteed in any way, and in fact it's less reliable every year, due to the filtering, getting lost in swarms of junk, accidentally deleted, etc.

So I always appreciate knowing a submission has arrived, and is now in human hands.

ccarver30 · May 14, 2007

scottVee said:
What's that Nico guy doing up there? My tired eyes thought it was David Duchovny at first.

Anyway ... those auto-responses are nice, and I wish every publication would send them to let us know our work was received. The alternative (no auto-response) means we could sit here for months never knowing if they even got it, wasting valuable time (& stress). Email is not guaranteed in any way, and in fact it's less reliable every year, due to the filtering, getting lost in swarms of junk, accidentally deleted, etc.

So I always appreciate knowing a submission has arrived, and is now in human hands.

Uh, *I* am Nico! HIS name is Paul Leyden.

Namatu · May 14, 2007

And he's mine.

ccarver30 · May 14, 2007

scarletpeaches said:
Interesting that Nico says she'd like to wake up next to him. I mean...'wake up next to' suggests she'd actually get any sleep???

You have to recharge SOMEtime!!

Chumplet · May 14, 2007

I sent some little snippet to Readers Digest last year, hoping to score a hundred bucks for some lame thing my kid said. Six months later I get an email from them with something like "Congratulations! You qualified!" Turns out it was for the stupid Sweepstakes.

WildScribe · May 14, 2007

Yea, I sent in a query to a magazine and got put on the editor's personal fanmail list for some project of his that I had never heard of. Uh... no thank you, dude. Auto responses are cool, but also quite the tease.

Talk about a TEASE

ccarver30

Nicole Castro

scarletpeaches

ccarver30

Nicole Castro

Siddow

I'm super! Thanks for asking

Namatu

Lost in mental space.

scarletpeaches

Siddow

I'm super! Thanks for asking

scarletpeaches

scottVee

ccarver30

Nicole Castro

Namatu

Lost in mental space.

ccarver30

Nicole Castro

Chumplet

This hat is getting too hot

WildScribe

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