[Writingworkshop] Rejection

[Neale Morison]

I just received my first ever rejection slip from Asimov's magazine. It 
was for Specs. It's a form letter. Just so you can share the trauma:

Dear Contributor:

Thank you very much for letting us see your submission. We appreciate 
your taking the time to send it in for our consideration. Although it 
does not suit the needs of the magazine at this time, we wish you luck 
with placing it elsewhere.
Please excuse this form letter. The volume of work has unfortunately 
made it impossible for us to respond to each submission individually, 
much as we'd like to do so.

Sincerely,
Sheila Williams,
Editor

Note correct use of gerund. All the way from Park Avenue, New York. If 
you can get rejected there, you can get rejected anywhere!

I sent it in about mid June so they only took six or seven weeks to get 
back to me.

Who knows at what point they stopped reading? The form letter doesn't 
hint much. They didn't even perfume it. I got at least part of the 
protocol right if they managed to stuff the rejection form in the return 
envelope.

Now that I have written a few things, I can just keep on sending them 
out. I can live life in an endless cycle of fevered anticipation and 
slumps of despondency.

Next, Asimov's gets Last Person Singular, and someone else gets Specs. 
Who will it be?

Analog is the same crowd, Dell Magazines, maybe with the same readers.
 http://www.analogsf.com/information/submissions.shtml

Fantasy and Science Fiction, of Hoboken, Noo Joisey?
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm



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Neale Morison
neale at nealemorison.com
http://www.nealemorison.com
35 Frazer St, Leichhardt NSW 2040
+61 417 661 427