[Writingworkshop] Rejection

[Adam Holland]

I'm going to send something to F&SF soon, I think.
--
refusing to join the narratives for which I'm being recruited


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Neale Morison
> neale at nealemorison.com
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