[Writingworkshop] Rejection

[Adam Holland]

And...
Just got my own rejection letter from F&SF, for the "Mill of Heaven" story
from last fall.
It was an amazingly quick turnaround, almost exactly a week from me mailing
it to getting the response in my mailbox.
I'm not sure what that means, either about the story or the number of their
submissions.
I have to wonder if they even read it.

Last time they rejected me I got a letter from Gordon.
This time, it was from an editorial assistant.

Text of letter:
Thank you for submitting "But they Grind Exceedingly Fine", but I'm going to
pass on it.  This tale didn't quite work for me, I'm afraid.  Good luck to
you with this one, and thanks again for sending it our way.

Stacey Friedberg, Editorial Assistant.


Oh, well.

Where should I try next?

AH
--
refusing to join the narratives for which I'm being recruited


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Adam Holland <adam.holland at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> http://www.nealemorison.com
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>> +61 417 661 427
>>
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