Rejection, rejection, rejection...
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49-day form rejection from Apex.
37-day form rejection from Seize the Press.
12 day rejection from Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Personal, but all their rejections are personal.
2-day form rejection from Clarkesword, as expected.
2-day form rejection from Seize The Press and...
2-hour personal rejection from Realm Weavers Anthology.
2-hour personal rejection from Realm Weavers Anthology.
2-hour... acceptance? Longlist? I dunno... from The Echo Tome anthology.
Anyway, they said I passed the first check, so they're provisionally interested, subject to a proper editorial review.
21st response this year.
Anyway, they said I passed the first check, so they're provisionally interested, subject to a proper editorial review.
21st response this year.
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4-day form rejection from Trollbreath.
I received a full request from an indie publisher this morning. I did some googling, and I'm a little skeptical based on some posts from 3-5 years ago regarding the contract - authors have mentioned that they requested the copyright in perpetuity - no, no, no.
However - over the past summer they formed a partnership with a couple of other indie pubs to expand their reach, and as of January, they are distributed by Simon & Schuster in Canada and the US. So, perhaps things have changed and they are more serious now.
I'll go ahead and submit the full tomorrow afternoon. If they make an offer (which is still a big IF), I can always say no thank you if the contract still sucks.
However - over the past summer they formed a partnership with a couple of other indie pubs to expand their reach, and as of January, they are distributed by Simon & Schuster in Canada and the US. So, perhaps things have changed and they are more serious now.
I'll go ahead and submit the full tomorrow afternoon. If they make an offer (which is still a big IF), I can always say no thank you if the contract still sucks.
4 day form rejection from Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores.
Some more rejections. A 40-day form letter from Haven and two agent rejections.
I also finally got a rejection after 170 days for a horror anthology with Flame Tree Press, however I can't count that as I marked it as No Response at the end of last year.
We're up to 35 rejections.
I also finally got a rejection after 170 days for a horror anthology with Flame Tree Press, however I can't count that as I marked it as No Response at the end of last year.
We're up to 35 rejections.
40 day form from Bourbon Penn.
Got a few more over the past two weeks. A 78-day "submit again" form letter from Phantom Pulse, an agent rejection, and a rejection from a No Gods, No Masters anthology, though I forgot how long it was out for (wasn't on Duotrope). It was a long time, though; I found an email from early December apologizing for the delay in sending out their decisions.
Anyway, that's 38 now.
Anyway, that's 38 now.
Mitch
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I'm waiting for the response from Strange Horizons, and I don't understand why I didn't get it yet. They had an opening, and I sent my story two hours after the opening hour, and 70 days later it's still not my turn. I see on the submission grinder that many people got their rejections and a few acceptances, but I guess I can't believe that so many people sent their stories that I'm still so far from being considered. When will the people who sent their stories five hours or twenty hours or forty hours after the opening get their turn then?
Has anyone gotten a rejection or acceptance from them, and if so, how long after the opening hour did you send your story?
Again, I'm not complaining, I'm just puzzled.
Has anyone gotten a rejection or acceptance from them, and if so, how long after the opening hour did you send your story?
Again, I'm not complaining, I'm just puzzled.
Depends on how they process their queue. The time you submit doesn't always make a lot of difference. It might have been assigned to a slower reader, or it might be still in the queue, or it might have been held for further consideration. Grinder and Duotrope says the *average* submission gets rejected in 79 days, so you're still within that.
At this stage, I wouldn't read anything, positive or negative into it. You can always query it, but personally, I wouldn't query until 80 days, given the reported averages.
defaux
May contain traces of purple
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Winner: February Flash Fiction
Winner: February Short Story
Winner: January Short Story
Winner: December Short Story
A few of us still haven't had responses.
I want to believe that not being rejected 5 minutes after the window closed is a positive sign, and no amount of pragmatism from @Naomasa298 will dissuade me from my wishful thinking.
