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Any bets on who'll send me my 300th rejection? Guess correctly in the LJ comments and get a free set of Inconsequential Art #1 & #2, autographed if you want.
One guess per person, and up to five people (the first five to guess correctly) can win. Editors currently in charge of these pending rejections are not eligible. Ends one week from today or when I receive the rejection, whichever is later. My outstanding submissions list is the first comment. Cool?
Submissions 416-419
The Sun (my 4th)
MF&SF (my 20th)
Strange Horizons (my 12th)
Clarkesworld (my 4th)
Rejections 295-299:
Glimmer Train (4 months, 3rd rejection)
Tin House (96 days, 5th rejection)
Realms of Fantasy (4 months, 8th rejection)*
Asimov's (24 days, 16th rejection)
Analog (37 days, 11th rejection)
Of Interest:
Very busy August, but also quite productive in writing and other areas. Hopefully that'll bear some fruit soon.
Learned recently that The Sun is based in Chapel Hill. I received my first rejection letters from there in my Ashland University mailbox, and now I could probably walk to the office (don't know if proximity helps or hurts me, heh). Obviously that means I haven't sent them anything in at least five years. Time to fix that.
*Those submitting to Realms of Fantasy (via slush anyway) would do well to keep an eye on "Slushmaster" Douglas Cohen's blog, especially when he mentions meeting with editor Shawna McCarthy to pick up new slush stories and to pass promising ones along.
Doug has reported response times going down since he started there, though with my last two stories the response time has increased immensely--and it's actually a good sign. Here are the timelines of my last two submissions, my only two stories Doug (or any previous slush editor) has passed to Shawna.
09.16.06 - Sent to Realms of Fantasy
10.22.06 - Doug picks up slush pile to read
11.11.06 - Email from Doug; he's passing it to Shawna
01.03.07 - Actual pass to Shawna
02.09.07 - Rejection from Shawna
05.03.07 - Sent to Realms of Fantasy
06.03.07 - Doug picks up slush pile to read
06.17.07 - Email from Doug; he's passing it to Shawna
07.19.07 - Actual Pass to Shawna
08.31.07 - Latest Acquisitions announced; implied rejection
The above makes a lot more sense now that I've been reading his blog. And this weekend he posted recent acquisitions among the latest "batch," so even before receiving a formal rejection, I've been able to determine that I'm free to send that story elsewhere. So: not a magic bullet that'll turn a rejection into an acceptance, but a tweak to the submission process which gives my story a few days it didn't have before.
One guess per person, and up to five people (the first five to guess correctly) can win. Editors currently in charge of these pending rejections are not eligible. Ends one week from today or when I receive the rejection, whichever is later. My outstanding submissions list is the first comment. Cool?
Submissions 416-419
The Sun (my 4th)
MF&SF (my 20th)
Strange Horizons (my 12th)
Clarkesworld (my 4th)
Rejections 295-299:
Glimmer Train (4 months, 3rd rejection)
Tin House (96 days, 5th rejection)
Realms of Fantasy (4 months, 8th rejection)*
Asimov's (24 days, 16th rejection)
Analog (37 days, 11th rejection)
Of Interest:
Very busy August, but also quite productive in writing and other areas. Hopefully that'll bear some fruit soon.
Learned recently that The Sun is based in Chapel Hill. I received my first rejection letters from there in my Ashland University mailbox, and now I could probably walk to the office (don't know if proximity helps or hurts me, heh). Obviously that means I haven't sent them anything in at least five years. Time to fix that.
*Those submitting to Realms of Fantasy (via slush anyway) would do well to keep an eye on "Slushmaster" Douglas Cohen's blog, especially when he mentions meeting with editor Shawna McCarthy to pick up new slush stories and to pass promising ones along.
Doug has reported response times going down since he started there, though with my last two stories the response time has increased immensely--and it's actually a good sign. Here are the timelines of my last two submissions, my only two stories Doug (or any previous slush editor) has passed to Shawna.
09.16.06 - Sent to Realms of Fantasy
10.22.06 - Doug picks up slush pile to read
11.11.06 - Email from Doug; he's passing it to Shawna
01.03.07 - Actual pass to Shawna
02.09.07 - Rejection from Shawna
05.03.07 - Sent to Realms of Fantasy
06.03.07 - Doug picks up slush pile to read
06.17.07 - Email from Doug; he's passing it to Shawna
07.19.07 - Actual Pass to Shawna
08.31.07 - Latest Acquisitions announced; implied rejection
The above makes a lot more sense now that I've been reading his blog. And this weekend he posted recent acquisitions among the latest "batch," so even before receiving a formal rejection, I've been able to determine that I'm free to send that story elsewhere. So: not a magic bullet that'll turn a rejection into an acceptance, but a tweak to the submission process which gives my story a few days it didn't have before.
Clarkesworld
Strange Horizons
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Sun
MAD
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
The Sundance Film Festival
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
2000AD
Weird Tales
The Journal of Impossible Things
Writers of the Future
ParaSpheres
Wholphin
McSweeney's
Grave Tales
Note: Some have multiple submissions at them.
If not...then my guess is Clarkesworld.
-Sarah Totton
I'll put you down for Clarkesworld.
Alex.
What's the number of your next Acceptance?
What's the number of your next Acceptance?
-Alan; New Mutant
I think I'm at 67.
Alex.
Man... Clarkesworld or F&SF?
I'll go with F&SF on the theory that it's farther down the list so has been out longer.
F&SF
Joy Marchand
Re: F&SF
Though methinks not posting in half a month has sent my readers off to bigger, better things.