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400TH REJECTION CONTEST (2008 Submission Log Weeks 25-27)

400TH REJECTION CONTEST (2008 Submission Log Weeks 25-27)

[info]alexotica
7/4/08 02:00 pm
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Alex Wilson, writer of fiction and comics, carrboro
(scroll down for the "Guess my Rejection" contest)

Submissions 530-544

No brain power for links, maybe I'll add 'em later.

Weird Tales (9th)
The Colbert Report (1st)
Drawn & Quarterly (2nd)
The Believer (1st-5th)
Abberrant Dreams (1st)
Writers of the Future (20th!)
ChiZine (7th)
Supergrrrl Adventure Comics (1st)
Asheville Film Festival (1st)
Light (5th-7th)

Rejections 393-397

F&SF Haiku Contest (date not available)
The Believer (8 days on three poems)
Asimov's (15 days)

Hold Request

From Fantasy, 18 days. Here's hoping.

Acceptance 74, Tentative Acceptance 75

Sale of "Dry Frugal with Death Rays" to Futurismic, 42 days.

Tentative acceptance from Supergrrrl Adventure Comics (1 day) pending a rewrite. This is a new, nonpaying zine from Rachel Edidin and Jen Vaughn.

Pulled, Folded, or Otherwise No Reply 67-70

Cosmos (story), Interzone (story), Murky Depths (2 poems)

Of Interest

Yes, I entered the McCain greenscreen challenge thing. Don't know what I was thinking other than I needed to finish a project I could actually finish. A couple of bad PCS weeks, last month.

Completely flaked on catching the F&SF issue announcing the winners of the haiku contest. Mine was an obvious joke anyway; glad it only had an audience of one (the editor/judge).

Wow, 20th sub to Writers of the Future. It's what I was hoping to submit the week I got in the accident, so I _think_ it's finally submission ready, six months later. Brain injury aside, this story had more technical challenges than anything I've ever written, and it's been brewing at least since April '05 when I pitched it to a friend as a comic.

Guess my 400th rejection, win a prize!

Hey, time sure flies. First (up to) THREE PEOPLE to correctly guess where my 400th rejection will come from wins:
  • a copy of the February 2007 Asimov's Science Fiction issue (includes my novelette "Outgoing"), autographed if that's of interest
  • a DVD-R with at least one currently unavailable film project of mine, and
  • my recorded narrations of seven (7) Edgar Allan Poe tales (most of 'em bestsellers at Telltale Weekly)
Put answers in the LiveJournal Comments (LJ datestamps will determine tiebreakers). One guess per person. Entries accepted through July 13, 2008, 11:59PM, Eastern U.S. time.

Currently at Rejection #397. Current outstanding subs:
  1. Paraspheres (sent 5.29.07)
  2. LCRW (sent 7.13.07 and 6.01.08)
  3. Actor's Theatre of Louisville 10 minute play (10.31.07)
  4. McSweeney's Quarterly (2.12.08)
  5. McSweeney's Books (2.19.08)
  6. A Public Space (5.03.08)
  7. OSC's IGMS (5.15.08)
  8. Tin House (5.31.08)
  9. Fantasy (6.09.08, hold request on 6.28.08)
  10. Colbert Report's McCain greenscreen challenge (6.19.08; probably won't receive a rejection or acceptance)
  11. Weird Tales (6.19.08)
  12. Drawn & Quarterly (6.23.08)
  13. Abberant Dreams (6.23.08)
  14. Writers of the Future (6.29.08)
  15. ChiZine 14th Contest (6.29.08)
  16. The Believer (7.02.08; two poems)
  17. Asheville Film Festival (7.03.08)
  18. Light (7.04.08; three poems)

And, okay. If all of the above end up as acceptances, and my 400th rejection has yet to even be submitted, I will be so happy that once I recover from the shock, I'll do my best to give everyone who enters a prize of some sort or another. (EDIT: And if something I've yet to submit--not listed above--ends up as my 400th rejection, prize goes to whoever guesses #401, and so on.)




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  • [info]ombriel
    7/4/08 07:30 pm (UTC)
    Hi Alex--it was nice to meet you at WisCon! I'll guess #7 will be the 400th.

    You've had something at LCRW for almost a year? Have you heard from them at all &/or queried? I'm curious because I'm coming up on the 6 month mark.

    • [info]alexotica
      7/4/08 07:50 pm (UTC)
      Great to meet you, too, Darja.

      Yeah, I've queried. They're just insanely busy with teaching, traveling, cons, etc. Check duotrope occasionally, and I'd say it can't hurt to query in a month or so.

      Alex.

  • (Anonymous)
    7/6/08 06:27 pm (UTC)
    Very well. I'll submit to this grisly task if only to acquire the riches promised herein. But it is a fell task, I tell you!! A grim task indeed!!!

    I say Paraspheres will give you your 400th rejection.

    *weeps a little*

    But, hey, look at what you've done and are still doing. With a brain injury, you've still got more drive than 1/2 dozen of us with so-called intact melons.

    Bravo!

    -Alan

  • [info]livia_llewellyn
    7/7/08 01:24 pm (UTC)
    Ok, now that the HOLIDAY WEEKEND is over, and I'm once again reading lj - :P - I can try to guess. Hmm...I hate to say you're going to be rejected from any of these markets, and I don't want to feel like I'm jiinxing you...gah! I'm going to kind of cheat, and say you'll be getting a "response" from Fantasy Magazine first - only because I know Cat Rambo has been trying to shorten the submission process time. Notice I said "response" - I'm hoping it will be an acceptance instead of a rejection. This is one contest I want to lose. :)

    • [info]alexotica
      7/8/08 03:00 pm (UTC)
      I'm under the suspicion that most who read my stuff would prefer to do so on company time.

      I hope you lose as well. I've had a hold request there for about ten days.

      Alex.

  • [info]alasdair1076
    7/7/08 02:40 pm (UTC)
    I will go for Aberrant Dreams I think.

    • [info]alexotica
      7/8/08 03:03 pm (UTC)
      Good choice. I haven't submitted there before, so I've only Duotrope response times to estimate with. Thanks for playing.

      Alex.

  • [info]kellysarah
    7/7/08 03:16 pm (UTC)
    Congrats on the sale! I'm not jinxing you by guessing. I hope they all sell!

  • [info]ruralwriter
    7/8/08 08:24 pm (UTC)
    I'll go with ChiZine. (Although I was tempted to go with F&SF just because I could see you submitting there in the meantime. :-) )

    I think it's incredibly awesome that you've had that many submissions. I'm a little embarrassed by my lack of subs. I sit in awe of you, sir.

    • [info]alexotica
      7/11/08 06:04 pm (UTC)
      Well, you can have as many subs as me or you can have fewer if you do them right. If I could turn back time...

      Thanks.

      Ale.x

  • Oh my lord! You are doing everything!

    [info]maryturzillo
    7/8/08 10:29 pm (UTC)
    Good heavens, Alex! I turn around for fifteen minutes (well -- maybe it was more like a couple years) and here you are all over the place! The last time I saw you was at that Solstice party at Beqi Carmi's? Is that right? We thought you were an FBI informant. You were so quiet.

    Congrats on all your appearances. And I love your blog and web page.

    • Re: Oh my lord! You are doing everything!

      [info]alexotica
      7/11/08 06:13 pm (UTC)
      Hey Mary. Great to hear from you. I don't remember the occasion, but it's been six years since I moved from Cleveland, so that sounds about right.

      Thanks for remembering me as a "quiet" boy instead of as "that annoying kid who thought he knew everything but we tolerated him because he's gotta learn someplace." I did learn a great deal as a Hamster, and I appreciate y'all taking me in.

      I am not now nor have I ever been an FBI informant, but if you send me the name of the person who suggested such a funny joke, you'd be doing your country me a valuable service.

      Alex.
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