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Honorable Mention for me.

Just released a short story that earned an honorable mention in V30 Q3, The Cancer Under St. Paul's . http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kLzBbkorL._AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-51,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg Blurb: To save his father, a child must stand against an ancient evil. Backed into a corner, w...

Nice cover, Rebecca!

ThomasKCarpenter wrote:That's a great cover, Jeffrey! Grats on the release!

Rebecca Birch wrote:Seconded! Really, really nice.

Thanks! It was fun to put together.

Just released a novelette that earned an honorable mention in V30 Q1, The Kerephrine Reaction . Also, if anyone knows how to resize images so they're not ridiculously large, that would be great info to pass along. The BBC codes I tried, didn't work. http://jaballard.com/images/3cf65b4b4e8a52bf569c4c...

How many of you have actually read the SFWA's Bulletin #60? ? What does #60 have to with it? I can't find any link online to it (please post if you have one). Further, I can't find any list of SWFA bulletin issue lists so I'm not sure what year that even was. My search on trying to find #60 lead me...

Rejection for me.

Looks like I'm in good company with Leo & Preston collecting a final round rejection slip. I wonder if there's a way with gmail to scan for rejection phrases & color those emails in pink.

The Grinder shows 16 rejections and 1 acceptance in the past week, time ranging from 73 ... Per duotrope, that rejection at 70ish days was poetry & an outlier by more than half the usual response time. It's encouraging there's movement, but premature to say he's catching up (at least in respect...

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Congratulations, Ishmael & George!

Congrats, hlf!

I think Patty missed an important point of starting at the top as early as possible: to get noticed and remembered by the editor. There's a number of anecdotal stories from writers and editors alike that when the same name keeps popping up they start to root for that writer and are thrilled when the...

* A rewrite suggestion. NOTE: Not a rewrite request. Neither Stan nor Trevor says, "Please change X." That comes too close to a commitment, and they're not going to be tied down that way. But if they say, "I liked this, but not X," you're a fool if you don't try to fix X and sen...

I received a 169 day higher tier form reject today. I had checked the status ~2 hrs before the rejection & it still said "received" at that time. So perhaps longer stories have been held. Although you'd hope that would've been communicated when one queried.

Do you happen to know how much they pay? I can't seem to find it in the guidelines. My memory seems to recall ~3 cents a word. Though I can't recall from where. And I think that rate is American vs. British. I do know they aren't a professional market by SWFA definitions, so definitely less than 5 ...

Point of order: Trevor never uses the "Under Review" indicator. Sheila does, but he never has. My stories have been in "Received" state right up to the point that he rejected them (and after, a couple of times). You can't tell from the status whether it has been read or not. Def...

I'd give them time to respond and write more while you wait. Yes, it sucks to wait, but typically the longer the wait, the better shot you have at acceptance. And under no circumstances would I withdraw your story. Normally, I'd agree. The problem is both hazlett and Leo have been waiting for 245+ ...

Congratulations, Martin! Very cool. Can't wait to read it.

Edited b/c I can't spell.

Rejected

Belated congratulations to everyone on this refreshingly long thread! And congrats most recently to Preston and Elinor.

Preston, getting artwork for a story is long been a dream of mine, it's one of the reasons Writers of the Future attracts me so much--so very cool!

A friend on another website queried Analog recently. Their story was at ~150 days and Analog said it would be another 2-3 months. Which is about on target for what I expected when I sent mine in back in the beginning of September based on the sparse responses on duotrope and submission grinder.

Gower21, thanks for the perspective, you summed it up well.

And Martin, thanks for sharing your experiences and passing along advice. It's all very insightful and I appreciate it.

And I, in turn, heard it from Mike Resnick. He very strongly urged me: just because you CAN submit more than one doesn't mean you SHOULD submit more than one. Just because it works for Brad doesn't mean it will work for you. Every writers different. Mike advised me of this when I asked him about su...

I've now got 3. But the latest rumors I've heard is that multiple submitting like this is a bad idea, so now I don't know what to think. wotf017 I think it depends on the market & how far you space them out. At Analog's current rate you'd only be able to submit 1, possibly 2, stories a year--wh...

Form reject for me for Family Traditions. I think I'm going to target the Asimov call next (after writing a couple other stories) & let the word count spiral out of control.

Received a personal rejection from tor.com. They had pulled it aside for further consideration because of the "interesting premise & smooth prose" but had a hard time identifying with the main character (she has Aspergers, but my fault for not making that clear). This story was my V30 ...

Honorable Mention

Just got my second-in-a-row "Well done but not quite right for me; look forward to the next one" rejection from Sheila at Asimov's. wotf007 and wotf005 That's awesome! Two in a row from Asimov's, three in a row from F&SF. Any day now I'll be reading your stories in both of them. wotf007

When did she say that? I was at that panel when she & Gardner were discussing the relationship b/w editors & writers but I don't recall that. Seems like the thing that would set off fireworks in my head. Duotrope says no to multiple submissions, but their guidelines on closer reading don't ...