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Got a final round rejection for the Lightspeed one today.

I agree. We can expect an acceptance or rejection. Within a reasonable length of time. I don't take it personally. I'm sure they have no idea who I am. I've sent stuff off to pretty much everyone - and they're the only ones who have come off distinctly unprofessional... yet they're the biggest of th...

I disagree. I think that, as soon as you ask for exclusivity, which is what no sim subbing means, you have entered into trust with that party. As such I believe they owe their contributors the best service they can manage. Incompetence doesn't excuse poor service. If they can't keep their end of the...

Well, I got no response at all. I still haven't heard a thing.

My email to them wasn't rude. I think they owe me a few words. I think even "Fuck off" would be better than the silence.

Hi Ishmael,

I asked if you were English because we Brits have a similar sense of humour. I'm from Hampshire myself.

I'll trawl back and have a look at your Analog Adventure.

Here we go again!

I think all sane writers operate that way. But I am not responding to a rejection. I am responding to bad manners. I hate the one sided nature of their system.

Come across that way? How does it come across to keep hold of someone's work for three hundred days and then reject it without telling them? I couldn't care less how I come across because there is no way I can look less professional than they do. They have a computerised system that takes and orders...

Yeah, they sent me a rejection the other day. :( False optimism. I sent it to Asimov's because it is character based. Where did you send yours?

Is Ishmael English? I haven't visited the other boards too much.

I have the story back now. That's what matters. I still think it is a great story, so I should be able to sell it somewhere. I'm just waiting for that break to give me my first pro-sale.

I hope they send me a rejection or response with a little character now. I really will frame it.

I'll take that as a vote of approval, Martin!

Sod it. Decided to have some fun with them. Dear Editors, I feel compelled to write you a short note to express my disappointment to discover my story, which I queried three times about over its 300 day vacation in the Analog Vaults, has now been rejected without so much as a form rejection. After s...

I have written and deleted a moderately worded email. I will have to see whether this irritation persists. This story was the first thing I ever subbed. I sent it, well, you can work it out, back in June. Luckily, since then I've subbed a lot of other things and had some success, but if I hadn't, th...

I am seriously pissed off. Someone talk me out of sending a strongly word email.

Damnit. I just checked and I got rejected - but I don't even get an email...

I think Analog will be my last choice from now on.

Really??

I waited two days for each word of my story The outcomes were just a little bit gory I wrenched out my heart with a wandering noun Then painted my guts all over the town "Enough!" I cried, tears streaming my face Then shot myself off into deep space I died out there, knowing my life was a ...

Do you think it is worth querying again? I feel like they know all about us now - but nothing seems to change.dx

I am getting a bit sad about the whole thing.
It is like talking to a hot girl all night only to realise she thinks you are gay.

When do we send query number four? :)

Back to nothing happening again. Is this a rite of passage? Is it the trial of unbearable anticipation?

This weekend. It will all be over this weekend. Please.

Pretty please.

With sugar on.

And a cherry.

I am beginning to think we won't hear anything this time either.

All this fuss over an 800 word story.

Tom, I feel... sick?

My nerves are on edge. She cannae take any more, Captain!

We're edging toward the three hundred club!

Well, Apex haven't the rejected me yet. I hope we hear something soon. They must be about to do another round of responses.

Analog are haunting my dreams!