

disgruntledpeony wrote:So, I have kind of a weird question regarding my entry for this quarter and I'd like some feedback from other writers on the subject. I submitted a *very* different version of this story to IGMS last year and it got rejected (rightfully so, in retrospect). The magazine has since had a change in editors, and my story has also been through significant edits including a change in tense and viewpoint.
Basically, what I'm trying to figure out is whether or not it would be a good idea to submit it there again. I don't want to commit a faux paus, and it seems like a serious gray area to me. Any feedback on the subject would be appreciated.
Dustan Moon wrote:Dancing conga rats to all the nods from Dave that you are writing at a professional level! Special "Attaboy" to Ishmael since I feel like I know you a bit, we've been hanging around here awhile. Semis are way cool, because it means it was a toss up as to whether you were finalist or not, and it's usually some fine point of margin. And you get a critique, which may help with future submissions, certainly with strengthening that story for sale elsewhere.
Still deafening silence for me. If I hadn't gotten a Wizehive acknowledgement, I'd be even more worried.
Best wishes to the last ones standing! Maybe this one is it! If not, enjoy the screaming crash to the jagged bottom of the precipice before it ends. : )
Cheers,
~Moon~ ...in all his various incarnations.
morshana wrote:Well, I did not win... just got that call, but I get to use this!
morshana wrote:Well, I did not win... just got that call, but I get to use this!
amoskalik wrote:Congrats Jeanette! So did you get two calls or just one saying you were finalist but not the winner?
emilymccosh wrote:Congrats morshana!!
morshana wrote:Well, I did not win... just got that call, but I get to use this!
morshana wrote:Published finalists - just wondering how that works? Joni asked if I wanted them to hold my story for consideration for a published finalist, and I said of course. I didn't ask her for any details about the process, though, if my story's selected. You just get published, right? No payment for the story? And you get to go to the workshop?
Thanks, Dustan!
ETA: Looked it up elsewhere on the forum. Yep, as I remembered. If selected as the published finalist, you get to go to the workshop. Are all non-winning stories up for selection, so long as author agrees to the hold?
Rebecca Birch wrote:
Hi, Jeanette. Selected non-winning stories go to the workshop and are paid for the publication, but no extra prize money. Not all non-winning stories get held, but I believe most do. (My first finalist was not held. My second is being held.) I actually asked Joni if she has any idea when the selection for this volume might be, in my HM response email, but haven't heard anything back as yet.
Good luck!
Ishmael wrote:And, back in the real world, it took all of two days for Interzone to spin my current semi-finalist (form) but it appears The Grinder is down so I can't record it.
I can also report that my last HM (as amended) had the unusual distinction of being personally rejected twice by Cosmic Roots, who first rejected it from Eldritch, as correctly submitted, but then transferred it to Myths, from which it was rejected as insufficiently mythical. Ahem.
As the first snow of the winter falls and the year ages swiftly, I'm uncertain whether 2016 represents real or merely illusory progress. I may have been published six times in the year to date but acceptances are down. I know I'm writing better (and DF possibly agrees) but does any other editor?
Never mind. "Happy are they who (write) for their own pleasure and not to astonish others!"
disgruntledpeony wrote:So, I have kind of a weird question regarding my entry for this quarter and I'd like some feedback from other writers on the subject. I submitted a *very* different version of this story to IGMS last year and it got rejected (rightfully so, in retrospect). The magazine has since had a change in editors, and my story has also been through significant edits including a change in tense and viewpoint.
Basically, what I'm trying to figure out is whether or not it would be a good idea to submit it there again. I don't want to commit a faux paus, and it seems like a serious gray area to me. Any feedback on the subject would be appreciated.
MattDovey wrote:I think KD got the news they were the published finalist around January this year, though the Q4 winners were also only announced in January, so they're well ahead of schedule here. Dunno why the sudden rush--our book was ready for the gala
MattDovey wrote:I have heard of people doing it with a query--basically saying "you rejected this story long ago but it's since undergone significant revisions and is fundamentally a new story, can I resub?"--and being told yes. I'd only do it very rarely, though, and only if I felt the market was the absolute right fit for the story, because although the editor has changed, the slush team probably hasn't, and the editorial vision of somewhere like IGMS won't change very much--it's still OSC's market, after all, tuned to his ideals (e.g. no profanity).
Have you exhausted all other markets for it?
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