geoedwar wrote:BUT Lightspeed submissions open tomorrow.
I thought it got pushed back again. June 20th or something.
geoedwar wrote:BUT Lightspeed submissions open tomorrow.
geoedwar wrote:Well, just got a form rejection BUT Lightspeed submissions open tomorrow.
MontyApollo wrote:geoedwar wrote:BUT Lightspeed submissions open tomorrow.
I thought it got pushed back again. June 20th or something.
geoedwar wrote:hazlett wrote:geoedwar wrote: I'm in the same camp. We must have submitted at the same time. Looks like she rejected a bunch of 60 day stories but left ours. Eventually we'll scrap together the madness to the method![]()
Like I said, Sheila's messing with us. This is nothing but pure torture.
Asimov's had another round of rejections today according to the submission grinder. I had to check my e-mail after seeing that... still in it though.
morshana wrote:I just got a "nicely done but not quite right for her, looking forward to the next one" rejection from Shiela at Asimov's!
morshana wrote:I just got a "nicely done but not quite right for her, looking forward to the next one" rejection from Shiela at Asimov's!
morshana wrote:I just got a "nicely done but not quite right for her, looking forward to the next one" rejection from Shiela at Asimov's!
morshana wrote:I just got a "nicely done but not quite right for her, looking forward to the next one" rejection from Shiela at Asimov's!
morshana wrote:I just got a "nicely done but not quite right for her, looking forward to the next one" rejection from Shiela at Asimov's!
hazlett wrote:morshana wrote:I just got a "nicely done but not quite right for her, looking forward to the next one" rejection from Shiela at Asimov's!
Congrats! I've never gotten a personal rejection from Sheila, let alone heard of anyone else getting one.
morshana wrote:No worries. It wasn't a personal rejection from Sheila, but rather the second-tier rejection.Maybe that's as personal as she gets? I have no idea. I recorded it as a personal on Submission Grinder because there are only two options there and I want to keep track if/what stories did better and where, at a glance, from the Stat page.
E.CaimanSands wrote:morshana wrote:No worries. It wasn't a personal rejection from Sheila, but rather the second-tier rejection.Maybe that's as personal as she gets? I have no idea. I recorded it as a personal on Submission Grinder because there are only two options there and I want to keep track if/what stories did better and where, at a glance, from the Stat page.
I've just trawled through my old rejection emails. I star the best ones so it didn't actually take too long to find the relevant one. Anyway, Sheila said: "The story is nicely done, but I’m afraid it's not quite right for me. I look forward to your next one, though." In other words, pretty much the same as she said to you, so not really personal, but I was encouraged at the time. Depressingly this was two and a half years ago though and on one of my earliest stories, so I'm beginning to get mighty antsy to get another one, lol.
morshana wrote:E.CaimanSands wrote:morshana wrote:No worries. It wasn't a personal rejection from Sheila, but rather the second-tier rejection.Maybe that's as personal as she gets? I have no idea. I recorded it as a personal on Submission Grinder because there are only two options there and I want to keep track if/what stories did better and where, at a glance, from the Stat page.
I've just trawled through my old rejection emails. I star the best ones so it didn't actually take too long to find the relevant one. Anyway, Sheila said: "The story is nicely done, but I’m afraid it's not quite right for me. I look forward to your next one, though." In other words, pretty much the same as she said to you, so not really personal, but I was encouraged at the time. Depressingly this was two and a half years ago though and on one of my earliest stories, so I'm beginning to get mighty antsy to get another one, lol.
Yep. Second-tier rejection.I got a very similar one from JJA at Lightspeed last year.
hazlett wrote:
Like I said, Sheila's messing with us. This is nothing but pure torture.
LDWriter2 wrote:Got a response from BCS, they will change my E-mail address on my story. By what they said and the fact that I haven't received a rejection yet, I think they haven't read it yet. Which means they are a bit late from their stated turn around.
Need to check Analog and Asimov's later tonight.
dantzel wrote:A thought, LD:
Not that the five senses and the try-fail cycles aren't good, but not every editor wants the same thing, so if the story just doesn't want a certain element, don't feel obligated to put it in. I have a few stories that, based on story structure/style/etc will never* have a chance of winning WOTF, but would do well at Daily Science Fiction or Analog.
* I recognize that 'never' is a strong word, but for certain stories, it's just true.
LDWriter2 wrote:Got a response from BCS, they will change my E-mail address on my story. By what they said and the fact that I haven't received a rejection yet, I think they haven't read it yet. Which means they are a bit late from their stated turn around.
Need to check Analog and Asimov's later tonight.
AlistairKimble wrote:Typically, I'm not a fan of late night rejections just before I go to bed or when I wake up and have one waiting for me, like this morning, however:
I received a very personal rejection from Tor.com, indicating I was so close, and that it was hard for them to imagine another magazine not taking the story.
Anyway, rejection is rejection, but it's amazing when one like this actually motivates.
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