Gah! Had an end of the year rejectolanche this weekend, including one of my hopeful middlers.
10-day from Innsmouth Free Press
10-day from Waylines
25-day from Kazka Press
89-day from Penumbra
Three out of the four were personals, so that's good, eh? But man, it's rough when they tumble in together like that.
First rejection for the New Year - 11-day personal R from Waylines. They've gone to pro rates, give personal R's (mine was actually very nice) and respond quickly - I'll definitely sub to them again.
It's been crickets for me since December 17th. I'm sure the editors will be back at it soon enough.
A dream-crushing 132-day R from Bl@ck Static to start off the year! And since this story is really not speculative at all, I submitted it to Glimmer Train today. My first foray into full-on literary. Now that's intimidating.
I got a personal R on the same story from Asimovs and it had been accepted by GUD (until I finally withdrew it) so I'm confident it's a solid story. A good story, even. I'm just not sure where to find it a home.
Aggy, will try Strange Horizons once they open up in January
When I looked in the morning, they hadn't updated their website to saying they were officially open and when I checked in the evening, they were closed again until Feb 1st!
Hope you were quick! I had a story I planned to sub to SH when they re-opened. When I looked in the morning, they hadn't updated their website to saying they were officially open and when I checked in the evening, they were closed again until Feb 1st!
You didn't miss a submissions window or anything, Eliza. Strange Horizons just pushed back the reopening until Feb. According to their blog their publishing schedule is full up until July, so that's why.
I was pretty disappointed though!
You didn't miss a submissions window or anything, Eliza. Strange Horizons just pushed back the reopening until Feb. According to their blog their publishing schedule is full up until July, so that's why.
I was pretty disappointed though!
11 day R from Ideomancer. Not sure if it's a form or not. ("liked the voice but the genre elements were too conventional".) What am I to write on my handy dandy new post-Duotrope spreadsheet? *head scratcher*.