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Rejection haiku:

Ah, The Colored Lens,
Your glance swift yet perceptive.
0-day, personal.

Lol! That's so clever :)
I got one of them yesterday, too.

3 hours!
 

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Lol! That's so clever :)
I got one of them yesterday, too.

3 hours!


What?!?!? The fastest they've ever gotten a response back to me was 8 hours. Unacceptable!

*searches primetime hours to send submissions.

I'll beat you Lillie, I'll beat you. My competitiveness holds no bounds.

:sarcasm
 
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Well, you want to try the Sword and Sorceress anthology :)

Last year I got a 21 minute rejection from them.

And then that story got sent to Lightspeed (Fantasy as it was then), and got another R in a few hours.

So that story was sent and rejected twice in one day.

Good luck beating that :)
 

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Well, you want to try the Sword and Sorceress anthology :)

Last year I got a 21 minute rejection from them.

And then that story got sent to Lightspeed (Fantasy as it was then), and got another R in a few hours.

So that story was sent and rejected twice in one day.

Good luck beating that :)

My S&S story for this year was such a slacker...

It took it a good 38 hours to rack up its first two rejections (same two markets).
 

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Quick R from Analog for a 300-word flash. I have a MUCH longer story at Asimov that hit "Under Review" early yesterday evening. So that should be bouncing back to me shortly. Of course I hope it doesn't.
 

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60-day form rejection from One Buck Horror.

According to duotrope, I'm not the only 60-day rejection they sent out today.

They've been slacking. The whole reason I submitted was because I thought I could have a reply by the beginning of April.
(I literally subbed March 4th)

9-day pending response from Daily Science Fiction. Most of their Rs this week are about 20 days or longer, so I expect to see a form R in my inbox in about a week and a half.

And Lillie, I'll figure something out. I'll beat your highscore somehow!
 

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I was the other 60-day rejection from One Buck Horror. Tough as I had high hopes for that. And then an R from Apex within minutes of the OBH one. Are they conspiring against me? :)

Both stories have been sent straight back out.

Ali
 

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Rejection from Apex, sent the story out to Abyss & Apex (if one Apex doesn't take it, maybe the other will ;) ).

Quick R from Analog for a 300-word flash. I have a MUCH longer story at Asimov that hit "Under Review" early yesterday evening. So that should be bouncing back to me shortly. Of course I hope it doesn't.

I'm under review at Asimov's righ now as well. It's making it doubly hard not to check and re-check my e-mail.
 

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Yup, got my 49-day R from Asimov! Sorry guys and girls, we gave it a good run though, didn't we? I'm going to sit on this piece for a while until I can give it the love and attention it needs.
 

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I'm there, but I'm only on 16 days.
 

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Yeah. See you here this time next month!
 

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I was the other 60-day rejection from One Buck Horror. Tough as I had high hopes for that. And then an R from Apex within minutes of the OBH one. Are they conspiring against me? :)

Both stories have been sent straight back out.

Ali

Did you ever query OBH? I did at 55 days, and at 57 days I received a reply back saying they hadn't read it yet (how long does it take to read 300 words?)

I assume mine had just gotten lost in the pile, and I made them fish it out.