Congrats, ODandelo!
As for me, I'd lost my way right at the start of the new school year. It's a busy time for high school English teachers, to say the least. But I started my new weekly story last night, and OH, HOW I'VE MISSED YOU FOLKS!
So here's my question -- Tomorrow it will be three weeks since I received a contract for a story accepted by a pro magazine. I signed it, scanned the signature page as instructed and e-mailed it back the following day. So far, I haven't received their signed copy of the contract or had any contact from the person assigned as my fiction editor.
Should I be worried yet? For the sales where I've had to send an actual signature before, I've received a response very quickly with their signature to complete the contract.
I don't want to bug the editor-in-chief, but I also am not sure how long I should wait before making sure that they got my e-mail.
Any thoughts?
Does anyone know anything about what's up with Nine? I've had something on submission there for 2 months, which duotrope claims is a pretty long time. Duotrope also says that nobody's had any responses from them in a month, and their twitter hasn't been updated in a month either...
(Also, hi, sorry I haven't been around much)
"It is open to your honour to find, on the balance of probabilities that [Peters'] personality had substantially disintegrated. You're talking about someone who is completely isolated ... has no social contact with their family or friends, and is obsessively writing a novel ... That does go to a substantial reduction in criminal culpability."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/coll...-says-judge-20121107-28xi5.html#ixzz2BWJY5TzT