defcon6000
Banned
Just had a hearbreaking personal rejection from one of the bigguns. Not because it was a bad rejection, just that the comments in it made me think that the reader didn’t really understand the story and made me think she had missed the point entirely on quite a fundamental level… That is a whole market now where I will worry anything slightly interesting or challenging won’t make it past the slush reader just because they don’t get it. Grrr.
Ah, I've been there...quite a often, actually. It's frustrating, and I've had to sit on stories because I couldn't find another market for them, but I KNOW eventually they're going to flip an editor's switch -- you just have to find that editor.
Also, the reason I do not like slush readers: many are not well read.
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