Selling Library Fantasy - Rejections
When I started submitting "Library Fantasy," my most recently completed short story, I knew that rejections were inevitable. Hell, I knew I would be lucky if anyone accepted it.
But that didn't mean the rejections didn't hurt.
The first rejection wasn't for "Library Fantasy" at all. It was for my spur-of-the-moment submission of " How Vasilisa the Wise found Vasilisa the Fairest" to the Uncanny sci-fi/fantasy magazine. As I said - that stung. But I told myself that it was a spur of the moment submission - one that had elements from grater Urbis Arcana mythos that I don't really explain. So, I told myself, that I could see why it was rejected.
Then came the rejection from Another Chicago Magazine. That one hurt more. As I said in the original post, it was a Chicago literary magazine, one that I thought would be most likely to be receptive to my work.
Chicago Reader never formally sent a rejection e-mail for my Fiction Issue submission, but, to the best of my knowledge, it doesn't send rejections as a rule of thumb. And given that the 2015 Fiction Issue comes out tomorrow, I'm fairly sure I wasn't going to get accepted. That actually stung less, since I submitted to them four times (counting this one), and I got rejected every time. So it was almost expected.
Still dissapointing, but expected.
I haven't heard back from Printers Row Journal or Momma Tried. And I am going to try to submit "Library Fantasy" to a few more publications.
The quest continues