My First Rejection Letter Baby!
I received a rejection letter from the magazine I sent my short story, "The Architect of Planets", to. It would have been fantastic to have it published but I'm not crushed. It just makes me want to try again. You haven't heard the last from me, unnamed magazine! I'll just do what almost every other writer in history has done: Submit my first story to other magazines, write new stories to submit to you, stare balefully at the current bestsellers list for far too long, and so on.
It's also not as if the publisher stuffed their copy of TAoP into a bottle along with an oil-soaked rag, set it on fire and yelled "This is what we think of your precious story!" while flinging it through my front window*. They actually wrote a small paragraph explaining what they thought and why they didn't take it. I appreciate that they took the time to do so, considering how many submissions they must get.
In the meantime the holidays have been going nicely for me, and I hope everyone else's winter festival of choice went well. A Happy New Year to everyone!
*Although that would have been kind of cool.
It's also not as if the publisher stuffed their copy of TAoP into a bottle along with an oil-soaked rag, set it on fire and yelled "This is what we think of your precious story!" while flinging it through my front window*. They actually wrote a small paragraph explaining what they thought and why they didn't take it. I appreciate that they took the time to do so, considering how many submissions they must get.
In the meantime the holidays have been going nicely for me, and I hope everyone else's winter festival of choice went well. A Happy New Year to everyone!
*Although that would have been kind of cool.