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vaughan_stanger in ra_log

Recent rejections

Jul 15, 2009 13:17

92 days to yet another near miss from Interzone.
43 days to a form R from Weird Tales.
144 days to an R with comments from On Spec.

Please, someone, start a new 'zine ;-)

on spec, weird tales, interzone

Comments 9

jongibbs July 15 2009, 15:15:04 UTC

All on the same day? That's just wrong :(

Still, the near miss sounds promising.

vaughan_stanger July 15 2009, 16:07:16 UTC

The On Spec R was from a few days ago, the others today.

The near miss would be more promising if I had anything else I could send there. Sadly I don't, bar possibly a short-short, but it's not well matched to that market. Frustrating.

jongibbs July 15 2009, 17:40:20 UTC

I don't know if any of these are good for you, but here's my list of flash fiction places to pitch to ( ... )

vaughan_stanger July 15 2009, 18:15:33 UTC

Thanks, John. Some of those are not well known to me, so a very useful list.

Nature/Nature Physics (Futures) is another.

musingaloud July 15 2009, 17:23:36 UTC

Have you looked through the what's new on duotropes lately? Only every once in a great while will there be one or two congratulations. Most are rejections. Yep, downright depressing it is!

jongibbs July 15 2009, 17:33:43 UTC

I tend to us duotrope too. I love that searchable database :)

vaughan_stanger July 15 2009, 18:22:28 UTC

I lurk on that page, with refresh just a click of the mouse away...

:-)

dqg_neal July 15 2009, 18:15:53 UTC

Ouch. Rough to wait 6 months on a submission, but at least that one has comments.

vaughan_stanger July 15 2009, 18:21:00 UTC

Yes, On Spec can sometimes be quite slow to respond. I think my longest wait there was 9 months. That said, the comments for this story were quite useful. It has gone on a diet as a consequence.