Submission Question for LJ Land

[stevenagy]

It's four months since I snailed "Romeo, Unbound" across the Atlantic to Interzone. Anyone in LJ land know what's a reasonable time to wait before querying them as to whether it was lost in the murky depths west of the island?

Note to self: I really need to tackle the rewrite on "Sacrifices" so I can sub it to F&SF or Fantasy.

Comments

[stevenagy]

The main reason I'm asking now is I know they just finished their email subs about a month or so ago, and those were from September. My sub posted the last week of October, so it's probably right in the slush they're going over right now.

[splinister]

Steve, my last rejection from Interzone clocked in at just under three months (late November - mid February). I think three months is an entirely reasonable length of time to query a submission. Someone I know has one of their stories "on hold" at IZ, and it's been in that situation for three months.

If you send in a story during the occasional windows where they allow email subs you will probably get an answer from Jetse within a month.

I can't see how anyone could think that a politely worded query after a three-month wait is not reasonable.

Best of luck with it!

[stevenagy]

Thanks. Both of these pieces of information are what I was looking for to gauge the query. I only subbed to IZ once before and can't recall the time frame of the response.