That de-escalated quickly. One-day rejections for both – but with an invitation from UFO to submit something else, and a nice personalized rejection from F&SF.
Also today, a personalized rejection from Beneath Ceaseless Skies for “Castle”. I’m now puzzling over how the pace of an 1800-word story (involving a little girl growing up to adulthood and a wizard fight) can be “too slow”.
Originally shared by Mike Reeves-McMillan
Well, two big submissions sent out: a story for Unidentified Funny Objects (who have given me several encouraging rejections in previous years), and Brother Blue to F&SF.
Pleased to see that F&SF have joined us in the 21st century and now allow electronic submissions.
And now we wait.
Of course, I’ve now turned all those stories around and sent them out to different markets, and sent another to UFO. So 23 submissions so far this year in 13 weeks – well on track to my goal of 60.
So far for 2016: 11 form rejections, 2 personalized rejections, 2 acceptances. Totals for 2015: 52 submissions, 29 form rejections, 13 personalized rejections, 8 acceptances.
Hang in there. To better things ahead!
Persistence is the key.