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Remember this: Someone out there will always say no.
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- Writer, Rejected
- I am a published, award-winning author of fiction and creative nonfiction--but whatever. In the eyes of many, I am still a literary reject.
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5 comments:
Yeah, annoying. But at least it's a reply. Unlike McSweeney's, which keeps submissions for years and, if my experience and the experience of another writer friend is at all common, no longer sends out rejections at all.
I sent three emails to Jordan Bass over a period of three months and never got a reply at all, not even an annoying one. Which is actually much more annoying.
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Still, you want to be in. In in in. Let me in! There's a hell of a party going on in there, I just know it.
Yeah, I want my book published, fershizzle. I guess that means I want in. Was there ever any question of that?
"...the story missed its chance to connect with me." I think what this respondent really meant was..."I didn't have time to read your work, but I don't want to have to admit that because its unprofessional so I'm going to blame your story for ending at the bottom of the slush pile.
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