Rejection Blues

[TerryE]

Well, I didn't win the Lilja's Library contest. Darn! I was hoping for that gift edition of IT.

[Randy D. Rubin]

Sorry to hear that , my friend.

[ozmosis7]

Well, at least you tried, and for a hell of a gift too. You'll get 'em next time, Terry.

[Randy D. Rubin]

Got another rejection; this time from Shock Totem. They don't hurt like they used to. I'll just shoot 'em... a different story I suppose. Had you going there for a bit, didn't I?

[Craig Wallwork]

It's not so much the rejection that hurts; it's knowing that there's shit out there getting published.

[Randy D. Rubin]

On that I so agree. I was going to send a story to this one magazine that I thought looked promising and the editor of the rag had a short story of his own on the site that was so incoherent and addle brained that I figured I don't want what I have associated with the magazine. The sentence structures were like sixty plus words of depressing adjectives strung together in one sentence that made no sense at all.

[Craig Wallwork]

Terrible isn't it? I get very depressed at bookstores these days.

[Randy D. Rubin]

I hope that doesn't make me sound too hoighty-toighty or uppity being this new to the game but I know shite when I read it. Magazine editor or seventh grade composition class.

[Craig Wallwork]

No. Your opinion is as valid as any seasoned writer. More so. If you're a reader, then in my opinion you're the authority on what makes a good book/story, not the writer.

[RichardThomas]

keep trying. just got a recent rejection from ST too, but the story wasn't straight horror. i keep trying to stretch them, but they don't LIKE IT. :-)

[C.W. LaSart]

Shock Totem is a hard one I hear. I haven't tried them yet, but they are on my list for the year

[RichardThomas]

you haven't even TRIED them yet? come on, girl. we're all naked and embarrassed out here in the water, join us! i think they just like straight up horror, and i actually have a hard time writing that. i write dark, sure, but it tends to veer into the grotesque or noirish or fantastic. or i just suck.

[C.W. LaSart]

Hmmmm. I am more of a straight up horror gal. They were on my list for last year when I started, but around this time I got the contract for DMB and quit submitting elsewhere for the rest of the year (mostly, a few odd submissions still snuck out when I wasn't looking!). I need to get back to submitting again now that Ad Nauseam is out. I've been lazy

[C.W. LaSart]

AND I love naked, embarrassed men in the water

[RichardThomas]

well show me the way, because i can't figure it out.