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2007 Submission Log: Week 27-28
July 16, 2007

Submissions 400-410:

Stories to Strange Horizons (11th), Shimmer (3rd), LCRW (5th), and Analog (11th). Comics to 2000 AD (6th script), The New Yorker (7th sub overall, 1st gag cartoon), and MF&SF (1st gag cartoon, 19th sub overall, 400th sub anywhere overall). Poetry to Weird Tales (5th sub overall, 1st poem) and the Journal of Impossible Things (1st-3rd subs).

Rejections 280-288

From Mythic Delirium (34 days), Interzone (43 days), Analog (28 days), Asimov's (40 Days), a manga proposal for the Feminist Press at CUNY, Strange Horizons (14 days), and MF&SF (11 days from GVG, probably because gag cartoons don't go through JJA).

Of Interest:

In addition to the 400th sub milestone I hit on the 3rd, I'm also at 150 subs since I sent "Outgoing" to Asimov's. Ouch.
Some positive news on what I'd probably argue is my weakest story currently in the slush: been asked not to disclose it yet, but it's in the caliber of a slush editor passing a story along to his or her senior editor or the story placing in the top x of all submissions and going to a "next round" of judging.
Some nice comments in the Asimov's rejection, but not enough to buy it or request a rewrite.
Late-Spring cleaning means I've pulled or counted as no reply some older stories and scripts out there. Some due to no faith in recieving a reply. Some due to no faith in the submissions anymore.
The big comment on the Interzone rejection said "too punny or something." Since the story had humor but no puns, I've decided that the mysterious roadbloack that keeps so much of my work from selling can be conquered if I can just decipher what that "or something" is.
Second time in a row for no comments from Strange Horizons. I may be losing them.
A few of these are new pieces.

Filed under Analog, Happy Fun Log, Interzone, Journal, MF&SF, Milestones, Strange Horizons, Writing, Writing Life

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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say.

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