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Back to Journal  « Skeleton Kiwi | 2008 Submission Log Weeks 28-35 | COMICS ACCEPTANCE! - Outlaw Territory II » 2008 Submission Log Weeks 28-35 August 21, 2008 Submissions 545-550 F&SF (my 23rd sub there) Apex (4th) Fantasy (7th) Talebones (7th) Beneath Ceaseless Skies (1st) Flytrap (4th) Rejections 398-406 The Believer (13 days on two poems) Aberrant Dreams (30 days) Weird Tales (34 days) Chizine (27 days) Tin House (61 days) OSC's IGMS (83 days) Apex (21 days) Assumed Lost, Etc. 71 Drawn and Quarterly, two for two of no replies. Ah well. The slush pile isn't going to be my way into this particular publication... Of interest Why is it that as soon as I finally get a feel (correct or not) for an editor's taste, s/he never gets to read what I send because my stories stop getting past the first reader/slush editor? (Is it because slush editors are much better suited than I am to judge the editorial tastes of their publications? Yes? Well, that's... Oh. I guess that makes sense then.) I've never had stories out so long at F&SF (41 days), McSweeney's (6.5 months), LCRW (13 months), A Public Space (109 days), or Fantasy (73 days; hold request at 19 days). I'd like to be optimistic, but, going by my statistics, I'm about twice as likely to receive no reply as I am to receive an acceptance. Got a hold notice from Apex (yay!) for a story that was rejected a month earlier (boo!). Naturally I assumed one of the editors was a dirty liar (yay?), so I emailed for clarification, and--since the story in question was in circulation elsewhere--offered to pull that story from another market. Alas, they apologized and decided they should go with the original decision (boo!). |
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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, LCRW, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, ChiZine, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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