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Back to Journal  « Marathon Training Week 13 of 26A: Postponement | Rejection 167 | Clarion Training Month 1 of 4 » Rejection 167 March 20, 2006 Last year I saw a note on Jason Erik Lundberg's Blog about a book of essays on the work of Neil Gaiman with some vacant spots to fill. I queried the editor with a few ideas, and he liked some of them, so I spent a week re-learning how to write an academic paper. I quickly remembered how the format wasn't for me, but I submitted a work on storyteller-protagonists in Sandman by the self-imposed deadline anyway. Well, this morning Jason wrote how the book was going to press. So I queried the editor again, and sure enough he doesn't remember reading my article. Possible that it never made it to him. I know I'm pretty militant about not querying too early (and I really didn't have another market for this one), but this is one time it bit me in the ass. Ah well. 8 months and 10 days to a rejection from The Neil Gaiman Reader from Wildside Press. (Since editor Darrell Schweitzer responded within a few hours of my query today, I can't exactly call this a "no reply.") And the world is spared one of my attempts at nonfiction. Filed under Happy Fun Log, Journal  
Comments: Discuss this entry at LiveJournalSorry to hear that, man. And if you'd known sooner, you might have been able to submit to Joe Sanders for The Sandman Papers (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560977485/ref=pd_sbs_b_2/102-4175420-9262565?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155). But before you throw it out, you might want to check for other possible markets, like Strange Horizons. Posted by: Jason Erik Lundberg at March 21, 2006 10:08 AM 
Thanks, Jason. DS also recommended me a few ideas of where else to sub. Yeah I think I saw The Sandman Papers in a Previews catalog not too long ago. The problem is I'm not very confident in my academic-style writing and it's not something I'm looking forward to revisiting even for reevaluating its submission-worthiness. And subbing to a market like SH? Well, I wouldn't want my nonfiction to discourage them from looking at my fiction. Heh. Posted by: Alex at March 24, 2006 3:59 PM
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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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