A good reminder

[mrissa]

I forgot to give my rejection/acceptance tallies for the week. It's just as well that the thing that reminded me was a semipro acceptance: Kenoma wants "Take Back the Night." Hooray for girly Berkeley Tam Lins! (Tams Lin?)

Rejections numbering three and a half: that is, three actual rejections, one message board notice that all Argosy subs from before February have been read and should be presumed rejected if not otherwise known. Since I submitted in January, that means me. (I hope they eventually send an actual rejection, though; not everyone reads message boards or has friends who do.) Two of them were from last week's subs, so hurray for F&SF and Alchemy's fast response times as usual. They've become my first two fantasy market submissions for that reason.

If this continues, I'm going to have to start calling myself a fantasy writer and just leave the "SF and" off entirely. But I don't think it will; I think I'll polish off "Docile Bodies" one of these first weeks and have something else to ship around to SF markets. Which will be in some ways a relief. I don't want to let go of that part of myself entirely.

Comments

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Well, there's a bit of a discussion over the Argosy rejections--so many January people are missing their rejections that there's suspicion that a box either in or out was lost. So it's more like a quarter of a rejection, since you can't be sure they've seen it at all. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that makes me feel any better....

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

Well, you might go ahead and query--I'm not sure if Argosy realises how many subs they don't seem to have rejected, so perhaps if more people query they'll look around the office a little. :)