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Rejectomancy: an editorial from Abyss & Apex

April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · sending out your work, submission

Found this en route to other things; it’s an attempt to demystify for writers the several varieties of rejection letters they send out, interspersed with haiku to keep things light

such as

I love your story
Please send more soon. But only
ones without vampires.

and

liked your writing
but I didn’t get what was
with the big robot

Their levels of warm and personal to cool and impersonal (to restraining order style) rejections are fairly similar to what I’ve heard and seen other magazines do (in discussions I’ve had with a few readers/editors, and in gathering my own slips o’ doom), so I think this is useful beyond just submitting to this particular publication.

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