"Oh, this story is really interesting, but you know... she did send us that blank e-mail... guess we'll have to reject." :-P
I feel for you, though. I sent a poem in to a place a little while ago and then foolishly asked for a status update a mere 2 WEEKS after sending it in! And they said explicitly on their page not to check on status until after 3 months had gone by. So I feel like a total idiot, and obnoxious to boot. I have an excuse--the submissions page was down when I went to check up on turnaround (but what was I thinking? no one turns around in two weeks...)--so I just sent off the query.... and to the wrong address, too (because on the submissions page, there was a different address if you were checking status... but of course since the page was down, I didn't see that...)
So yeah, now I think that poem is DOOOMED... but I had better wait until my three months are up and see...
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"Oh, this story is really interesting, but you know... she did send us that blank e-mail... guess we'll have to reject." :-P
I feel for you, though. I sent a poem in to a place a little while ago and then foolishly asked for a status update a mere 2 WEEKS after sending it in! And they said explicitly on their page not to check on status until after 3 months had gone by. So I feel like a total idiot, and obnoxious to boot. I have an excuse--the submissions page was down when I went to check up on turnaround (but what was I thinking? no one turns around in two weeks...)--so I just sent off the query.... and to the wrong address, too (because on the submissions page, there was a different address if you were checking status... but of course since the page was down, I didn't see that...)
So yeah, now I think that poem is DOOOMED... but I had better wait until my three months are up and see...