::headdesk::

[j_cheney]

I queried an editor who has had a story for 397 days.

I didn't actually intend to.

I located their confirmation e-mail yesterday just to check its date, and considered querying, but decided that their query e-mila addy wasn't likely to be the same as their automated confirmation addy, so I thought "I'll just close this and worry about it when it hits 400 days"

Except I must have hit "send" instead...

I got an e-mail from the asst editor today asking why I'd sent them a blank e-mail, so I figured I'd better go ahead and query...

Which means a rejection is soon forthcoming.

I feelz dumb.

Comments

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

That's okay, an editor at one of the Majors sent me a rejection for another person's story. (grin) Turns out my story was rejected, too, just that the title hadn't been changed in between rejection letters. (double-grin) However, I now have a rejection for a story I haven't written...?

Querying doesn't produce rejections. More likely than not it uncovers rejections that they (thought they had) previously sent. Or else they like their slush piles more than a year deep.

Dr. Phil

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Aw man, collecting other people's rejections is added misery! (Though I guess there's a schadenfreude element to it too...)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

And do you get to count that as your own rejection? Or leave it out of your personal stats....since really, you never got YOUR rejection...

[dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com]

No, I queried and got my rejection -- and a nice apology. And then I told of my job search letter actually sent to a place which didn't happened to be named Boilerplate University... (groan) The Provost there was really nice about it and we had a lovely exchange of e-mails about the dangers of cut-and-paste. At least I had a default setting and wasn't editing old university names... (yikes)

Dr. Phil

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of letters in my files. You know "Please find attached my manuscript "The Short Story"...."

I'm paranoid about those, but I have to print them off to reveiw them anyway.

E-mail, on the other hand, lacks that buffer. ;o)