Third time is not quite the charm....

[j_cheney]

I had hopes this time, but my submission to F&SF didn't make a home run.

It got to GVG, though, which I feel like I have to consider a good thing (unless he's just doing his own slush now...)

Send it out again Monday...

Comments

[orogeny.livejournal.com]

That's phenomenal, even though it was a rejection. Congratulations!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks...

Still kinda want to be grumpy, though...

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Getting to GVG sounds pretty cool to me! I think he's still got JJA doing his slush.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it just would have been so much cooler if he'd bought it. (Mixed emotions---that whole 'good rejection thing')

Thanks for the whoo, though!

[juliabk.livejournal.com]

I try not to consider how pathetic it is that I'm still counting some rejections as successes. :-)

Rejectomancy *LIVES*!!! :-)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

LOL ;o)

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Yes, getting it to GvG is a good thing (or as a couple of F&SF-published authors have put it to me, that means you got "close"). Out of about two-dozen submissions there in not-quite-three years, I've only gotten two rejections from him.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm trying to look at it positively.