From a reader who got rejected from the
Foundling:
Some nice lines in there. "....Christ coming back on pancake, fake like the man on the moon." Overall, this one didn't seem right for Foundling Review. We have finally decided to pass. Please take some time and report our submission response times to Duotrope. We would really like that.
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Looks more like Gerry Garcia on a pancake.
Looks more like Gerry Garcia on a pancake.
It's tacky to ask the submitter to report their response to Duotrope. Not every writer uses Duotrope anyway.
I do get why they ask, Duotrope's stats are inaccurate. Most people who do use Duotrope are happy to report their acceptances and loath to report rejections. (They show our journal with an acceptance rate 10 times higher than our real acceptance rate.) But still, it seems indecent to ask the writer to report his rejection.
Imagine a rude editor writing "Please report this insulting, self-indulgent tirade of a rejection to LROD." That would be f-ing hilarious.
BTW, we've learned how not to reject writers by reading your blog. Thanks WR and anonymice!
It's always odd when a rejection asks for a favor. Gee, report to Duotrope, what a deal.
Hey I used to keep those stats too!
I was thinking it looked from Frank Zappa than Jerry or Gee-zus.
John Bruce has some egomaniacal things to say regarding his own writing and Foundling Review on his ridculous blog. (Scroll down: it's just a post or two below his tactless criticism of a suicide note.)
john bruce is practically having an orgasm over the vqr tragedy. he's found a way to stay "neutral" on the topic by trashing both sides.
Anyone who criticizes typos in a suicide note and then thinks that's somehow indicative of intellectual weakness must have fathomless insecurities himself. Look up "schadenfreude" in the dictionary, and you'll find a photo of John Bruce. I didn't think it was possible, but he's reached new lows this time, even as he's pumping himself up to greater heights (in his own head, that is). A sad, old man.
I'm wondering why Duotrope manages these statistics. I'm old school, when writers did not imagine they had the right to a speedy response. The net lets us tsunami magazines with submissions, then check to see how quickly they are mowed down. Get lives everyone!
Well, when a journal requests no simultaneous submissions, and you respect that, and they don't reply for six months to a year, or maybe never reply ... that's why we need Duotrope.
But I consult their stats without reporting anything, so I'm part of the problem.
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