Literary Rejections on Display Now Has Long COVID

By popular demand, more from Jacob Appel , the guy who wins when you lose : Hi WR: My last name is pronounced uh-PELL (rhymes with lapel--so...

Here's one sent in by an anonymous LROD reader: I once received my query letter back with manuscript attached.  No note. No stamp. Just ...

Here's a sadly classic rejection note sent in by an anonymous reader: "Dear Writer: Thanks for you interest, but [name of magazine]...

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." -- Winston Churchill.

Dear WR: I confess that I am both highly flattered and somewhat dumbfounded to be the subject of such literary interest. I assure you that ...

If you think the recent VQR insanity wasn't enough, Rebecca Wolff , editor of Fence Magazine   has apparently told one of the writers s...

I'm beginning to think that You Know Who is unstoppable.  This time dude didn't take first place, but  won 2nd place in a contest...

Gawker is sporting this char t, as revised from this chart , clarifying that the people who read books intersect only vaguely with people wh...

The Genoways and Junker bou t from yesterday is going strong for  Round 2 .  Who's going to win this one? (Who cares?)  It's kind o...

An anonymous submitter gives us this joy today: Dear [Writer]: Thank you for seeking me out. I must be one of hundreds that you have sent th...

A very industrious anonymous LROD reader, sent in these impressive rejection stats: Total Career Figures @ 283A-0M-729R out of 1009 response...

Looks like now the editors of VQR   (Ted Genowasy) and Zyzzyva  (Howard Junker) are going at each other.  Have a read here .  What I love is...

Some kind LROD anonymouse made a nice little nest over at Wikipedia . Check it out. One correction: Rosemary Ahern is an editor formerly of...

The  Cum Hither Global (nice name) reports that a literary critic and podcaster named J. Johnson Edwards penned a romance novel to prove how...

I love the LROD commenter "Iowa Grad" who posted over on the Blah, Blah, Blah post (66 comments and going strong; you people are ...