Heard back from Weird Tales.
Apr. 5th, 2004 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynGot my first remotely positive rejection letter. I am very proud of this. It reads:
Alas but we are overstocked, so we will be buying very selectively until the end of 2004, and our comments must be briefer than usual. We have read "The Price". Sorry, but not this time. This one starts well (congrats) but goes on much too long. WE also wondered: what is the price for those who use the bridge?
Try us again with something else.
We invite your comments on the enclosed Guidelines, so that the next edition can be more helpful to the whole range of Weird Tales writers.
Sincerely,
And then they've got the names of the 'Editorial Horde'.
Translation: your story didn't suck, but you talked too long and you probably should've put a price on those who cross the bridge- that or said they were racking up a debt they'd have to pay someday.
I can live with this, because like they said, the beginning didn't suck. I won't say I'm not disappointed, but I am glad they liked even part of it.
Now to find something else I can give them...
Alas but we are overstocked, so we will be buying very selectively until the end of 2004, and our comments must be briefer than usual. We have read "The Price". Sorry, but not this time. This one starts well (congrats) but goes on much too long. WE also wondered: what is the price for those who use the bridge?
Try us again with something else.
We invite your comments on the enclosed Guidelines, so that the next edition can be more helpful to the whole range of Weird Tales writers.
Sincerely,
And then they've got the names of the 'Editorial Horde'.
Translation: your story didn't suck, but you talked too long and you probably should've put a price on those who cross the bridge- that or said they were racking up a debt they'd have to pay someday.
I can live with this, because like they said, the beginning didn't suck. I won't say I'm not disappointed, but I am glad they liked even part of it.
Now to find something else I can give them...
