I use Duotope to track my submissions and to find places to submit to. I like it very much. So far I have tracked 81 submissions. Two of them are from before I even joined the site, because I had the information about the submissions in my email. Of those 81 submissions, I've received 61 rejections and 1 acceptance (In Trail of Indiscretion #8). To be fair to me, I also took second place in a contest (the PARSEC short story contest), but I couldn't enter that into Duotrope because I wasn't sure about dates and things.
Anyway, if anyone else that I know has received over 61 rejections in the past year plus a few months, feel free to tell me so.
I've been waiting to hear back from Realms of Fantasy for 129 days now. I got an email from their slush reader to tell me he was passing my story up the ladder. I was very happy. I'm still happy about it, but I really want to know if they're printing it or not. I'm tired of waiting. At the same time I don't want to get an answer because then I won't be able to hope anymore, and I want them to print me sooooooooo bad. It's such a nice magazine. I've got a subscription and everything. Because it's nice.
I have 19 stories out on the market right now. One of them is creative nonficiton. The rest are science fiction, fantasy, or horror, though the horror are really just dark science fiction or fantasy. I have 6 stories that are finished, but need more work before I can send them out.
I have stories out at Realms of Fantasy, Ploughshares, Beyond Centauri, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, From the Asylum, Kaleidotrope, AlienSkin Magazine, Les Bonnes Fees, Aberrant Dreams, Asimov's Science Fiction, Cricket, The Town Drunk, Dreams & Nightmares, Coyote Wild, Escape Pod, Chizine, Horror Garage, and Pseudopod.
Anyway, if anyone else that I know has received over 61 rejections in the past year plus a few months, feel free to tell me so.
I've been waiting to hear back from Realms of Fantasy for 129 days now. I got an email from their slush reader to tell me he was passing my story up the ladder. I was very happy. I'm still happy about it, but I really want to know if they're printing it or not. I'm tired of waiting. At the same time I don't want to get an answer because then I won't be able to hope anymore, and I want them to print me sooooooooo bad. It's such a nice magazine. I've got a subscription and everything. Because it's nice.
I have 19 stories out on the market right now. One of them is creative nonficiton. The rest are science fiction, fantasy, or horror, though the horror are really just dark science fiction or fantasy. I have 6 stories that are finished, but need more work before I can send them out.
I have stories out at Realms of Fantasy, Ploughshares, Beyond Centauri, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, From the Asylum, Kaleidotrope, AlienSkin Magazine, Les Bonnes Fees, Aberrant Dreams, Asimov's Science Fiction, Cricket, The Town Drunk, Dreams & Nightmares, Coyote Wild, Escape Pod, Chizine, Horror Garage, and Pseudopod.
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