When Rejection Gets Ridiculous

Go check out Robin's site for a great anecdote about rejection.

What really amuses me about this story, though, is what you don't know: Robin was kind enough to tell me the name of the editor in question and I realized that I gave that same editor a Fanboy manuscript back in May 2004...and still have never heard back!

Fortunately for me, it doesn't matter any more. But I admit I am tickled by the thought that -- at some point in the future -- I may get my own enormously, ridiculously delayed rejection from this editor...a year or more after the manuscript in question was acquired and published!

Oh, the writing life! 

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Re: When Rejection Gets Ridiculous
By: Robin Brande on Mon March 26, 2007, 14:16:51

I know--how weird would that be? "I'm afraid I'm going to have to pass." Yeah, sucka, you go ahead and pass! I've been getting fan mail for Fanboy for over a year!

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Re: When Rejection Gets Ridiculous
By: Barry on Mon March 26, 2007, 14:19:47

What's even funnier is that I still have stuff out there that was never rejected...stuff I sent out, like, ten years ago! I included SASEs and everything, even though the stamps probably cost only 25¢ at the time!

I fully realize that these things were either lost or tossed long ago, but a part of me really would like to see some of them float in suddenly after such a long, long absence...