This story is clearly cursed
Nov. 20th, 2009 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babarnettI posted back in June that I had sold my story "The Rite of Life-Giving" to Flashing Swords after a long and tortured submission history that went something like this:
May 2006: I write the story
June 2006: The story sells to an online publication after a rewrite request
Sept. 2006: The online publication folds before the story is published
Jan. 2007: Five submissions later, Flashing Swords folds while the story is in their slush pile
Nov. 2007: Two submissions later, someone has revived Flashing Swords, so I try again
Dec. 2007: I get a rewrite request from Flashing Swords but I can't figure out how to address the requested changes, so I decline
Sept. 2008: Four submissions later, another magazine folds while the story's in their slush pile. But I finally figure out how to tackle that rewrite request, so I do it and try the story again at Flashing Swords.
June 2009: Several queries and at least two editors for the magazine later, the story sells to Flashing Swords
Nov. 6, 2009: A teaser cover and TOC for issue 13 is posted, so I begin to think this story is finally going to see the light of day
Nov. 20, 2009: An email is sent to contributors announcing that publication of Flashing Swords has been suspended indefinitely
Between all of that and the fact that this is one of the few sales I've made this year, about the best response I can muster is, "Balls." At least they waited until the day after my birthday to deliver the bad news.
May 2006: I write the story
June 2006: The story sells to an online publication after a rewrite request
Sept. 2006: The online publication folds before the story is published
Jan. 2007: Five submissions later, Flashing Swords folds while the story is in their slush pile
Nov. 2007: Two submissions later, someone has revived Flashing Swords, so I try again
Dec. 2007: I get a rewrite request from Flashing Swords but I can't figure out how to address the requested changes, so I decline
Sept. 2008: Four submissions later, another magazine folds while the story's in their slush pile. But I finally figure out how to tackle that rewrite request, so I do it and try the story again at Flashing Swords.
June 2009: Several queries and at least two editors for the magazine later, the story sells to Flashing Swords
Nov. 6, 2009: A teaser cover and TOC for issue 13 is posted, so I begin to think this story is finally going to see the light of day
Nov. 20, 2009: An email is sent to contributors announcing that publication of Flashing Swords has been suspended indefinitely
Between all of that and the fact that this is one of the few sales I've made this year, about the best response I can muster is, "Balls." At least they waited until the day after my birthday to deliver the bad news.
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Date: 2009-11-21 02:42 am (UTC)Jenn
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Date: 2009-11-21 03:29 pm (UTC)Then I read this post. I'm sorry about that. That really sucks. Really.
Keep your chin up! The fact that two seperate publications wanted to purchase it prior to folding is a good indication of quality. Don't give up on that story. Send it back out!
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Date: 2009-11-21 05:32 pm (UTC)And thanks for the belated birthday wishes!
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Date: 2009-11-23 03:55 pm (UTC)It'll find a new home.
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Date: 2009-11-23 09:55 pm (UTC)Especially hardcopies.