Can't talk, I'm checking Duotrope's

[babarnett]

It occurs to me that I may be entirely too obsessive.  It's a good trait to have when your day job involves a constant stream of deadlines for grant proposals and reports and people wanting to know when you're going to hear back on the proposal you only just sent five seconds ago.  But as a writer tossing short stories out into Submission Land…[Poll #1653193]

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[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

I check my gmail for records as well as Duo. As for querying - never, unless I see that I am a) the oldest sub on duo, b) sub is in the red, and c) the market is responding to much younger submissions. I have queried three times under these circumstances, and all three times my sub had been lost or misplaced.

[blood-of-winter.livejournal.com]

well considering i only have 2 subs out there and both are over the time frame stated by the auto-reply email, THIS MIGHT MEAN SOMETHING (ETA -im pretty sure it means i got lost in translation somewhere lol)

:)

any word on the zombie anthology?

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

Maybe THIS is why I don't do shorts!

[kristajhl.livejournal.com]

Glad to know I'm not the only one who has a problem.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

I do need to qualify that in my early days of subbing I might have checked email every oh...let me see...hour? Because I just knew editors would recognize my brilliance and rush to get back to me.

Right.

After ten years of sending out subs, I tend to forget stories are out in the wild. Color me old and cynical.

[musingaloud.livejournal.com]

btw, I got my zombie antho rejection this last week. I subbed 10/24.

I *used* to obsessively watch Duo, but I've broken that spell. Until it gets close to their reported response time, and then I check it every few days.