a very nice rejection

[eimarra]

From John Scalzi, for my submission to the SF cliché issue of Subterranean. Mine was one of the ones he held a little longer -- "on the bubble" is how he referred to that in the comments for his blog, Whatever. The story's going back out in the mail today. It's good to know that it's so close.

Comments

[kellan_the_tabby]

Oh, excellent, hun. :)

Good luck with it at Analog...

[eimarra]

Thanks. Of course, I realized yesterday that I put a 37-cent stamp on the SASE, and postage goes up to 39 cents on January 8. :(

[kellan_the_tabby]

Oh hell. _That_ sucks.

With luck they've got a way to deal with that...other than 'toss the thing and let's print another one'...

[eimarra]

I sent an e-mail to Dr. Schmidt (though I called him "Mr." Oh, no!) to ask about it. Haven't heard back yet. Will let everyone know if I hear anything.

[eimarra]

Oh, I forgot to say -- I don't mind printing it out and sending it again, so long as I know that's what needs to be done. What I don't want is to wait months, thinking they're holding on to it because they liked it, when they actually threw it away for not having enough postage.

[kellan_the_tabby]

*nods* Makes sense.

I meant something more like if your story was 'on the bubble', the postage thing might be enough for them to decide to print another story instead.