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darkbow
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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 12:27 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Got a story rejection today, and reached a new first. The editor thought my story was "too literary." First time I've ever heard that.
 
I thought it was funny. :-)

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J Erwine
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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 3:29 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

I had a story that got that rejection twice...kind of cracked me up at the time.  I did eventually sell it to a small on-line zine.

 

 

 
 
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RHFay
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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 4:05 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Congrats on joining the literary ranks! Now you can go publish your stories in those lofty literary journals and leave the rest of us in the dust.

Seriously, I would take it as a compliment.

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!" 
 
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Lyn
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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 4:10 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well, la ti da!

Lyn from ResAliens
Reviewing Zines at The Fix
Reviewing Short Stories at My Blog
And Promoting Strange Worlds of Lunacy

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DAWaverly
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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 8:15 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Congratulations, you have my sympathies...

- Deven
Blogtide Rising

published
"The Journey" at Every Day Fiction

forthcoming
"An Awakening of Shadows" in The Infinity Swords anthology from Carnivah House
"All That Glitters" at Every Day Fiction arriving 30 May 2008.

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darkbow
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  		   Posted 5/9/2008 8:54 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm starting to think melo-dramatic means "a story in which people get killed" and literary means "a story in which no one gets killed." Not an exact definition of course, but close enough, in my opinion. And yes, I realize their are always exceptions. I'm not setting down some rule here, just how I tend to see things.

"Beneath a Persian Sun" upcoming in Carnivah House's "Infinity Swords" anthology
"The Note" upcoming at Every Day Fiction
"The Death of Lester Williams" upcoming in Crimson Highway.
"Steven Spielberg and The Magic Box" upcoming at The Ranfurly Review.
"Peter Piker the Pankin Man" upcoming at Big Pulp

"Zombie Tears" at Tales of the Zombie War
"Walking Between the Rain" at Every Day Fiction
"Deep in the Land of the Ice and Snow" in "The Return of the Sword" anthology
"Hot Off the Press" Ray Gun Revival #25, 2007



www.tyjohnston.blogspot.com
http://radiodarkbow.blogspot.com Two songs a day, every day.

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