Well I just found out that I am being ignored. I started using Duotrope about two months after I started submitting like crazy, and needed it to keep track of where I was sending my stuff (now I just use it to keep track of days. I have an Excel spreadsheet for everything else). So a lot of my rejections aren't on there. I don't remember how long they were gone, so I am not going to make something up.

 

I guess that this really isn't a gripe. I think it's kinda funny though. You just can't get mad at something like that.

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**~**~Heather~**~**

 

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Forthcoming: 

 

 

How did you find out you were being ignored?

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Brian Dolton

 

Yi Qin stories:

"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3

"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #20

"Where No Wind Blows" - Staffs & Starships #2 (forthcoming)

"What The Sea Refuses" - Black Gate (forthcoming)

"At Blue Crane Falls" - Abyss and Apex (forthcoming)

 

Other Land Of Wind And Ghosts stories:

"The Dragon Path" - Fictitious Force (forthcoming)

"Three Out Of Four" - Sorcerous Signals (forthcoming)

 

Stories in other settings:

 

It's all done automatically.  I'm sure they have a cut-off percentage of sales vs. rejects, and if a writer tips over the cut-off they stop counting their stats until they tip back.  I suppose they have to, though, because I'm sure some people do delete their rejects and only keep their accepts.

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 Kate Shaw

 

"Honeymoon" Desolate Places, Hadley Rille Books

"Sawmill Road," "Bad Luck," "How My Sister Lost the Game," Every Day Fiction

"Trompe L'Oeil" Staffs & Starships #1

"Sea and Sky" Black Dragon, White Dragon, Ricasso Press

"Final Episode" Triangulations 2007: End of Time

**~**~Heather~**~**

 

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Skulkers. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. RAT's. La Carcajou. Jet Bike Boogie...at www.pulpanddagger.com

Swamp Story. Down South. Florida Haze.Wild Justice...

at www.bikernet.com (Plus many of my motorcycle related articles.)

The Covert OP. Chick Prick...at www.milstory.com

 

For example: if I've had a story on submission to an anthology for a couple months, and I see there are suddenly a half-dozen rejections listed, I know the editor is finally tackling her slushpile.  I can also see how many pending responses are listed, which gives a bit of an idea how popular a particular antho was (this gives only a rough idea, as very few writers, relatively speaking, use the Duotrope sub tracking).

 

Also, if you have a story on submission to a market which has response times reported well after you subbed them, you can hypothesize your piece is being held for further consideration.  You can also study search stats (how many people, exactly, are trying to find pro-paying markets for horror flash fiction?), or response times (knowing my own hatred of excessive response times, do I really want to send my story to a market which takes 200 days to respond?  Or should I consider sending that story to the market with the 35 day average response time instead?).

 

It's quite addictive actually, as the information is continually updated.

Ralan's and Storypilot are each excellent, too, and provide different sorts of information. (Ralan's is great because it lists editors by name, for example; and Storypilot is handy if you need a shortcut to finding all SFWA-qualifying markets.)