Rejection from Clarkesworld

Dear Cynthia,

Thank you for the opportunity to read "On Fate's Waiting List." Unfortunately, your story isn't quite what we're looking for right now. Each month, we receive hundreds of submissions and while I may like many of them, I can only publish twelve of them per year.

In the past, we've provided detailed feedback on our rejections, but I'm afraid that due to time considerations, we're no longer able to offer that service. I appreciate your interest in Clarkesworld Magazine and hope that you'll keep us in mind in the future.

Take care,

Neil Clarke
Publisher/Editor
Clarkesworld Magazine
www.clarkesworldmagazine.com


Simple form letter... but that's all Clarkesworld does anymore as I hear it.
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Currently Reading
Fantasy: Moonwise - Greer Gilman
Scholarly: Wizardry & Wild Romance, A Study of Epic Fantasy - Michael Moorcock
Writing:(I'm slacking here)

Submissions out
Flash: 0
Short: 0
Agent: 0

I've Submitted

I just submitted my story "On Fate's Waiting List" to Clarkesworld. They have a 36 hour average response time. I find this is making me more antsy about submitting than normal. Usually I just click send and try to forget about it, but this is going to come back to me so quickly I can't stop thinking about it. Thanksgiving isn't even helping.

Next story for me to work on is my world founding mythology story for Limna, the world in which my novel takes place.

Currently Reading:
Fantasy: Moonwise - Greer Gilman
Scholarly: Wizardry & Wild Romance, A Study of Epic Fantasy - Michael Moorcock
Writing:(I'm slacking here)

Submissions out:
Flash: 0
Short: 1
Agent: 0

Workshoping:

Greater Portland Scribists: Writing Fears

Greater Portland Scribists: Writing Fears: "Former literary agent Nathan Bransford recently posted a question to writers on his blog: “What is your greatest fear as a writer?” I’m goi..."

I havn't abandoned this blog!

But, oh, have I been busy!

I've been working on this special project, and I haven't really talked about it here yet. I believe I mentioned it two months ago (?!?) in my last post. But I thought it was time to formally cross-blog about it.

A couple writer friends and I have put together a group, Greater Portland Scribists, or GPS. We meet weekly (yes that's why I've been so busy), to discuss our group progress, each other's writing and to write. Hopefully by next summer we will be able to produce an anthology ebook of our stuff. In the mean time we are keeping our blog up to date with ebook news and weekly (Wednesday) articles written by us. I just posted yesterday myself. Go read it!

Of course, I'm also still working on getting published in the magazines and will try to publish my novel after it is revised, which I will do after I have a short story published. And my 3 year plan is to become a member of SFWA.

So with all that going on, I've found myself kinda burnt out of my own writing goals. Time to change that. With winter coming, I think I'll be able to look inward and really get what I want, and soon. :)


Currently Reading
Fantasy: Moonwise - Greer Gilman
Scholarly: Wizardry & Wild Romance, A Study of Epic Fantasy - Michael Moorcock
Writing:(I'm slacking here)

Submissions out
Flash: 0
Short: 0
Agent: 0

Workshoping:
On Fate's Waiting List