Aliette de Bodard ([info]aliettedb) wrote,
@ 2008-04-13 23:02:00
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Current mood: busy

Weekend
Moving stuff (amazing the number of books you can accumulate over your teenage + university years...). Writing a bit. Editing a bit.
I officially hate synopses, especially the one-page variety in Courier New.

I think I'm going to bed.




-a 40-day very nice rejection from SH on "They Come Bearing Gifts", basically saying that the story wasn't in the right tone for them (too melodramatic, a fact I suspected before sending it to them) but that it was still very engaging and one of their favourites they had seen from me.
-a 30-day rejection from Asimov's on "Tribe-Soul, God-Soul": the story was "sweet and very well-written, but not quite original enough for me". Fair enough.

My submissions stock is depleted; I need to send batches out, but the agent hunt is starting to be a bit time-consuming...

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[info]david_de_beer
2008-04-13 10:30 pm UTC (link)
yoh, too melodramatic is not something I would have expected from SH; they verily bathe in the melodrama sometimes.

how long does Asimovs normally take? I have a sub there too (or is supposed to have one there).

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[info]aliettedb
2008-04-14 04:42 am UTC (link)
It's hard to qualify, but I knew the story in question had the wrong kind of melodrama (too upbeat I think is the closest I can get to it).

With me, Asimov's has never taken more than 4 months (and that was because my sub got forgotten on Sheila Williams's desk for a while, and she apologised for it. My average return time tends to be around one month.

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