This is not how you respond to a rejection. Seriously.

[jennifer_brozek]

Subject: Re: Apex Submission

Oh, bullshit on your little X's.

by the way, morons, I just had it accepted elsewhere,
so up your sub-literary tanuity.

jge


This is how you piss off editors... who talk to other editors... who work on other projects.

I've just added another name to my "never work with (again)" list and I'm passing his response on to all of the other Apex submission editors.

Comments

[talvinm.livejournal.com]

Mark it with the Red Pen and send it back.

"Your letter has been rejected for a lack of capitalization and the use of the word 'tanuity', which I am unable to find in the dictionary. Google suggests 'tenuity', which relates to 'tenuous', which suggests some interesting connotations that nonetheless do not seem relevant to your message.

"Please rewrite and resubmit your hate-mail, and we will consider it.

"Regards, [etc.]"

*yawns* Great one to wake up to in the morning, btw.

[jennifer-brozek.livejournal.com]

I would but I'm not John Scalzi. He already did it and better than I could, I suspect.