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

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.
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[identity profile] calendula-witch.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yikes!!!!! Fail!

[identity profile] mouseferatu.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
What the hell?!

Yeah, that's someone who has no interest in a long career...

[identity profile] wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
You'd think getting the story accepted anywhere would get someone over sour grapes!

Sigh. And sympathy.

[identity profile] seductionjunkie.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
WOW. That's someone who got hit by the FAIL bus. HEH.

Learning to accept rejection has GOT to be one of the most necessary and important things to learn as a human being.

[identity profile] frabjousdave.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
I was just having a conversation about such throw-backs this afternoon.

[identity profile] evaleastaristev.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
I am amused. Highly amused. That's something that you say in yor own head, maybe even out loud in your own home, but NEVER send it in to someone who has any control at all over your future career.

Silly goose.

[identity profile] talvinm.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] cuddlycthulhu.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I just don't get responses like that. It's unbelievable to me that people would burn professional relationships like that.

And they never consider that fire spreads.

[identity profile] bondo-ba.livejournal.com 2009-04-16 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. Epic fail. I doubt we'll be seeing this author's name on the best-seller lists anytime soon.
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[personal profile] kyrielle 2009-04-18 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
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Um.

Wow.

On the other hand, he DID get you to publish something of his. *wry*
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