More than a decade ago, in my day job, I took a series of customer service workshops offered by Ouellette & Associates. These were among the finest workshops I have ever taken, and at the time, the represented the only time I witnessed a true paradigm shift in our organization’s customer service. There were two…
I think I’m getting back on track in terms of my writing schedule (thanks again to Brad Torgersen’s inspiring post). For the second day in a row I was up before 5am and spent my two hours on two writing-related tasks. First, I organized the scenes in “Rescue” in the order I think they should…
It was so cold yesterday that I didn’t go out to check the mail. That’s pretty remarkable for a writer who lives for the mail. I checked it this morning and found a rejection slip for a story I submitted about two months ago. It was a personal note, detailing why the editor didn’t take…
Kelly finds it amusing that the first thing I do upon arriving home from work is rush off to the mailbox to check for any mail. I’ve tried to explain to her that writers live for the mail, but I’m not quite sure she gets it. Granted, there aren’t a whole lot of science fiction…
I received two story rejections before noon today, and in some ways, they were oddly juxtaposed. The first one was from a professional market to which I have never submitted before. The rejection told me that the story made it past the first cut and went on to detail many of the good points of…
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Yesterday, I got finally got a brief rejection note from Strange Horizons for “The Golden Watch”. It took 49 days from start to finish and that is nearly twice as long as any other story I’ve sent them. I’d like to think it meant I got farther along in the process, but the one-sentence message…
Busy work day on Wednesday, but that’s really no different than every day has been. I noted that my reimbursement from my trip to Santa Monica was deposited yesterday, $2,060. Just in time for me to pay the bill, too. Early in the afternoon, I heard back from Edmund Schubert at InterGalactic Medicine Show on…
I received a rejection slip from Space & Time late last night on my story, “Wake Me When We Get There”. It was the 9th rejection I’d received on that story, which is one of my favorites. It took 90 days from submission to rejection. However, it was also the 3rd “positive” rejection. I know…
On Saturday, I received a rejection from Intergalactic Medicine Show on my story “Wake Me When We Get There”. Edmund Schubert said that he had published a similar story several issues back and so he couldn’t use mine. I must admit that I didn’t go back and read every story in the previous 4 issues…
I queried on my story “Wake Me When We Get There” which had been at
I received a rejection from WEIRD TALES this afternoon for my short short story “Of the Knowledge of Good and Evil”. It seemed kind of form-letterish but it also asked to keep them in mind for future stories. I typically don’t write WEIRD TALES-like stories, but if I do, I’ll send them another one. I…