Rejected again

[feuervogel]

After 3.5 months. I was among the final round of rejections, because people started reporting acceptances immediately afterward. Which is kind of bittersweet. They said I should send it to their regular magazine, which is a token market. I'll do that, if I can't sell it for more money elsewhere.

So it's back out, currently at the Queers Destroy SF issue of Lightspeed (because it's a different editorial team, and they said they'd read stories LS already rejected). After that, there's one more pro market left.

So if anyone knows about a market that wants a political story about disability and class starring a bisexual dock worker in space, let me know.

Comments

[jolantru]

I would say Accessing Disability, but the call for submission closed a while back.

Try Crossed Genres? Clarkesworld?

[feuervogel]

It's been to Clarkesworld already. It has literally been to every pro-paying market except Apex (and Analog, but meh) at this point. I have never had luck at Crossed Genres, and none of their upcoming themes fits, anyway. The resub to Lightspeed is for the QDSF issue, because it's a different editorial team, and they said they'd consider stories already rejected by LS.


ETA: lol, I apparently already had it rejected from CG, too. IIRC it was their cyborg theme.

[feuervogel]

(Accessing the Future is the 3.5-month rejection! I was apparently right that it fit their theme, since they kept it until the final cuts, but they had other stories they liked better, it seems.)

[jolantru]

I would say Accessing Disability, but the call for submission closed a while back.

Try Crossed Genres? Clarkesworld?

[kriski]

your spreadsheet makes mine look cheap and unprofessional ;-)

most of the publications i had didn't pay anything, just an author's copy of the anthology or magazine. and for one of the publications coming up this march, i am even required to pay for my own copy. poetry doesn't pay. over here the money is in reading tours. so i need to get my name out and network and secure a monograph which then supposedly will be marketed by the publisher with a reading tour for which i would be paid. i'm really doing it for the love of doing it. poetry is tricky.

[feuervogel]

I use a website! It's free, but it's only English-language SFF markets, so probably not useful for you.

Good luck to you as well in the quest for publication this year!

[ladyegreen.livejournal.com]

Keep trying!! It's just a matter of the right market at the right time. The talent is there.