Two email submissions of “Bringing up Bobby” went out tonight. I’ll send a snail-mail submission to a third market tomorrow. I’d thought I had five possible markets but I had to drop two from my list. One hasn’t updated its web site since September, which makes me wonder if it’s still publishing. The other states that it is looking for “dark” fantasy, which does not remotely describe this story. Don’t know how I missed that the first time I looked at the submission guidelines.
If all three of these markets pass, I’ll have to start looking at markets that specify “no simultaneous submissions.” That’s frustrating, of course, since so many markets take forever to respond, but if that’s what it takes, c’est la vie.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Nikki // Jul 23, 2008 at 4:29 am
Hey Sam-
I say send your work to those no simu markets anyway. Unless their guidelines say they’ll have word to you in under three months you dont stand to lose really. Of course it sounds like you’re quite good so you could have a couple of acceptances…if only I had such problems. (:
-Nikki
(fellow Gup)
2 Sam // Jul 23, 2008 at 6:31 am
Thanks, Nikki. I’ve thought of doing “stealth” simultaneous submissions from time to time, but haven’t had the guts to try it yet. I doubt I’ll have to worry about simultaneous acceptances, though!
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