Rejections
Apr. 27th, 2025 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitI find it profoundly aggravating when I find out a project to which I have submitted has been cancelled not because the publisher made any effort to, like, send me a rejection or anything like that, but because Submissions Grinder helpfully put out a notice on the closed market listing that the publisher has announced the project has been cancelled.
Given the list of recorded rejection notices, it seems like they didn't do this to everyone-- people do seem to have gotten rejected and submitted that rejection to the Grinder-- but "the project has been cancelled" is the sort of thing where you make an effort to make sure you haven't missed anyone. And even if you assume some people didn't go back to the Grinder to update their submission marker with a rejection, I also seem not to be the only person who didn't get any sort of rejection notice.
Really, given the way submitting anywhere completely ties up a story and the number of chances that are anthologies and therefore cannot be held over to the next submission window, you should be making an effort to reject people promptly in any case, but I especially don't like my story sitting out of circulation for a long period of time when there's zero chance that will result in a sale.
Given the list of recorded rejection notices, it seems like they didn't do this to everyone-- people do seem to have gotten rejected and submitted that rejection to the Grinder-- but "the project has been cancelled" is the sort of thing where you make an effort to make sure you haven't missed anyone. And even if you assume some people didn't go back to the Grinder to update their submission marker with a rejection, I also seem not to be the only person who didn't get any sort of rejection notice.
Really, given the way submitting anywhere completely ties up a story and the number of chances that are anthologies and therefore cannot be held over to the next submission window, you should be making an effort to reject people promptly in any case, but I especially don't like my story sitting out of circulation for a long period of time when there's zero chance that will result in a sale.
