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Eight months ago next week, I shipped off my submission to -- well, to the place I sent it to. I sent it registered and got the receipt. So they got it.
Two months ago I wrote an inquiry asking about it. Not asking for a decision, just asking where it was in the process.
A month ago I sent an email following up on it.
Excuse me while I indulge in a few moments of author insanity.
I've been told over and over that no, editors don't withold information like this because they're appalled at the low quality, offensive content, or bad formatting of a manuscript (none of which, I am pretty sure, apply anyway), or because they are avoiding the personality of the author. I've been told that they just do what they do when they do it, having to do with the other obligations they have. But. How hard is it just to tell me whether the thing is still in the slush pile, or being read, or being processed for acceptance or rejection? They've got stamped envelopes with my address on them -- plural, yes, because they've got the ones I sent them four years ago and three years ago for the other manuscript they never read.
I just don't want to be a posthumous author, okay?
Two months ago I wrote an inquiry asking about it. Not asking for a decision, just asking where it was in the process.
A month ago I sent an email following up on it.
Excuse me while I indulge in a few moments of author insanity.
I've been told over and over that no, editors don't withold information like this because they're appalled at the low quality, offensive content, or bad formatting of a manuscript (none of which, I am pretty sure, apply anyway), or because they are avoiding the personality of the author. I've been told that they just do what they do when they do it, having to do with the other obligations they have. But. How hard is it just to tell me whether the thing is still in the slush pile, or being read, or being processed for acceptance or rejection? They've got stamped envelopes with my address on them -- plural, yes, because they've got the ones I sent them four years ago and three years ago for the other manuscript they never read.
I just don't want to be a posthumous author, okay?
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