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Drexel Online Journal

Wed, 09/17/2003 - 10:42am — eddycurrents

I love this:

Effective Immediately:
Please note a change in policy regarding rejection notices: If you do not hear from us within six weeks of submitting, you can assume that we are unable to use your material(Drunk.

I used to think there was nothing worse than a form letter rejection. These guys can't even be bothered to do that.

Plus it's an electronic submission. All they have to do is: copy, paste, send.

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Wed, 03/17/2004 - 11:04pm — EHardage

Re:Drexel Online Journal

Ralan.com actually recommends not to send anything to Drexel--they have extremely long response times (when they can be bothered to respond at all. What a tacky note!) and are notorious for losing manuscripts.

If you've got anything with them, I'd go ahead and send it to another market. You can always write Drexel a "sorry, this has already been bought by another publisher" letter. I know a lot of pubs frown on simultaneous submissions, but when one of the markets has a rep for not ever responding, I think it's okay.

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