Science Fiction Writers Workshop

A look into the minds of the marketplace gods who refused you entry into the published world.

Unlock the portal at http://mzbworks.home.att.net/why.htm

A Rosetta's Stone for the obscure comments written on rejection slips at http://mzbworks.home.att.net/transed.htm

Ok, so this doesn't directly apply to this group, but so what. I'm a guy who is inclusive, not exclusive.

Dell publishes children's books, among other things, and they've become so high and mighty (not from my own personal experience, yet, anyway) that the editors will no longer even reply to the masses they reject every year. If you hear nothing after four or five months, it's ASSUMED to be a rejection.

Now, come on, I know this is a business, but geez. Talk about a total lack of human decency. How hard is it to stuff a form rejection in a enevelope the SUBMITTER provides. Guess they don't want to waste that slip of paper.

Here's the big one:

http://www.rejectioncollection.com/

Of course, our board is more personal. Post here instead.