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Hi, Scott. Yes, this has happened to me a few times before on Submittable: a wordless rejection.

When it happened, I entered the journal's name in my daily writer's journal with a note to avoid them in future.

Rather unpardonable laziness. I winced reading your note.

I'm so sorry to hear of what we used to call on campus "infra dig." Ouch!

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"Unpardonable laziness" made me smile. Literary magazines, in general, are megafactors better at rejections than literary agents for novel queries. The norm too often in that world is the silence of deep space. A writer may spend three years on a novel and query 10 prospective agents. Hearing back at all from 5 of them, even if all are rejects, is practically a victory.

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Patrick, I am still waiting to hear from NINETEEN indie presses - - - from way back in August 2022 - January 2023 - - - to whom I sent my intriguing and illustrated Hallowe'en poetry collection.

Recently, it has been acquired by a good press.

No, no, I won't be going back to Autumn 2022's list to bother to withdraw my ms.

"Unpardonable laziness" should swing both ways.

Who agrees with me, intrepid lit-magpies?

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Thanks. This was a first for me but I guess it wasn't a glitch or, as I thought: "Maybe they are just waiting to write a nice personal rejection." Hah!

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You can always write Big Wing a nice personal rejection, Scott. (smile)

What a shameful way to treat writers!

Cobras nidificant in cervicalibus suis.

[Old Roman curse: May cobras nest in their pillows.]

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Latin!!! Sexy!!!

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