I’m finding getting stories published to be somewhat
difficult. Since not every magazine
needs that story about a transgender vampire in a spaceship on a collision
course with a black hole, I thought I’d switch to something more lucrative. It occurred to me that rejection notices are
the one thing every publisher needs lot of, so I thought I’d try my hand at creating
some of those. Here’s what I came up
with:
Rejection Notice #1
We know you haven’t submitted anything to us for
publication, but at ACME Publishing we pride ourselves on an efficient
submission process. Rather than have you
submit your work and make you wait ninety days for the inevitable rejection
notice, we are sending you the rejection in advance. That way, should you decide to submit to us,
you will not have to wait to know the status of your submission.
We wish you the best of luck with submitting your
work elsewhere, where you have an equally hopeless chance that it will ever be
accepted.
Rejection Notice #2
We have decided to pass on your novel
submission. It is said in a writer
should never take a rejection personally, but in this case the rejection is
personal. We hate your guts. As soon as we saw your name attached to this
manuscript, we immediately deleted it from our hard drive without even reading
it. After that, we gave the drive that
received your e-mail a low level format so there was no chance of us ever
opening your attachment again. In fact,
as soon as our head editor learned you had submitted a novel to us, he went
into an uncontrollable rage and began throwing furniture out the window. We
hope you die a horrible death and then burn in Hell for eternity. Have a lousy day.
Rejection Notice #3
We regret informing you we will not be publishing
your story. It simply was not up to our
standards.
You have undoubtedly been told that the worst that
can happen when you submit a story is you get a rejection notice. If only that were true in this case. Your story sucked so bad we have decided to ban
you from submitting any stories to us ever again. Furthermore, we are contacting every
publisher we can think of to arrange a world-wide blacklist of your works. Not only that, but we are retaining a Buddhist
priest. If you are reincarnated as
another writer after you die, he will determine your new identity so we can
blacklist that individual as well.
We wish you luck in your new career field. You will certainly not stink as bad at it as
you do at writing.
Hey Chuck =) If you put up a follow box it would be easier to get your posts to my google reader.
ReplyDeleteYour post cracked me up. I posted a link over on Kindleboards, thought they would enjoy it too. Write some more! :)
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