I regularly read and review On Spec: The Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic and also follow them online. It’s a great magazine. Today I received an interesting communication about why stories get rejected with a link to this article by editor Barb Galler-Smith.
Why Stories Get Rejected (Even Good Ones)
The email which conveyed this to me mentioned that in their recent open submissions period – which wasn’t long – On Spec received 500 stories. 500! I have the current issue at hand and it contains just 7 stories. You can see why so many are rejected.
Depressing. On the other hand, if you do sell a story somewhere – anywhere – remind yourself that it isn’t easy and feel free to be glad. There’s a lot of competition out there.
Eamonn Murphy
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