podcastle (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} podcastle) wrote, |
Thanks for the clarification!
back when we were reading very quickly and rejecting stories within a day or two people would fire back immediately with whatever story they had that was under 4000 words. Often they wouldn't even bother composing a new email with a new subject heading; they'd just hit Reply, attach a new file (making our previous rejection letter their new cover letter!) and submit the new story seconds later.
Our response times are really fast right now--subs I don't pass up to Rachel usually get rejected the same day they come in, next day at the latest. So we get this too, down to hitting reply and not changing the subject line. We don't get the nitpicking about guidelines, since we don't have a limit, but we get some other, odd approaches to stuff in the guidelines.
It's not a huge amount of people doing it, and it's honestly only a minor annoyance, but annoyance it is. I suspect that since you pay more than we do, you get a much larger volume of subs (and yes, a larger volume of unprofessional subs), and I don't make a point of giving everyone a note, which makes it easier for me to clear out the box. But I admit, there are some submitters that leave me wondering just how many fantasy stories they have in stock, and when they're going to run out. Being a reprint market doesn't mean people don't send us their unpublished trunk stories, and since our policy is that we might occasionally buy a non-reprint, well, a given submitter might have a nearly endless string of stories to send. Fortunately, it's really not that many and hasn't clogged the box up too much. Yet. We'll see what happens after the first episode airs.
But we've gotten a fair few who just didn't seem to know what they were doing, including some who really ought to have known better, to judge from their credits. Those mystify me.
back when we were reading very quickly and rejecting stories within a day or two people would fire back immediately with whatever story they had that was under 4000 words. Often they wouldn't even bother composing a new email with a new subject heading; they'd just hit Reply, attach a new file (making our previous rejection letter their new cover letter!) and submit the new story seconds later.
Our response times are really fast right now--subs I don't pass up to Rachel usually get rejected the same day they come in, next day at the latest. So we get this too, down to hitting reply and not changing the subject line. We don't get the nitpicking about guidelines, since we don't have a limit, but we get some other, odd approaches to stuff in the guidelines.
It's not a huge amount of people doing it, and it's honestly only a minor annoyance, but annoyance it is. I suspect that since you pay more than we do, you get a much larger volume of subs (and yes, a larger volume of unprofessional subs), and I don't make a point of giving everyone a note, which makes it easier for me to clear out the box. But I admit, there are some submitters that leave me wondering just how many fantasy stories they have in stock, and when they're going to run out. Being a reprint market doesn't mean people don't send us their unpublished trunk stories, and since our policy is that we might occasionally buy a non-reprint, well, a given submitter might have a nearly endless string of stories to send. Fortunately, it's really not that many and hasn't clogged the box up too much. Yet. We'll see what happens after the first episode airs.
But we've gotten a fair few who just didn't seem to know what they were doing, including some who really ought to have known better, to judge from their credits. Those mystify me.
