That Complex Feeling

[kiya]

There is nothing quite so simultaneously encouraging and discouraging as a rejection letter in which the editor makes it clear that a) they loved the story and b) they could not manage to wedge it into the book.

'Tis a time for near misses, I suppose; yesterday's form rejection was in the mode of "You made it to a later round and we stared at it a lot but sorry, no."

Comments

[hrj]

Yeah, having been on the editorial side of that (for my podcast's fiction series) it's rather tough (but less personal) from that angle, too. I'd rather reject things that clearly aren't suitable and accept all the ones I love.