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Time to test Facebook again -- Alfreda update
So, we haven't talked about it for some time, because it was depressing, but remember that submission YEARS ago? (Yes, a lot of people are taking that long to respond to submissions. Which is one of two reasons why no one will die over this.)
Found out this weekend that the editor never received the submission. Now, my agent uses a messenger service, where they show up with a package and someone at the desk or the mail room signs for things, right? Somewhere between that point and the editor, it disappeared.
We are going with this because at this point it does not matter if a lowly clerk misplaced it or what -- the glitch has been found. I wasn't at my healthiest when the original submission went in, so now is in many ways better. That is the second reason no one will die over this.
The important part is -- the editor still wants to see the partial. Which is now larger, despite my being depressed about the project and working on other things. So -- polished up the copy editing on five chapters, FedExed to agent, who read, put together with previous two books, and sent over to the editor. I am quite confident he will be double-checking personally on this, not trusting to a signature on a form. I'm sure that like me he feels that this was the Mercury Retrograde glitch of the career, and Shall Not Be Repeated.
And -- just to make sure the editor knows I Was Not Kidding About Submitting, I packed up a copy of the chapbook with the Allie story "Ducks" in it to arrive on Friday.
You may now cross your toes and get back to whatever I interrupted. Be thinking up blurbs for Fires of Nuala -- or go write a review for it!
Found out this weekend that the editor never received the submission. Now, my agent uses a messenger service, where they show up with a package and someone at the desk or the mail room signs for things, right? Somewhere between that point and the editor, it disappeared.
We are going with this because at this point it does not matter if a lowly clerk misplaced it or what -- the glitch has been found. I wasn't at my healthiest when the original submission went in, so now is in many ways better. That is the second reason no one will die over this.
The important part is -- the editor still wants to see the partial. Which is now larger, despite my being depressed about the project and working on other things. So -- polished up the copy editing on five chapters, FedExed to agent, who read, put together with previous two books, and sent over to the editor. I am quite confident he will be double-checking personally on this, not trusting to a signature on a form. I'm sure that like me he feels that this was the Mercury Retrograde glitch of the career, and Shall Not Be Repeated.
And -- just to make sure the editor knows I Was Not Kidding About Submitting, I packed up a copy of the chapbook with the Allie story "Ducks" in it to arrive on Friday.
You may now cross your toes and get back to whatever I interrupted. Be thinking up blurbs for Fires of Nuala -- or go write a review for it!
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LIkely a clerk who was lazy or absent-minded.
OTOH, you manuscript may have been transformed into a script for some obscure TV episode.
(That happened to an old buddy of mine.)
Best of fortune with the major sale!
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The Ace mailroom used to lose stuff going in both directions, including acceptance letters. I think mailrooms are cursed. I hope they bump you to the top of the pile to make up for it.
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