Okay, so, I had a moment at work (well, about an hour's worth of plates) and I'm checking some sites I normally don't check all that often. I go to the Writers of the Future Blog to see if they've announced Second Quarter Writers. Well, the blog quickly runs out, and I hit to see all of June, and there it is. June 1st, finalists announced. I'm not one of them. Am I upset about that? Well, only a little. But what I'm really honkered off about is that it's now June 20th and I still don't have a letter from them!
I mean, if they annouced on June 1st, my guess is the decisions were made late May. Send the damn letters out. So is the blog correct, am I confused about which Qtr my submission is being considered in, or are they sitting on the reject letters? I've done the math a few times, even on my fingers, and I'm pretty sure mine was in 2nd Qtr. It would be awfully nice to know I can send it someplace else now.
Edited 06-21-07 9:00pm Well, I guess there was a reason I was checking to see if they had listed those finalists. When I arrived home, there was the letter postmarked June 19. I received an Honorable Mention (which they say means in the top 10-15% of all entries). So now I have my answers.
Well, at least they've geared back on the SPAM.
3 comments:
Sorry you weren't a finalist. Hon. Mention sounds decent though.
Honorable Mention is decent. I would prefer a sale, though, but I'll take it. I've been a finalist twice in the past two years. So this is a little bit of a let down. On the plus side, out of about nine stories submitted the last four saw two finalists and this Honorable Mention. I think that's a measure that I am improving and learning.
Steve, I think that's a great accomplishment. Congratulations, even if it isn't a full-on sale.
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