For years, authors have been walking up to me at conventions and declaring, “You rejected me!”
Now I have a proper response in business card form:
And the back side:
For years, authors have been walking up to me at conventions and declaring, “You rejected me!”
Now I have a proper response in business card form:
And the back side:
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Shannon
Ooh! Ooh! I want one! (Or, er, two.) 🙂
Neil Clarke
🙂 I’ll have some with me at Capclave, World Fantasy and Philcon. Will you be at any of those?
Besina
Those are inspired! You realize you’ve started a *thing* now, right? 🙂 Reject me! Must. Have. Card! (Seriously, want card.)
Dan Davis
Perfect! Heading down toward Atlanta any time soon?
Next up: T-shirts? 😉
Neil Clarke
Furthest south I’ll be is Capclave (just outside of DC). SASE is an option for those outside the range of my usual travels.
Actually, we tried to do a t-shirt of this one, but I wasn’t happy with the quality of work from the places I tried.
Samantha Henderson
WANT
Greg Beatty
If I ask nicely, will you send mine to Romney?
Neil Clarke
Not unless he send me a story.
Andrija Popovic
I have this in notebook format from ReaderCon. It’s become my default notebook for conferences.
Neil Clarke
That reminds me… I need to get more of those.
Grayling Fox
Sending SASE tomorrow. I’ll carry it proudly.
Tim Lieder
So I just have to find you at a Con and you have those cards? Sweet.
Do you have one for “Nick gave me an encouraging rejection letter back in the day when he was rejecting stories” – maybe the same one but with a sad hopeful smile?
Paul
I didn’t even get a rejection. I guess my story was so bad even the intern didn’t want to dwell on it.
Neil Clarke
Really? Did you get a confirmation number from our submissions system? Can’t find anything associated with your email address, even when I go back a few years.
Geeta
I am a card carrying member of Clarkesworld now! 😉
But, honestly, your submission system and response times are perhaps one of the best.
Jeff Xilon
They definitely are! Clarkesworld and Lightspeed are the two best magazines I’ve seen when it comes to submitting things and getting a quick response.
Ian D Smith
I have three. gggrrr Should I stop counting? ;->
Halsted M. Bernard
I love this!
Gustavo Bondoni
Brilliant. I absolutely need one of those! Sadly won’t be up to cons this year or next… MAybe I can get one in 2014 (and I will certainly rack up a few more rejections in the meantime!).
Jeff Strand
I need to get rejected ASAP!
John C Wright
Not to be a grammar maven, but if “bearer” is singular, the pronoun should also be singular, because the sentence requires agreement of number.
(If you reject my comment, of course, technically I am entitled to one of your cards.)
Neil Clarke
Yes, you are technically correct. Unfortunately, English lacks an adequate gender-neutral pronoun, so I went with “them.” I’m not alone in finding it an acceptable alternative:
http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/he-or-she-versus-they
Grayson Bray Morris
I’ve given up the fight against “they” as singular third person. It seems clear it’s ultimately going to win, and it honestly is the most elegant of the contenders. (I say this as a longtime “he in one example, she in the next” proponent.) The only thing standing in my way is my 45-year-old “ear”; it just sounds wrong. But I like to think I’m flexible, and I certainly applaud the move to gender-neutral language.