My reading skills suck.

[kaigou]

Note to self: pay attention to the phrase not interested in urban fantasy and stop reading so fast.

*heddesk*

What magazines (or other short story venues) still exist that cater to the urban fantasy genre? It seems they're all dropping like flies with each new day...

Also: I had a file that listed where I'd submitted stories, and which story, and I lost that file when the hard drive went south. (I lost a lot of stuff, of which this one small file is among the least of the lingering agony, but still.) I know the names of which magazines I'd submitted to, but not who got which story, and I had two or three that I'd sent out. Bloody hell, I don't even have the original emails anymore that were rejections from each, because I lost all my email at the same time. Sigh.

Oh ye mighty slush readers, maybe you can answer this: are stories tracked? It would have been at least a year, maybe a little more, since any were submitted, but I'd hate to resubmit ignorantly and/or inadvertently. Or if I do accidentally repeat myself, has it been long enough that it wouldn't be taken as an intentional, and thus rude, thing to do? GUH.

Comments

[muffiewrites.livejournal.com]

My slush pile has no trackage on it. My slush pile is usually filled with total crap that is "published." My other slush pile has no trackage on it, either. It's a little magazine. It doesn't track, either.

Some places do, but only for so long. The do encourage resubmission. What you can do is dust off all the copies and make changes, that way if you're resubmitting to a magazine, and the editor remembers it, then it's possible they might see how it has been altered. If you can improve the first page, that's a good start. Slush rejects happen most often there.

Personally, I keep hard copy because simultaneous submissions can lead to blackballing in incestuous sized writing circles. I have a list of magazines, submissions, and dates that I do in excel that I print off every time I update it. Well, I write the reject date on it rather than reprint the whole thing. Breaking oneself of anal retentiveness isn't pretty.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

One of the stories I think does need rewriting to smooth out the start, but the other... well, it's just an oddball, and it's gotten good feedback but unfortunately only from folks who slush-read for other genres (or for shorter fiction).

On the other hand, there's no chance of simultaneous submissions, not at all. The two or three stories would have all been flipped back at me -- it's just that I don't recall who flipped what. I guess I'll have to go with "maybe if it's been a year or more, they'll have forgotten"... sigh.