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Unread 03-04-2017, 01:54 PM
James Brancheau James Brancheau is offline
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I think if they accept simultaneous submissions, John, it's not a big deal. I send out once or twice a year, a handful, then forget about it. This seems obsessive. Do your thing and make sure the places you like see it. Separate yourself from the need to be recognized. I've been there, and I still love to be recognized. But it's not why you write.
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Also, most magazines have a particular vision of what to put together for the next issue. So, you have to be great and timely.
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Oh, I don't fret about this too much, just venting a little with those similarly frustrated or bemused.
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This is my favorite poem about po' biz: "The Honor" by Denis Johnson.

The link is to Denis Johnson's Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly at Amazon. (There's a direct link to the book but not to the poem.)

The poem is on p. 190 of the book. With the Look Inside! option, you can click directly from Table of Contents to poem.

https://www.amazon.com/Throne-Nation.../dp/0060926961
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I beg pardon for bumping up this thread, but I just have to add this story. A Facebook friend--and onetime Sphere member, as it happens--reports that he recently received in the mail a reply to a submission he made in *2003.* The reply was addressed to him "or his family," apparently on the assumption that he might have died in the interim. The editors had the sense to add the twelve cents in postage made necessary by postal increases during that time.

No explanation was given except to say that the editors had found the submission while going through some old papers.

I really do think this should hold some kind of record.
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Like library books returned from 1943.

There is a certain charm to the journal's integrity in their reply--
can only smile at this one.
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So... did they accept it?
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So... did they accept it?
Well, no.

I realize in hindsight that I'm only assuming the journal remains in operation after all this time. It seems likely that "going through old papers" would happen because they folded. But that's a guess.
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