Well, I finally succumbed to your suggestion to get a username (instead of continuing to quip off-blog...heh.) Since I also write for periodicals (several major ones), I'd say your advice holds there too. The turn-around can be just as long as books, because mags have "seasons" and the lead time can be from six-nine months. Send in a cool Christmas suggestion to a major monthly in October, and you're just about *guaranteed* not to hear back until the following August. Just last June I finally got an acceptance on a query I sent 21 months before. Yes, that's TWENTY-ONE---nearly two years. It's why I've always advised to send out a query and let it go. Just walk away and work on the next thing. My ideas file bulges. I have no shortage of ideas and having one sitting out there with the right editor for months and months doesn't harm me in the least. Heck, I'm STILL sitting on a poor lonely fan-fic novel that no one will ever buy because the series closed. Sigh...
Nice to be here, BTW. I've been spreading the word on your great insights! :)
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Date: 2006-03-09 09:14 pm (UTC)Well, I finally succumbed to your suggestion to get a username (instead of continuing to quip off-blog...heh.) Since I also write for periodicals (several major ones), I'd say your advice holds there too. The turn-around can be just as long as books, because mags have "seasons" and the lead time can be from six-nine months. Send in a cool Christmas suggestion to a major monthly in October, and you're just about *guaranteed* not to hear back until the following August. Just last June I finally got an acceptance on a query I sent 21 months before. Yes, that's TWENTY-ONE---nearly two years. It's why I've always advised to send out a query and let it go. Just walk away and work on the next thing. My ideas file bulges. I have no shortage of ideas and having one sitting out there with the right editor for months and months doesn't harm me in the least. Heck, I'm STILL sitting on a poor lonely fan-fic novel that no one will ever buy because the series closed. Sigh...
Nice to be here, BTW. I've been spreading the word on your great insights! :)