Calle, congratulations on your successful transfer of technology. From what I can tell, you've hitched us into a very sleek system of management that even my computer wimp brain can easily understand. (Watch me fumble the system after saying that... <g> ) Thank you for your continued list leadership.
Now back to our regular programming... (With apologies for taking so long to share some comments) Julia wrote:
I know how frustrating it is to not get a reply, especially when this keeps happening. However, as Tavia has already pointed out, you are *not* obliged to leave the piece with an editor until that editor responds. You can formally withdraw it, and send it elsewhere.
I wanted to add that when I've not had a reply from editor, it's always meant she/he has accepted the story and plans to use it. What usually happens in those cases is that the editor read the story and liked it, but was waiting to respond until he/she actually got to edits. However, real life being what it is, the editor didn't get to edits as quickly as he/she thought would happen. So response to the story took a very long time.
Once I realized that I should assume my stories were accepted, I didn't mind not hearing back. (And when there were no edits involved, there were a couple of occasions when I didn't hear anything until my tribs arrived in my mailbox.) But I can understand how lack of a response would be very fretful for a beginner.
After all, the Americans manage to produce zines, and they don't speak British English either
And thank goodness for that. Someone has to maintain standards for the language. We've "gotten" to where we Yanks have had to assume that responsibility. ;-)
Carol Mc