From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 10/2/15 4:08 PM, C. E. Gee wrote:   
   > I've encountered a situation with a magazine that I've never experienced   
   before.  This is despite the fact that I've been submitting stories to SF mags   
   since 1997!   
   >   
   > April 20 of 2015 I submitted a story to Ideomancer.  The submission was   
   within their stated March-April reading period.   
   >   
   > Market sources Ralans, The Black hole, The Grinder publish that Ideomancer's   
   average response time is a little over 30 days with a maximum of 50 days.   
   >   
   > So, a little more than 120 days since my submission to them, I'd not heard   
   anything.   
   >   
   > I wrote Ideomancer a query - no response.   
   >   
   > About a month later I wrote that if I heard nothing from Ideomancer by this   
   coming Monday, I was withdrawing the story.   
   >   
   > DID I DO THE RIGHT THING ?????????????????????????????????????   
   >   
   > I've already dismissed one professional level magazine -- ANALOG   
   >   
   > Analog once sat on a story of mine for seven months (7 months!!) before   
   rejecting it.   
      
   	Took two years for one publisher to decide not to take a book of mine.   
   This being after I had been published multiple times. So... you lack   
   patience.   
      
      
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