From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   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 ?????????????????????????????????????   
   >   
   For 4.5 months, I would say it isn't a wrong thing.  If you did it, it   
   was right for you.   
      
   > 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.  Not a word from them about sitting on the story.   
   >   
   They've had something of mine for a couple months.  I've rewritten it   
   since then into a longer version I like a lot better then edited it   
   into the most it can become and I'd welcome a form rejection slip now,   
   so I can send it someplace else, but what can I do.   
      
   > In this day of scores and scores of SF magazines competing for publishable   
   > stories, can any magazine afford to tick off writers?   
   >   
   I don't think they compete for our stories.  They still reject our   
   publishable stories.   
      
   > I dislike removing Ideomancer from my submissions list.  It's a decent   
   > magazine.  And it's online, which is what I favor, print magazines being a   
   > dying breed.  But I'm currently inclined to remove Ideomancer from my   
   > submissions list.   
   >   
   > There MIGHT be an unusual factor involved here.   
   >   
   You want to make sure you don't have a spam filter that keeps their   
   response out of your mailbox.   
      
   > As far as I can detect, about 80% of Ideomancer's staff is female.   
   >   
   > I randomly checked several back issues of Ideomancer, found that about the   
   > same percentage of stories published recently were written by females.   
   >   
   If that's what they want to do with their ezine, you gotta accept that   
   and move on.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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