From: thelastearthman@gmail.com   
      
   I average about six rejections per story before it's accepted.  The range is   
   zero rejections to 17 rejections.   
      
   And I've come to realize that magazine editors are shockingly subjective in   
   their analysis of any particular story.   
      
   Now I'm not going to name the magazine or the story, but I had an experience   
   with a rejection that made me realize that some editors haven't a clue.   
      
   When said editor rejected the above-mentioned story, a number of reasons for   
   the the rejection were given.  All of the reasons were ridiculously invalid.    
   But one of the reasons that really struck me as absurd was:   
      
   The story included a passage where the daughter, who was in her late teens or   
   perhaps early twenties and who lived at home with her parents entered the   
   house WITHOUT KNOCKING! The editor rebuked me for this item.   
      
   I've raised a couple of kids, as have most of my friends and relatives.  All   
   their kids enter without knocking, even the ones who no longer live with the   
   parents.   
      
   Plus all the houses I've lived in as an adult had doorbells.  The story takes   
   place a couple hundred years from now.  And the people have no doorbell?   
      
   Sheesh.   
      
   Said editor also made a comment about an android who's motors were not running   
   when the android was standing still.  The editor never heard of the   
   conservation of power in battery operated devices?  Or of stepper motors?   
      
   Again, sheesh.   
      
   Up 'til now said magazine was high up on my submissions list.  I'm going to   
   drop it down a ways.   
      
   Thanks for letting me vent.   
      
   NAMASTE   
      
   C.E. Gee   aka Chuck   
      
   http://www.kinzuaid.blogspot,com   
      
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